Date:         Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:42:01 +0200
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From:         Yaakov Oshman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: this is more of a TeX question than an IvriTeX question
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Dear List,

PLEASE, stop this clutter.  Whoever wants to help Jay (who also calls
himself Yaakov for some reason) - email him directly.

Yaakov.


At 08:18 10/09/01 +0000, you wrote:
>I think the marvosym font has these. You can download the font for free from
>www.yandy.com (click on downloads). Sivan
>
>
>On Monday 10 September 2001 02:09, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > This is admittedly more of a TeX question than an IvriTeX question,
> > but I hope you will forgive its intrusion here; I am a member of the
> > IvriTeX mailing list, and am not a member of any general-purpose TeX
> > mailing list (nor do I know if any such mailing list exists).  So I
> > don't know where else to ask.
> >
> > The question is a pretty simple one: Where can I find male and female
> > symbols among the fonts in the standard TeX distribution?  If I am not
> > mistaken, I have all of the standard TeX fonts.  I certainly see many
> > many symbols on some of these fonts.  For example, I see musical
> > symbols: flat, sharp, natural.  I have the entire Zapf Dingbats font,
> > with many many weird and strange symbols.  I think that ordinary male
> > and female symbols would be needed in a lot more fields (i.e.,
> > genetics, epidemiology) than some of those weird Zapf Dingbat symbols
> > (in fact, male and female symbols would be needed in astronomy too,
> > because they are identical to the astronomical symbols for the fourth
> > and second planets).  It stands to reason that they must be somewhere,
> > I just can't find them.  Will someone please tell me where they are?
> > I thank you in advance for your reply.
> >
> >                         Jay F. ("Yaakov") Shachter
> >                         6424 N Whipple St
> >                         Chicago IL  60645-4111
> >                                 (1-773)7613784
> >                                 [log in to unmask]