I found the article: "Integrating TrueType Fonts into ConTEXt", by Thomas A. Schmitz (The PracTEX Journal TPJ 2005 No 02) most useful. Cheers, Jörg Horacio Suarez wrote:

Hello all:

Maybe out of topic.

I need to learn to install fonts for context. I know there is a My way and other documents, but I don´t understand it.

I have successfully installed garamond following instructions, but I don´t know what i´m doing.

Maybe I have to understand Tex and the Tex tree structure first?

Thankyou in advance.

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Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:14:36 +0200 From: schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re: [NTG-context] reading recomendations

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Jörg Hagmann wrote:

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Horacio Suarez wrote:

...

Hello all:

Maybe out of topic.

I need to learn to install fonts for context. I know there is a My way and other documents, but I don´t understand it.

I have successfully installed garamond following instructions, but I don´t know what i´m doing.

Maybe I have to understand Tex and the Tex tree structure first?

Thankyou in advance.

...

I found the article:

"Integrating TrueType Fonts into ConTEXt", by Thomas A. Schmitz (The PracTEX Journal TPJ 2005 No 02)

A nice article, I read it myself to install my first fonts in ConTeXt for pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX make the life easier but you should have to tried to install a font with tfm and map files :-)

You should search in the list archives with the keyword typescript and take a look at the following two links.

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Understanding_how_fonts_work_in_ConTeXt http://watershade.net/wmcclain/context-help.html#newfont

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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Fri, 23 May 2008, Jesse Alama wrote:

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I was working on a document in which I wanted use a symbol that, acording to the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, goes by the name of \Asterisk or \bigast (see p. 22). I saw, though, that this seems to be missing in ConTeXt. Might it be tucked away in some module, or is it just absent? If it's really not there, what would it take to add it?

The latex symbol list says that these are from the mathabx font. AFAIK, this font is not currently supported by ConTeXt. Adding support should be doable, but I am not sure what is the best way to support it. I do not know if this family is a complete replacement for CM (and LM) fonts, or only some symbols are provided.

I am travelling right now, and I can play around with these fonts sometime next week. The font claims to provide plain tex support, so it should be usable out of the box. You can try

\input mathabx

$\Asterix$

What is with Obelix?

and see if this works with plain tex and ConTeXt.

Only the metafont files are available, I do not know if someone has created a type1 version.

Why so complicated, * did also work with Latin Modern and the other fonts. I prefer \definesymbol [asterisk] [\char"2A\relax] and \symbol{asterisk}, you're way is also possible but \startencoding[default] \definecharacter Asterisk \char"2A \stopencoding is also possible. The unicode chart show a few more asterisk variatione in the dingbats section: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf

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PS Is there such a thing for ConTeXt as the Comprehensive Symbol List for LaTex?

Not as organized as the Comprehensive Symbol List, but quite useful nonetheless

\showmathcharacters

mkiv has another mechanism (s-???) whose name I do not remember at the moment.

It makes sense to take first a look at the unicode charts if the character has a representation in the list and choose a font (e.g. Unicode.otf) with the symbol. Wolfgang

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

...

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

...

On Fri, 23 May 2008, Jesse Alama wrote:

...

I was working on a document in which I wanted use a symbol that, acording to the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, goes by the name of \Asterisk or \bigast (see p. 22). I saw, though, that this seems to be missing in ConTeXt. Might it be tucked away in some module, or is it just absent? If it's really not there, what would it take to add it?

The latex symbol list says that these are from the mathabx font. AFAIK, this font is not currently supported by ConTeXt. Adding support should be doable, but I am not sure what is the best way to support it. I do not know if this family is a complete replacement for CM (and LM) fonts, or only some symbols are provided.

I am travelling right now, and I can play around with these fonts sometime next week. The font claims to provide plain tex support, so it should be usable out of the box. You can try

\input mathabx

$\Asterix$

What is with Obelix?

...

and see if this works with plain tex and ConTeXt.

Only the metafont files are available, I do not know if someone has created a type1 version.

Why so complicated, * did also work with Latin Modern and the other fonts.

I prefer \definesymbol [asterisk] [\char"2A\relax] and \symbol{asterisk}, you're way is also possible but \startencoding[default] \definecharacter Asterisk \char"2A \stopencoding is also possible.

Asterix is like a big asterix (similar to \bigstar vs \star, and \bigtimes vs \times, maybe it shold be called \bigasterix)

I found \asterisk and \Asterisk in the manual but no \Asterix.

...

The unicode chart show a few more asterisk variatione in the dingbats section: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf

I will check that.

The chart contains only dingbats symbols but there is also a mathematical asterisk in the next chart. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf --> 2217 Wolfgang