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Hello again, Stefan. I'm not exactly sure why I'm doing this, but I'm learning a lot in the process... Stefan Wachter said this at Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:50:31 +0200:
\definesymbol[whatever][\dontleaveh
mode\rotate[rotation=180]{\getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{234}]
\symbol[whatever]
Hi Hans,
thanks for the help. I had to enclose the symbol definition part in curly brackets:
\definesymbol[whatever][{\dontleavehm ode\rotate[rotation=180]{\getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{234}}}]
Now the symbol is rotated without causing a new line. Yet, the rotated symbol appears below the current line:
text text -> text <-
Is there a possibility to specifiy the center of rotation?
I'm not sure about that, but a bit of trial-and-error gives (building upon yesterday's posts and my little symb-uzd package): \usesymbols[uzd] \setupsymbolset[Unicode Shadowed Arrows] \definesymbol[left][{% \raisebox{0.05em}\normalhbox{\rotate[location={high},rotation=180] {\symbol[LeftShadedWhiteRightwardsArrow]}}}] \definesymbol[right][{\symbol[RightShadedWhiteRightwardsArrow]}] \starttext test \symbol[left] \symbol[right] test \crlf \tfb test \symbol[left] \symbol[right] test \crlf \tfd test \symbol[left] \symbol[right] test \crlf \stoptext You can replace the symbol names with your \getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{234}, etc. From testing (Apple's PDF vs Adobe Viewer), it looks like precise placement will be difficult, given your other concerns: different viewers are going to have differently-drawn Dingbat fonts, and alignment, here, is going to depend a fair bit on the internal structure of these fonts. (Heh, I just thought of this:) \definesymbol[left][{% \mirror{\symbol[LeftShadedWhiteRightwardsArrow]}}] The mirrored version works fine, and is what you probably want. That's ConTeXt for you... sometimes you have to take a step back and realise that it can be done more simply! adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-