cormullion@mac.com wrote:

On 2007-01-02, at 22:00.0, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Am 2006-12-31 um 15:59 schrieb cormullion@mac.com:

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I need to insert a few Unicode symbols...(Just the symbols for the solar system planets)... Is this going to be easy - doable inside ConTeXt with a few preparatory mystic runes, or will it require running scripts, moving files around, etc...?

The wiki suggests:

Use \enableregime[utf] in order to be able to typeset in unicode under ConTeXt.

But is it as simple as it looks?

Have a deeper look at the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/ http://source.contextgarden.net/symb-uni.tex

Of course you need the fonts containing the symbols in place...

Thanks! I'm looking for a level 1 solution (ie one that doesn't require me to go into the Terminal and start typing commands and moving files). Adam's document was interesting but looked a bit too daunting - a level 2 solution. Nothing wrong with that, just that I've got to find the time and skill to do it.

The symbol set reference was great - the planet symbols are accessible in:

\usesymbols[mvs] \showsymbolset[astronomic]

so I may not have to go to a unicode-font at all.

I just wish there was some way of accessing all the standard fonts and symbols that are already a few millimetres away on the hard disk... :-)

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Thanks - with all your help I can now do this. For the record: \starttext To insert the symbol for the planet Jupiter. using Martin Vogels Symbole font: \usesymbols[mvs] \setupsymbolset[astronomic] \symbol[Jupiter] using Roland Waldi Symbole font: \usesymbols[was] \setupsymbolset [wasy astronomy] \symbol[jupiter] \stoptext so I can get this bit finished...

The following example is not very ConTeXt-ish, but it should work (if you got the unicode glyph right):

\font\astro='name of your font with astro symbols or unicode font' \def\neptune{{\astro ♆}}

\starttext \neptune \stoptext

Thanks - these will need the font metrics file installed, though (I think). A project for the future... :-)

On 2007-01-04, at 19:42.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On 1/4/07, cormullion@mac.com wrote:

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The following example is not very ConTeXt-ish, but it should work (if you got the unicode glyph right):

\font\astro='name of your font with astro symbols or unicode font' \def\neptune{{\astro ♆}}

\starttext \neptune \stoptext

Thanks - these will need the font metrics file installed

No, you don't need them. XeTeX can work with any OpenType font installed on your system.

OK - I'll download XeTeX and give it a go. Thanks!

On 2007-01-03, at 20:01.0, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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The symbol set reference was great - the planet symbols are accessible in:

\usesymbols[mvs] \showsymbolset[astronomic]

so I may not have to go to a unicode-font at all.

The symbol set "was" (Roland Waldi's symbols AKA wasysym) contains even more astronomic symbols; check which fit your needs better. "was" wasn't mentioned on the symbols page until now, but comes with the distribution.

Thanks. I'll try to get this working too! It will be something like this, i expect: \usesymbols[was] \showsymbolset[astronomy] only this doesn't work... :-) I really appreciate the help of you guys - steep learning curves etc ..... !