Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Wingdings...

[Julian_S_Moore]

Actually, Wingdings 2... on a Windows system.

Using MiKTeX 2.7 with XeLaTeX I've managed to get all sorts of weird and wonderful fonts into my document... but not "Wingdings 2"

I get these warnings... and boring little boxes in the PDF output.

** WARNING ** Unable to read OpenType/TrueType Unicode cmap table
** WARNING ** Failed to load ToUnicode CMap for font "Wingdings2"

Googling says getting even Wingdings to work is a nightmare, so... I hesitate to ask how to get #2 to work, but if you know, please say so!

Or does anyone have some other ideas/font with nice square-edged symmetrical 5-pointed stars - given that I only want the nice square-edged symmetrical 5-pointed stars from Wingdings 2?

Thanks

[magicmoose]

Hi Julian,

Is the \bigstar provide with the AMS Math packages suitable for your needs?

Hope that helps

[Julian_S_Moore]

Thanks for the suggestion but no - the lines converge to the points of the star, I'm looking for straight arms with parallel sides and square ends...

The search continues...

[Julian_S_Moore]

Solved with a graphic (it's a section marker) - but another question arises.

[I've evaded the issue entirely... I created the shape in Mathematica and exported as EPS then used \includegraphics... After discovering a conflict arising from explicitly declaring \usepackage{graphicx} and removing the declaration it works a treat]

Now the question is, though I have control over height and width, how do I control the spacing so that it behaves like a line of text?