On Monday, March 19, 2018, 1:08:26 PM CDT, François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote:


Le 19/03/2018 à 17:01, Antonio Olivares a écrit :
> On Monday, March 19, 2018, 10:04:26 AM CDT, François Patte
> <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Le 19/03/2018 à 15:12, Antonio Olivares a écrit :
>
>> Dear fellow fedora users,
>>
>> In including a soccer ball character in Unicode, I have found
>>
>> https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/26bd/index.htm
>>
>> And it works.  I try to include in latex document and the character does
>> not show up.  I have tried different variations
>> after \documentclass{article}
>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>>
>> And none seem to work.  Is there an easy way to include Unicode chars in
>> latex.
>
>
> use xelatex
>
>
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> How do I invoke it? 
> I have texlive 2017 full scheme installed.  I just use old
> latex+dvips+ps2pdf to create documents. 
>

Here is MWE:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily{\uni}{Unifont}

\begin{document}

{\uni%
\symbol{"26BD}
}

\end{document}

This suppose that you have the unifont.ttf installed on your machine.


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Thanks for helping me.  I am close but I get error:

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Unifont
                                                  
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: Unifont.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Unifont' failed to make Unifont.tfm.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
!
! The font "Unifont" cannot be found.
!
! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
!
! For immediate help type H <return>.
!...............................................  
                                                  
l.4 \newfontfamily{\uni}{Unifont}
                                 
?
kpathsea: Running mktextfm Unifont
/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation U for Unifont.
/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Unifont
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2017) (preloaded base=mf)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf Unifont
! I can't find file `Unifont'.
<*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Unifont
                                                  
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Unifont
                                                  
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: Unifont.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Unifont' failed to make Unifont.tfm.



Best Regards,


Antonio