Hello, Some time ago Jonathan implemented a new \XeTeXglyphindex command to retrieve the glyph from current font by name (it currently only works for OpenType, but that's the most important). \getglyph is already taken, I used it in the example below just because I didn't think of a better name. Would it name sense to provide a \namedglyph macro in ConTeXt for XeTeX users as well? (Hopefully the feature will be available in pdfTeX as well ;) I don't mind if LaTeX & ConTeXt use the same syntax every now and then ;) (In the future: It might make sense to provide an optional field to retrieve a glyph from any font, not just from the current one, but I'm not sure about what the exact interface should be and if it would be optional it can be added later anyway.) Any thoughts? Mojca On 8/12/06, Will Robertson wrote:

On 11/06/2006, at 21:09 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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\def\getglyph#1{\XeTeXglyph\XeTeXglyphindex "#1"} \font\A='Antykwa Torunska' \A

Thank you, Jonathan, I \getglyph{heart} this new feature!

Just to follow up on this; for LaTeX users, the new version of the xltxtra package will include this macro under the name "\namedglyph" (it's actually Jonathan's improved version).

Cheers,

Will