Hello! That was it, I forgot rule one: update your ConTeXt before asking questions. I updated to newest current and everything started working.
Thank you, Mari On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 2:59 PM Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mari, > > you have to update your installation because fontawesome 5 uses a new > machanism > to load the symbols from the font files. The first version of the > mechanism from August > did only work when you enabled the symbol set for the whole document and > extended > support was added in September. > > Wolfgang > > > Mari Voipio schrieb am 01.11.18 um 13:51: > > Hi Wolfgang et al, > > > > I did some more research into this. > > > > If I put \symbol after \showsymbolset, the font gets loaded and the > > symbols show up as expected. If I put \symbol before \showsymbolset, > > the font seems to get loaded, but instead of the symbol I get its name > > printed. If I remove the \showsymbolset commands altogether, the > > correct font doesn't get loaded at all (as far as I understand from > > the log) and understandably I get no symbols then. I didn't touch the > > stuff above \starttext, just moved the \symbol commands around. > > As far as I can tell, the font is properly installed and ConTeXt finds > > it (otherwise \showsymbolset wouldn't work, I think). But I've got a > > nagging feeling I'm missing something somewhere else. Unfortunately > > I'm on thin ice here, fonts really aren't my forte. > > > > Mari > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 1:45 PM Wolfgang Schuster > > <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Mari Voipio schrieb am 01.11.18 um 12:04: > >>> 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? > >> Since you didn’t provide a example it’s difficult to tell what’s wrong > >> for you > >> but the following example works for me. > >> > >> Don’t forget to put the files for fontawesome 5 in a folder where > >> ConTeXt can find them. > >> > >> > >> \usesymbols[fontawesome] > >> > >> \starttext > >> > >> \symbol[fontawesome-regular][credit-card] > >> > >> \symbol[fontawesome-solid][credit-card] > >> > >> \stoptext > >> > >> > >> Wolfgang > ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
