On Wed, 28 May 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 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.
Asterix is like a big asterix (similar to \bigstar vs \star, and \bigtimes vs \times, maybe it shold be called \bigasterix) > The unicode chart show a few more asterisk variatione in the dingbats section: > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf I will check that. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________