Re: Laundry symbols (now: altered picture)

["Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o." <LPr@pontex.cz>]

... OK, much clearer now.

Thanks for explanation.

Best regards,

Lukas


On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:06:28 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Am 05.06.2012 um 17:13 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.:
>
>> Thank you, Wolfgang.
>>
>> Two more questions, hope there'll be no more about this stuff.
>>
>> On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:01:28 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> \usesymbols[mvs]
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> \symbol[martinvogel 2][ShortForty]
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> \usesymbols[mvs]
>>>
>>> \setupsymbolset[martinvogel 2]
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> \symbol[ShortForty]
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> Wolfgang
>>
>> - How to scale the desired symbol, e.g. 5 times? I played with "scale" somehow, but no effect.
>
> It scales with the current font size.
>
> \usesymbols[mvs]
>
> \setupsymbolset[martinvogel 2]
>
> \starttext
> \symbol[ShortForty] {\tfd\symbol[ShortForty]}
> \stoptext
>
>> - Where the symbol set name "martinvogel 2" comes from? Is it a name "built in" the font file?
>
> The symbols are defined in symb-imp-mvs.mkiv, with \usesymbols[…] you load the file.
>
>> - - Is "2" part of the name or does it mean something, e.g. a factor?
>
> The symbols are just put in named groups and “martinvogel 2” is the name of one of these groups (there is also “martinvogel 1”, don’t know how created these names).
>
>
> When you define a symbol you can set the name as
>
>    \definesymbol[<name>]{<symbol>}
>
> or out it in a category with
>
>    \definesymbol[<category>][<name>]{<symbol>}
>
>
> When you have many symbols which you want to put in a category you can say
>
>    \startsymbolset [<category>]
>
>    \definesymbol[<name 1>]{<symbol 1>}
>    \definesymbol[<name 2>]{<symbol 2>}
>
>    \stopsymbolset
>
> and omit the first argument. To print a symbol from this symbolset you have to write
>
>    \symbol[<category>][<name>]
>
> but when you add
>
>    \setupsymbolset[<category>]
>
> to your document ConTeXt will search in this symbol set even when you write only
>
>    \symbol[<name>]
>
> Wolfgang


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