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
Which (free) font contains some symbol?
- comprehensive list of symbols in TeX fonts
- Unicode slots of symbols
- handy UTF-8 list
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
- The commands in category Commands/Symbols.
- Create your symbol with symbolset