Re: [NTG-context] How to use musical symbols from a font

2010-04-29 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hi, Thanks, Willi, for the idea, but I cannot get it to work. My version of the script \starttext \definefontsynonym[Wingdings][Wingdings.ttf] \definesymbol[box][\getglyph{Wingdings}{\char113}] %\def\Check% % {{\tfa\symbol[box]}} \symbol[box] \stoptext gives the following error (I have

Re: [NTG-context] How to use musical symbols from a font

2010-04-29 Thread Willi Egger
Apparently the font is not found. So make sure that TeX can find the font. Probably you need to check whether the OSFONTDIR is set correctly. Otherwise copy the to a place e.g. texmf-local en run luatools --generate. I hop this helps. Willi On 29 Apr 2010, at 21:53, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

Re: [NTG-context] How to use musical symbols from a font

2010-04-29 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
A-ha! The solution that file name should be wingding.ttf versus wingdings.ttf. OSFONTDIR is ok, my installer sets it properly :) Thanks for help. works perfectly. I only cannot understand what the following do: \def\Check% {{\tfa\symbol[box]}} Apparently the font is not found. So make

Re: [NTG-context] How to use musical symbols from a font

2010-04-28 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, The approach to using symbols could be done along the following line: \definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr] \definesymbol[box][\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char113}] \def\Check% {{\tfa\symbol[box]}} Willi On 27 Apr 2010, at 23:35, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hi, I want to use musical

[NTG-context] How to use musical symbols from a font

2010-04-27 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hi, I want to use musical symbols (e.g. rest) in my documents. I have MusicalSymbols.ttf font, and know that the rest is, say r symbol. How to make a macro that will place this symbol and possibly crop it? -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky