From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: using a symbol from the wasy physics symbol set
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:46:38 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.999.0706282333560.3712@nqvgln> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r6nvv5q0.fsf@stanford.edu>
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Jesse Alama wrote:
> I'd like to use the symbol varangle from the wasy physics symbol set.
> In my file I've got
>
> \usesymbols[was]
> \showsymbolset[wasy physics]
>
> $\symbol[varangle]$
>
> In the PDF that's generated, I see the symbols in the wasy physics
> symbol set just fine, but following the symbol set table, I just see an
> OE ligature glyph. What might be going on?
You should not use it in math mode. Or if you want to use it in math
mode surround it with \text{...}
> And is there any way I can
> use
>
> \varangle
>
> rather than
>
> \symbol[varangle]
The easiest way is to
\def\varangle{\text{\symbol[varangle]}}
A more robust method may be
\definemathcommand [varangle] [\text{\symbol[varangle]}]
Aditya
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