Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:30:49 +0200 Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Maurí­cio wrote:

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Hi,

How do I type the female sign (ª) in Context? Depends a bit on your font setup.

In mkiv and xetex and pdftex with texnansi font encoding and in xml input, just type ª.

If that doesn't work, there is the macro \ordfeminine

Are you sure this should work, both of them give me different symbols (dependent on the font encoding) but no female sign.

The ª (U+00AA)and º (U+00BA) indicate grammatical gender of a number, as in 1ª Edición. The ♀ (U+2640) and ♂ (U+2642) indicate either biological gender (or the planets venus and mars). The 'standard' ConTeXt for these four is: \ordfeminine \ordmasculine \usesymbols[was] \symbol[wasy general][female] \symbol[wasy general][male] But the minimals don't contain the wasysym font, so it makes sense to add your two definitions to symb-mvs.tex, with the added benefit that it is loaded automatically. And I think it would be nice to be able to key in \female and \male directly, so: \startsymbolset [gender] \definesymbol[Male] [\MartinVogelSymbol{124}] \definesymbol[Female][\MartinVogelSymbol{126}] \stopsymbolset \startencoding[default] \definecharacter female {\symbol[gender][Female]} \definecharacter male {\symbol[gender][Male]} \stopencoding Hans, is that ok? Best wishes, Taco Best wishes, Taco