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Re: Sun symbol (again!) [message #64457 is a reply to message #64410]

Tue, 23 December 2008 19:15

David Fanning
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Michael Williams writes:

> For the benefit of future Googlers, the sun symbol in marvosym, while
> better than many other solutions, is not a circle but a backwards
> "o" (note the thickness and angle of the stroke on the right and left-
> hand sides). An astronomical sun symbol is a perfect circle with a
> point at its centre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_symbol. Users of
> OS X have access to (and licenses for!) a number of TrueType fonts
> which contain this symbol and presumably following your procedure to
> get a True Type symbol with these fonts would also work. These fonts
> include Apple Symbols and Arial Unicode MS. Presumably the same is
> true on Windows and Linux.

Indeed, I found the Arial Unicode MS font already installed on
my computer. I've updated the article with this additional
information. Thanks for the update.

Cheers,

David
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		Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Sun, 21 December 2008 15:32
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: jschwab@gmail.com on Mon, 29 December 2008 13:51
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: pgrigis on Mon, 05 January 2009 06:47
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Sun, 28 December 2008 13:53
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Sun, 28 December 2008 09:19
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Tue, 23 December 2008 19:15
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Tue, 23 December 2008 18:53

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