On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 3:27 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
On 9/21/2020 2:55 PM, Christoph Reller wrote:

> \definefontsynonym[ZapfDingbats][file:ZapfDingbats][features=dingbats]

I don't know what the previous line does ... but it works ok here when
you remove it.
 
This line loads the font from a file ZapfDingbats.ttf. Without this line I get no check marks in the output and the following log messages:

fonts           > defining > font with asked name 'uzdr' is not found using lookup 'file'
fonts           > defining > unknown font 'uzdr', loading aborted

Correct me if I am wrong, but there does not seem to be a font file named uzdr* in the distribution tree.

> \definefont[zapfdingbats][ZapfDingbats]
> \starttext
> {\zapfdingbats ✓}
> \definedfont[name:ZapfDingbats]✓
> \stoptext
>
> I still get no check mark in the output PDF and a log message "char ✓
> (U+02713) in font 'ZapfDingbats-4' with id 8: missing". Am I using the
> font wrongly?
> (This has not a high priority for me, because I have the unified access
> by glyph index.)