On Wed, 28 May 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> >>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> $\Asterix$ >>> >>> What is with Obelix? >>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> Why so complicated, * did also work with Latin Modern and the other fonts. >>> >>> I prefer \definesymbol [asterisk] [\char"2A\relax] and \symbol{asterisk}, >>> you're way is also possible but >>> \startencoding[default] >>> \definecharacter Asterisk \char"2A >>> \stopencoding >>> is also possible. >> >> Asterix is like a big asterix (similar to \bigstar vs \star, and \bigtimes >> vs \times, maybe it shold be called \bigasterix) > > I found \asterisk and \Asterisk in the manual but no \Asterix. > >>> The unicode chart show a few more asterisk variatione in the dingbats >>> section: >>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf >> >> I will check that. > > The chart contains only dingbats symbols but there is also a mathematical > asterisk in the next chart. > > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf --> 2217
That looks like a normal asterisk to me. See \Asterisk on page 22 of http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=comprehensive Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________