Re: [NTG-context] Female sign in Context

27 Oct 2007

      Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:30:49 +0200
Taco Hoekwater  wrote:
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Maurício wrote:
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Hi,
How do I type the female sign (ª)
in Context?
Depends a bit on your font setup.
In mkiv and xetex and pdftex with texnansi font encoding and
in xml input, just type ª.
If that doesn't work, there is the macro \ordfeminine
Are you sure this should work, both of them give me different symbols
(dependent on the font encoding) but no female sign.
The ª (U+00AA)and º (U+00BA) indicate grammatical gender of a number, as 
in 1ª Edición. The ♀ (U+2640) and ♂ (U+2642) indicate either biological
gender (or the planets venus and mars).

The 'standard' ConTeXt for these four is:

   \ordfeminine
   \ordmasculine

   \usesymbols[was]
   \symbol[wasy general][female]
   \symbol[wasy general][male]

But the minimals don't contain the wasysym font, so it makes sense
to add your two definitions to symb-mvs.tex, with the added benefit
that it is loaded automatically. And I think it would be nice to be
able to key in \female  and \male directly, so:

   \startsymbolset [gender]

   \definesymbol[Male]  [\MartinVogelSymbol{124}]
   \definesymbol[Female][\MartinVogelSymbol{126}]

   \stopsymbolset

   \startencoding[default]

   \definecharacter female {\symbol[gender][Female]}
   \definecharacter male   {\symbol[gender][Male]}

   \stopencoding

Hans, is that ok?

Best wishes,
Taco

Best wishes,
Taco