Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John Was
Many thanks for that - it seems that I shall be labouring under an embarras de richesses. John - Original Message - From: "John McChesney-Young" To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 17 September 2011 15:51 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Astro

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John McChesney-Young
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > The following fonts contain the characters [sc., astrological symbols] your > looking for: > >        Apple Symbols >        Arial Unicode >        FreeMono >        FreeSerif >        Menlo >        MonoSpace Linux Libertine and Biolinum

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
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Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John Was
sed TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 17 September 2011 13:09 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols John Was wrote: Thanks for the list - I've got Arial of course ... but it's so ugly! Think "Bauhaus", think "minimalist" : if you're enough

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
John Was wrote: > Thanks for the list - I've got Arial of course ... but it's so ugly! Think "Bauhaus", think "minimalist" : if you're enough of a poseur [1], Arial will surely become the ultimate font of choice :-) ** Phil. [1] http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/17/lessons-from

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John Was
eX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 17 September 2011 09:54 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols Am 16.09.2011 um 22:09 schrieb John Was: Not a strictly XeTeX issue, but can anyone recommend a font (preferably Unicode compliant but not absolutely essential) that contains the

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 16.09.2011 um 22:09 schrieb John Was: > Not a strictly XeTeX issue, but can anyone recommend a font (preferably > Unicode compliant but not absolutely essential) that contains the > astrological symbols (planets, zodiacal signs etc.: mainly Unicode range > 263D and following) and will look

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-17 Thread John Was
orms" Sent: 17 September 2011 01:03 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols John, My Cardo font (http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html) has them and is definitely a Unicode font. I once needed the astrological characters for a project but I am not an astrologer so I will not

Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-16 Thread David Perry
John, My Cardo font (http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html) has them and is definitely a Unicode font. I once needed the astrological characters for a project but I am not an astrologer so I will not claim that they are beautifully designed or anything, but they might do. David On 9/16/20

[XeTeX] Astrological symbols

2011-09-16 Thread John Was
Dear XeTeX users Not a strictly XeTeX issue, but can anyone recommend a font (preferably Unicode compliant but not absolutely essential) that contains the astrological symbols (planets, zodiacal signs etc.: mainly Unicode range 263D and following) and will look half-decent in book work, combin