Re: [NTG-context] how to insert symbols into document?

Am 13.04.2015 um 01:29 schrieb Csikos Bela :

Hello context users:

I would like to insert symbols into my document, especially black-diamond and losenge symbols. I read symbols page at contextgarden but still don't know how to do it.

I also tried \showsymbolset[was] etc but the symbols but I did not find these (and many other symbols either) in the output pages.

I found that symb-imp-mis.mkiv file defines this symbol (line 49) but I don't know how to make it show. Do I have to load specific symbol fonts? If yes how can I find out which font has the given symbols?

What I tried so far included:

% begin code \usesymbols[imp-mis] \starttext

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\blackdiamond

\symbol [blackdiamond] % end code

None of these show anything.

The symbols in the file symb-imp-mis.mkiv are loaded by default because context uses them for the itemise environment but a few of them have to be enabled before you can use them and even then you need a font which contains them, e.g. DejaVu. %%%% begin example \setupbodyfont[dejavu] \setupsymbolset[text] \starttext \starttabulate[|l|c|] \NC \bf Name \NC \bf Symbol \NC\NR \TB \NC bullet \NC \symbol [bullet] \NC\NR \NC dash \NC \symbol [dash] \NC\NR \NC star \NC \symbol [star] \NC\NR \NC triangle \NC \symbol [triangle] \NC\NR \NC circle \NC \symbol [circle] \NC\NR \NC square \NC \symbol [square] \NC\NR \NC diamond \NC \symbol [diamond] \NC\NR \TB \NC blacktriangle \NC \symbol [blacktriangle] \NC\NR \NC blacksquare \NC \symbol [blacksquare] \NC\NR \NC blackdiamond \NC \symbol [blackdiamond] \NC\NR \TB \NC 1 \NC \symbol [1] \NC\NR \NC 2 \NC \symbol [2] \NC\NR \NC 3 \NC \symbol [3] \NC\NR \NC 4 \NC \symbol [4] \NC\NR \NC 5 \NC \symbol [5] \NC\NR \NC 6 \NC \symbol [6] \NC\NR \NC 7 \NC \symbol [7] \NC\NR \NC 8 \NC \symbol [8] \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext %%%% end example When you need characters like the mentioned losenge you should better look for a font which contains it and create a new typeface for it or set a fallback font which add the characters to the main font of your document. Wolfgang