Am 06.10.2012 um 06:03 schrieb Mari Voipio :

Hello!

I'm having one of those ConTeXt moments when I feel really stupid, but I just cannot figure this out....

I'd need the heart symbol. You know, the one that goes on Facebook as <3. I think it is this Unicode symbol: ♥ U+2665 BLACK HEART SUIT ♥ or ♥ or ♥

I'm using the LucidaOT (Unicode) font and my Mac should have some other of the basic symbol sets, but I just cannot figure out how to use the above knowledge to dish out the heart. (TeX culture shock, I think, I don't care about gazillion maths operators, I want my Dingbats and other little decorations.)

I found the Symbols wiki page at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols, but cannot figure out how to implement it: - the command \usesymbols[uni] gives 'symbols > unknown: library 'uni'' in the log. - the command \showsymbolset is just as hopeless: command \showsymbolset not found in file symb-run

So, what bit in that process have I missed or not understood? I'm running mkIV in ConTeXt version Aug 17, 2012 in a Mac laptop. As Unicode and all that have been around for ages, this problem must be one of those you find between the chair and the screen!

On a computer it’s easier to shoe these symbols because the OS uses different font when a symbol is missing in the the default system font but this doesn’t happen with ConTeXt. When I checked the Lucida font for the symbol I noticed that it isn’t available in the text font but you can use math mode where the symbol is available. \setupbodyfont[lucidaot] \starttext $♥$ \stoptext Wolfgang