Ampersand Symbol Text Insertion

[fallen jasper]

Currently my ampersands are rendered as shown in the picture above.

I've tried changing fonts to no avail so after looking up the docs I found that I can reference the symbol using #sym.amp

So how would I insert this into the middle of my description/string?

#block-entry{
  description: "'&' is an Ampersand",
}

^For example how would I insert an ampersand symbol into this description?

[dapper ermine]

afaik you need to use content instead of string, like: ['#sym.amp' is an Ampersand]

[fallen jasper]

I'll give that a try
thanks for the message!

[fierce marlin]

?r t=l

A & B or #sym.amp

#set text(font: "New Computer Modern")
A & B or #sym.amp

[fallen jasper]

damn

just tried it and it's still rendering as that other typeset

[fierce marlin]

& and sym.amp will give the same symbol in a given font, you need to change the font to change how it is rendered

[fallen jasper]

looking in lib.typ

I tried changing everywhere where font is declared/specified:

font: {"Roboto"}
font: {"Open Sans Pro"}

Changing either of these doesn't produce any noticeable effect, still not sure what I'm doing wrong unfortunately

[fierce marlin]

what is lib.typ? is it an external template? are those fonts being set inside a set text(...)?

[fallen jasper]

This does work in terms of inserting symbols / referencing within text so thank you for the comment!

It seems that I'm just having font problems unfortunately

[fallen jasper]

I'm currently using the modern-cv 0.3.0 template:
https://typst.app/universe/modern-cv

are those fonts being set inside a set text(...)?

yes that is correct

[dapper ermine]

If you want to change the font, you may need to use set text(font: "the font you want")

[fallen jasper]

dang
tried that and a couple additional variants but nothing seems to change/indicate that it does anything

unfortunately this is getting too frustrating so I'm gonna have to quit

anyways I appreciate the help even if it didn't work!

[dapper ermine]

Could you post a reproducable example here? Maybe that can help to diagnose the issue.

[fallen jasper]

Initialize new project from modern-cv v0.3.0 template:

typst init @preview/modern-cv:0.3.0

Open resume.typ and modify section description to:

#resume-entry(
  description: ['#sym.app' is an Ampersand]
)

.

Under section: Experience

it should look like this:

[dapper ermine]

And you want to change its font, right?

[fallen jasper]

yup

also; not sure if this is relevant but selecting "John Smith" in the Typst preview window will open up lib.typ in a new tab

[dapper ermine]

What font do you want in this description

[fallen jasper]

preferably Open Sans or anything Sans-Serif but at this point anything works,

• just need ampersand to look like the typical symbol

[dapper ermine]

Could you find the default fonts of modern-cv (https://github.com/giovanniberti/moderncv.typst/blob/main/moderncv.typ#L44C19-L44C52) in typst font?

You could try to find them via typst fonts | grep "Latin Modern Sans" and typst fonts | grep "Inria Sans", if you are using *nix system

My fault, I post a wrong link

[fallen jasper]

no worries

[fallen jasper]

hmm just tried both within the downloaded repo directory and both commands exits without any results

[dapper ermine]

https://github.com/DeveloperPaul123/modern-cv/blob/main/lib.typ#L153

this is the true lib

and you could try to find these two fonts "Source Sans Pro", "Source Sans 3"

[fallen jasper]

unfortunately still doesn't work,

I've been restarting the preview and reopening VSCodium after each attempt just in case

I have to wonder if there might be an issue with the Flatpak version of VSCodium or if...ah shit

[dapper ermine]

I think it is because modern-cv render your description in smallcaps

[fallen jasper]

I think fonts might not have been properly installed in the Arch Linux VM I'm currently working in

my main host is NixOS

I think that might be the blunder

[dapper ermine]

And in smallcaps the & will be rendered like this

https://github.com/DeveloperPaul123/modern-cv/blob/main/lib.typ#L232:

show heading.where(level: 3): it => {
  set text(
    size: 10pt,
    weight: "regular",
  )
  smallcaps[#it.body]
}

[fallen jasper]

AHHHH IT WORKS

pain

thank you

confirmed L232 changing:

smallcaps[#it.body]

to:

it.body

Fixes the ampersand issue

[dapper ermine]

Or you could just change the font for &, then other characters could still be smallcaps

[fallen jasper]

I can't express in words just how much I appreciate the time that you took to help me figure this out

again thank you!!❤️

[dapper ermine]

like show "&": text(font: "the font you want", "&")

some fonts with smcp features could show characters in different styles from normal mode

[fallen jasper]

I will give that a try tomorrow, gonna need to rest as I have a headache now😅

[dapper ermine]

yup

Struggling with styling makes everyone headache 😹

[fallen jasper]

yup

still beats msword tho👌

[dapper ermine]

I hope I shall never need msword 🙀