On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 16:19:13 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

hm, one of these projects that when it got some reasonable user base went 'pro', collects money as kick start which looks proffitable enough to keep all open, but then goes for a limited free version to play nice, and go for a subscription model (so lock-in) ... some fashion in (pseudo) open source ... pretty confusing too (hopefully Hraban got a live long pro license for free)

The community offers the 'Pro' version of ConTeXt for free... ;-)

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Aditya Mahajan schrieb am 07.10.18 um 15:26:

...

Hi,

There is a FontAwesome.otf file that is distributed with ConTeXt minimals. Does anyone know what version (4 or 5) of the font it is? I am asking because the names of the symbols used in the font do not match those on the font-awesome website. For example, using

\showsymbolset[fontawesome]

The distribution includes version 4.7.

...

I get that the symbol for "utensils" (https://fontawesome.com/icons/utensils?style=solid) is actually mapped to "food" in ConTeXt. Since the names of the symbols are now taken from the font, my guess is that the distribution has an old version of the font (also because it is a single font rather than three).

Would it make sense to update the fonts in the distribution? If not, then simply remove the old version of the fonts?

Also, don't we need to update the symb-imp-fontawesome.mkiv file to work with the new symbols. Font awesome has split the fonts into three (https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-desktop/setup/getting-started): Solid, Regular, and Brands. (There are also pro version of the fonts). The simplest way to use them will be to have three symbolsets (fontawesome, fontawesome-solid, and fontawesome-brands), where the names are taken from the fonts.

In the meanwhile, Hraban has painstakenly written out the mappings by hand, but the automatic mapping might be simpler (and more future proof). https://github.com/fiee/ConTeXt/blob/master/symbols/symb-awesome5.mkiv

While I have no problem replacing the old symbols you can support both when you use new set names for the new version (even for the regular style).

\definefontsynonym [FontAwesomeBrands] [file:fontawesome5brandsregular400.otf] \definefontsynonym [FontAwesomeRegular] [file:fontawesome5freeregular400.otf] \definefontsynonym [FontAwesomeSolid] [file:fontawesome5freesolid900.otf]

\startsymbolset [fontawesome-brands] [font=FontAwesomeBrands]   % Font Awesome Brands \stopsymbolset

\startsymbolset [fontawesome-regular] [font=FontAwesomeRegular]   % Font Awesome Regular \stopsymbolset

\startsymbolset [fontawesome-solid] [font=FontAwesomeSolid]   % Font Awesome Solid \stopsymbolset

\starttext

\startnamedsection [title] [title={Font Awesome Brands}]   \showsymbolset [fontawesome-brands] \stopnamedsection

\startnamedsection [title] [title={Font Awesome Regular}]   \showsymbolset [fontawesome-regular] \stopnamedsection

\startnamedsection [title] [title={Font Awesome Solid}]   \showsymbolset [fontawesome-solid] \stopnamedsection

\stoptext

This sounds reasonable. Could we add these definitions to symb-imp-fontawesome? Thanks, Aditya

Hi, I'm trying to get Font Awesome 5 to work for me, but it only almost does. Wolfgang's code works and I get a nice list of symbols for all three variations, so ConTeXt obviously finds the font. But when I try to use a single symbol, ConTeXt prints the symbol name instead of the symbol. There must be something I'm overlooking, but I don't know what. Wiki wasn't very helpful, although we do have an entry on symbols (Font Awesome, on the other hand, isn't mentioned anywhere on the wiki). I tried with \symbol[fontawesome-regular][credit-card] (at the end of my file) and a few variants thereof, but couldn't get the symbol. What am I doing wrong? What have I missed? TIA, Mari On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 4:45 PM Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Aditya Mahajan schrieb am 07.10.18 um 15:26:

...

Hi,

There is a FontAwesome.otf file that is distributed with ConTeXt minimals. Does anyone know what version (4 or 5) of the font it is? I am asking because the names of the symbols used in the font do not match those on the font-awesome website. For example, using

\showsymbolset[fontawesome]

The distribution includes version 4.7.

...

I get that the symbol for "utensils" (https://fontawesome.com/icons/utensils?style=solid) is actually mapped to "food" in ConTeXt. Since the names of the symbols are now taken from the font, my guess is that the distribution has an old version of the font (also because it is a single font rather than three).

Would it make sense to update the fonts in the distribution? If not, then simply remove the old version of the fonts?

Also, don't we need to update the symb-imp-fontawesome.mkiv file to work with the new symbols. Font awesome has split the fonts into three (https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-desktop/setup/getting-started):

Solid, Regular, and Brands. (There are also pro version of the fonts). The simplest way to use them will be to have three symbolsets (fontawesome, fontawesome-solid, and fontawesome-brands), where the names are taken from the fonts.

In the meanwhile, Hraban has painstakenly written out the mappings by hand, but the automatic mapping might be simpler (and more future proof). https://github.com/fiee/ConTeXt/blob/master/symbols/symb-awesome5.mkiv

While I have no problem replacing the old symbols you can support both when you use new set names for the new version (even for the regular style).

\definefontsynonym [FontAwesomeBrands] [file:fontawesome5brandsregular400.otf] \definefontsynonym [FontAwesomeRegular] [file:fontawesome5freeregular400.otf] \definefontsynonym [FontAwesomeSolid] [file:fontawesome5freesolid900.otf]

\startsymbolset [fontawesome-brands] [font=FontAwesomeBrands] % Font Awesome Brands \stopsymbolset

\startsymbolset [fontawesome-regular] [font=FontAwesomeRegular] % Font Awesome Regular \stopsymbolset

\startsymbolset [fontawesome-solid] [font=FontAwesomeSolid] % Font Awesome Solid \stopsymbolset

\starttext

\startnamedsection [title] [title={Font Awesome Brands}] \showsymbolset [fontawesome-brands] \stopnamedsection

\startnamedsection [title] [title={Font Awesome Regular}] \showsymbolset [fontawesome-regular] \stopnamedsection

\startnamedsection [title] [title={Font Awesome Solid}] \showsymbolset [fontawesome-solid] \stopnamedsection

\stoptext

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