On 23-Feb-06 Robert Marks wrote: > Does any of the fonts in the standard distributions of groff contain > characters depicting the standard male and female symbols? > (The circle with the oblique arrow above, and the circle with the cross > below.) > Inquiring minds would like to know.
No -- not in the Latin1 encoding for PostScript nor in the Symbol font, nor in Zapf Dingbats (which is not to say that they are absent from utf8 but that's a different question). However, they are simple enough that you can draw your own, defining a ".char" object (which will automatically scale with changes in font size). Define two new characters \[MS] for Male Symbol \[FS] for Female symbol: .char \[MS] \ \Z'\Z'\[ci]'\ \h'\w'\[ci]'u/13u*10u'\v'-\w'\[ci]'u/13u*10u'\ \D'l \w'\[ci]'u/3u -\w'\[ci]'u/3u'\ \Z'\D'l -\w'\[ci]'u/5u 0''\ \Z'\D'l 0 \w'\[ci]'u/5u'''\ \h'\w'\[ci]'u/5u*6u' .char \[FS] \ \Z'\Z'\[ci]'\ \h'\w'\[ci]'u/2u'\ \Z'\D'l 0 \w'\[ci]'u/2u'\ \v'-\w'\[ci]'u/6u'\h'-\w'\[ci]'u/4u'\ \D'l \w'\[ci]'u/2u 0'''\h'\w'\[ci]'u' .LP \s[20]Male Symbol: MM\[MS]MM\s0 .sp .LP \s[20]Female Symbol: MM\[FS]MM\s0 (Using ms macrosm and enclosing the symbols betweem "MM" and "MM" to show how they fit into running text). They look reasonable to me, but you can tweak the metrics and motions to suit your own taste. Hoping this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 24-Feb-06 Time: 22:05:48 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
