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Re: Sun symbol (again!) [message #64460 is a reply to message #64408]

Tue, 23 December 2008 16:56

Michael Williams
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Registered: December 2008

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On 22 Dec, 03:57, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Here is an article that describes one possibility using
> freely available (and free) true-type fonts:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/sun_symbol.html

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.

-- Mike

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		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 22 December 2008 00:06
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: anand on Sun, 21 December 2008 21:28
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Sun, 21 December 2008 19:57
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 21 December 2008 18:16
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Tue, 23 December 2008 16:32
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Tue, 23 December 2008 16:56
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Tue, 23 December 2008 16:41
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Tue, 23 December 2008 16:34

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