Characters words and fonts/Emoji and symbols

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Emoji

It goes without saying that you should use a font that incorporates emojis. On this wiki we can access to DejaVu (Twemoji Mozilla is not incorporated in the distribution). 

  • \setupbodyfont[dejavu, sans]

\startitemize
\head Using direct input \par
      \scale[scale=2000]{😎😊😐}

\head Using \tex{emoji} command with emoji description \par
      \scale[scale=2000]{\emoji{smiling face with sunglasses}\emoji{smiling face with smiling eyes}\emoji{neutral face}}

\head Using \tex{utfchar} \par
      \scale[scale=2000]{\utfchar{0x1F60E}\utfchar{0x1F60A}\utfchar{0x1F610}}
\stopitemize

Symbols

Symbols are named graphical or typographic elements. They can be divided into symbol sets, which gives some namespace independence, as well. You can load the symbol definitions from a symb-bla file with: 

\usesymbols[bla]

Given a symbol Snowman defined in a symbolset Weather Symbols in that file, you could typeset the symbol with: 

\setupsymbolset [Weather Symbols]
\symbol [Snowman]

Or, alternatively, you don't need to load the entire symbolset: 

\symbol[Weather Symbols][Snowman]

You can override the existing symbols used at different levels in itemized lists by redefining the existing symbol numbers, with code like the following: 

  • \usesymbols[mvs]
\definesymbol[1][{\symbol[martinvogel 2][PointingHand]}]
\definesymbol[2][{\symbol[martinvogel 2][CheckedBox]}]

\startitemize[packed]
\item item \item item
 \startitemize[packed]
 \item item \item item
 \stopitemize
\item item
\stopitemize


Predefined Symbol Sets

(Try \showsymbolset[some set]!)

  • cc : Creative Commons logos, set cc
  • cow : Cow-TeX logos, sets cownormal and cowcontour
  • eur : Adobe Euro (Serif|Sans|Mono), defines the euro symbol (no sets)
  • jmn : Janusz M. Nowacki’s navigational symbols (sets navigation 1-4)
  • mis : common bullets (no sets, but default definition for enumerations)
  • mvs : Martin Vogel’s Symbols (sets astronomic, zodiac, europe, martinvogel 1-2; replaces LaTeX’s marvosym)
  • nav : Hans Hagen’s navigational symbols (sets navigation 1-3)
  • was: Roland Waldi’s symbols (sets wasy general, music, astronomy, astrology, geometry; replaces LaTeX’s wasysym)
  • \usesymbols[mvs]
\bTABLE
\bTR
\bTD\showsymbolset[astronomic] \eTD
\bTD\showsymbolset[zodiac] \eTD
\bTD\showsymbolset[europe] \eTD
\bTD\showsymbolset[martinvogel 1] \eTD
\eTR
\eTABLE

See also

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