[XeTeX] Astrological symbols

[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" <jmccyoung at gmail.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 17 September 2011 15:51
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Astrological symbols


> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> 
> 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 also contain them
> (http://www.linuxlibertine.org/index.php?id=91&L=1; see page 51 of
> http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/latex/libertinedokuxelatex.pdf
> for what they look like).
>
> Libertine is the only font I have on my computer that includes italic
> and bold italic styles for the symbols as well as upright and bold,
> although it's certainly possible other fonts have them too.
>
> John
>
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