[NTG-context] Re: Number in a circle

[Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>]

Am 27.05.24 um 19:20 schrieb Kip Warner:
> On Mon, 2024-05-27 at 07:09 +0200, Ryszard Kubiak wrote:
>> Hi Kip,
>>
>> You may try characters with Unicode slots from U+2460 upto U+2469.
>> They mean circled digits and are available in many fonts.
> 
> Thanks Ryszard. Those would be perfect, except I can't get them to work
> in ConTeXt. I tried using the \utfchar{0x2460} but it just displays the
> number 1.
> 
> I am assuming it needs a font that supports it, but I'm not sure how to
> switch to a supporting font just to typeset that character and then
> revert back. Is there some way to define a macro?

You could just define a fallback font, like:

\definefontfallback[SymbolFB]
   [file:symbola.otf]
   [0x00300-0x003FF,0x02100-0x02800,0x1F000-0x20000] % look up the right 
Unicode ranges!
   [check=no,force=no]

\definetypeface [myfonts] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] 
[fallbacks=SymbolFB]

And then copy the character from a symbol table, no need for a macro.

Hraban
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