Re: \Asterisk

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 23 May 2008, Jesse Alama wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was working on a document in which I wanted use a symbol that,
>>>>> acording to the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, goes by the name of
>>>>> \Asterisk or \bigast (see p. 22).  I saw, though, that this seems to be
>>>>> missing in ConTeXt.  Might it be tucked away in some module, or is it
>>>>> just absent?  If it's really not there, what would it take to add it?
>>>>
>>>> The latex symbol list says that these are from the mathabx font. AFAIK,
>>>> this font is not currently supported by ConTeXt. Adding support should be
>>>> doable, but I am not sure what is the best way to support it. I do
>>>> not know if this family is a complete replacement for CM (and LM) fonts,
>>>> or only some symbols are provided.
>>>>
>>>> I am travelling right now, and I can play around with these fonts sometime
>>>> next week. The font claims to provide plain tex support, so it should be
>>>> usable out of the box. You can try
>>>>
>>>> \input mathabx
>>>>
>>>> $\Asterix$
>>>
>>> What is with Obelix?
>>>
>>>> and see if this works with plain tex and ConTeXt.
>>>>
>>>> Only the metafont files are available, I do not know if someone
>>>> has created a type1 version.
>>>
>>> Why so complicated, * did also work with Latin Modern and the other fonts.
>>>
>>> I prefer \definesymbol [asterisk] [\char"2A\relax] and \symbol{asterisk},
>>> you're way is also possible but
>>> \startencoding[default]
>>> \definecharacter Asterisk \char"2A
>>> \stopencoding
>>> is also possible.
>>
>> Asterix is like a big asterix (similar to \bigstar vs \star, and \bigtimes
>> vs \times, maybe it shold be called \bigasterix)
>
> I found \asterisk and \Asterisk in the manual but no \Asterix.
>
>>> The unicode chart show a few more asterisk variatione in the dingbats section:
>>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf
>>
>> I will check that.
>
> The chart contains only dingbats symbols but there is also a mathematical
> asterisk in the next chart.
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf --> 2217

That looks like a normal asterisk to me. See \Asterisk on page 22 of 
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=comprehensive

Aditya
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