From: Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Diamond, and Unicode math symbols
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 10:13:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nc0mk5$65n$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E33138.5030704@wxs.nl>
On 2016-03-11 20:57:28 +0000, Hans Hagen said:
> On 3/11/2016 9:18 PM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote:
>>
>> I could not find a diamond on p. 112 in my version of the
>> comprehensive symbol list, but maybe:
>>
>> \definefontfamily[myface][rm][TeX Gyre Pagella]
>> \definefallbackfamily[myface][mm][Xits][range={"025C7}]
>> \definefontfamily[myface][mm][TeX Gyre Pagella Math]
>>
>> \setupbodyfont[myface]
>>
>> \starttext
>> You could try $⋄\quad ⃟ $ from Pagella or $◇$ from Xits.
>> \stoptext
>>
>> There is a nice document, unicode-symbols.pdf you can have a look in
>> for a list of (unicode) math symbols.
>
> there are s-math-*.mkiv files that can generate all kind of lists
>
> you can run s-mkiv-repertoire.mkiv to get a comparison (at the end of
> the file you can see how)
>
> % list here (some 8 fonts) that you have on your system:
>
> \showmathcharacterssetbodyfonts{lucidaot,cambria,xits,modern,pagella,termes,bonum,schola,dejavu}
>
>
> \starttext
>
> \setupbodyfont[pagella, 12pt]
>
> \showmathfontrepertoire
>
> \stoptext
>
> you can click around (on a decent high res screen)
Hans, Mikael, thanks for your suggestions, all of them valuable.
Borrowing the symbol from Xits is a fine solution.
The comparison tables come in very handy, too.
Thanks again,
Nicola
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 21:00 Nicola
2016-03-11 19:03 ` Nicola
2016-03-11 19:56 ` Hans Hagen
2016-03-11 20:18 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2016-03-11 20:57 ` Hans Hagen
2016-03-12 9:13 ` Nicola [this message]
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