On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
The unicode chart show a few more asterisk variatione in the dingbats section:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf
>> PS Is there such a thing for ConTeXt as the Comprehensive Symbol List
>> for LaTex?
>
> Not as organized as the Comprehensive Symbol List, but quite useful
> nonetheless
>
> \showmathcharacters
>
> mkiv has another mechanism (s-???) whose name I do not remember at the
> moment.
It makes sense to take first a look at the unicode charts if the character has
a representation in the list and choose a font (e.g. Unicode.otf) with
the symbol.
Wolfgang
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