On 3-6-2012 09:04, Alfredo Catalina wrote:

Ok, thanks Luigi.

This is how I sorted it out, hope it may help someone. It looks like I should write a typescript and a symbol definition file, but I new to this and don't know how to do it yet.

This is a workaround for the meantime:

- Download the free True Type font "Zapf Dingbats BT" from http://www.ufonts.com/fonts/zapf-dingbats-bt.html - You should have got the file ufonts.com_zapf-dingbats-bt-2.ttf or an EXE file -an installer- - In windows 7 it may be installed by clicking "install" -context menu, right mouse click- - Generate Context font database:

mtxrun --script fonts --reload

- Check it's been read:

mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=zapf*

- You should have several lines like "zapfdingbatsbt zapfdingbatsitcbybtregular c:/windows/fonts/ufonts.com_zapf-dingbats-bt-2.ttf" - Finally this is how I get the characters I need:

\definefont[zapfdingbats][ufonts.com_zapf-dingbats-bt-2.ttf at 10pt]

\starttext

Testing: {\zapfdingbats \char109} %shadowed white circle

\stoptext

in the distrubution from the contextgarden \definefont[zapfdingbats][ZapfDingbats] should work as well Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------