[XeTeX] asterism

[Stephen Moye]

On Jan 11, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 11.01.2010 um 22:16 schrieb teginch at bluewin.ch:
> 
>> Can anyone tell me how to get it printed ?
> 
> 
> Just use a font which has it! (Arev Sans, Cardo, Code2000, FreeMono, FreeSans, FreeSerif, Junicode, Linux Libertine/Biolinum, the Lucida Sans fonts from Java, Monospace, [Titus] Cyberbit, ...)
> 
> --
> Mit evolutionären Grüßen
> 
>  Pete
> 
> 
> "Evolution"            o           __o                     _o _
>          °\___o      /0~         -\<,              ^\___ /=\\_/-%
> oo~_______ /\ /\______/ \_________O/ O_______________o===>-->O--o____
> 
> 
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Some time ago, Peter Flynn suggested this on comp.text.tex (changed slightly to my own needs):

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% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX


\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setromanfont{Adobe Garamond Pro}

\newcommand{\asterism}{%
	\smash{%
		\raisebox{-.15em}{%
			\setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.05em}%
			\begin{tabular}{@{}cc@{}}%
				\multicolumn2c*\\[-.75em]*&*%
			\end{tabular}%
		}%
	}%
} 
     
\begin{document}

This \asterism\ is an asterism.

\end{document}

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Stephen Moye