On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:00:48PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > Indeed there are 216 bullets and while the majority of these are > either dingbats from the pifont package or available by default from > latex there are a number of other symbols that were collected from > different packages. The closest I could get to a reasonable lowest > common denominator was 36 and that meant putting two sets of symbols > together: the "standard" ones from either text or math and the handful > from the latexsym package. > > Package checking has to be done somewhere, somehow. Maybe an > additional parameter or three could be placed in params to say whether > pifont, amssymb, latexsym needs to be included -- now that we have > controllers the above code could be moved there and modified to suit a > better scheme. It would probably be better to have the controller > name the packages required so that validate() just iterates over a > string.
Can't we (ab)use mathed for the bullets? The validate() would come for free, and we could store real strings as the parser is already there. The missing support for \ding is a matter of ten minutes... Andre'
