Am 15.03.2010 um 15:01 schrieb David Cottenden:
Or are you looking for EMPTY SET, ∅, at U+2205? DIAMETER SIGN,
⌀, is at U+2300.
The latter is the one that I am after, but I know that my main body
font doesn't include it. Is there a decent font which does? I'm
looking to match with Chaparral Pro, if that's possible.
You could construct one from other glyphs in your darling font! (By
using o, O, or 0 at one size and / or FRACTION SLASH ⁄, U+2044, or
DIVISION SLASH ∕, U+2215, at another size at different height and
some negative kerning between them.)
On Linux you could use, I think, GNUcharmap to check particular glyphs
of the fonts you have. Once you've one, you can:
\newfontfamily{\my_DIAMETER_font}{your font's name}
\catcode"2205=\active
\def⌀{{\ my_DIAMETER_font\char"2205}}
and then use in the text the symbol ⌀ and it will be set in that font.
BTW, some elderly LaTeX packages which handle special symbols, cannot
be used (easily) in XeTeX because they use rather strange and non-
Unicode fonts. Unicode encoded fonts are best suited for XeTeX.
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Greetings
Pete
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