On Fri, 23 May 2008, Jesse Alama wrote: > I was working on a document in which I wanted use a symbol that, > acording to the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, goes by the name of > \Asterisk or \bigast (see p. 22). I saw, though, that this seems to be > missing in ConTeXt. Might it be tucked away in some module, or is it > just absent? If it's really not there, what would it take to add it?
The latex symbol list says that these are from the mathabx font. AFAIK, this font is not currently supported by ConTeXt. Adding support should be doable, but I am not sure what is the best way to support it. I do not know if this family is a complete replacement for CM (and LM) fonts, or only some symbols are provided. I am travelling right now, and I can play around with these fonts sometime next week. The font claims to provide plain tex support, so it should be usable out of the box. You can try \input mathabx $\Asterix$ and see if this works with plain tex and ConTeXt. Only the metafont files are available, I do not know if someone has created a type1 version. > PS Is there such a thing for ConTeXt as the Comprehensive Symbol List > for LaTex? Not as organized as the Comprehensive Symbol List, but quite useful nonetheless \showmathcharacters mkiv has another mechanism (s-???) whose name I do not remember at the moment. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
