[XeTeX] asterism

[teginch at bluewin.ch]

Pete, Stephen,

Thanks for your input. I had something along the lines of Peter Flynn's solution in my mind which would allow to use 
the same font. Worked great for me.

Tom
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>----Message d'origine----
>De: sgmoye at me.com
>Date: 12.01.2010 01:28
>À: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"<xetex at tug.org>
>Objet: Re: [XeTeX] asterism
>
>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, ...)

>> 

>

>Some time ago, Peter Flynn suggested this on comp.text.tex (changed slightly to my own needs):

>

>%%=========8><--------%%

>

>% !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}

>

>%%=========8><--------%%

>

>Stephen Moye