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-Thomas Schröder sent me a mail about having composed
-Type1 fonts from the Metafont source. I pass the files
-through to you without checking them, but I suspect
-they are useful.
++------------------------------------------------------+
+| The Euro Symbol Package for LaTeX by Henrik Theiling |
+| Version 1.4 |
+| <henrik@theiling.de>, http://www.theiling.de/ |
++------------------------------------------------------+
-These fonts are made from an older version of the Eurosym
-package (< 1.4) and so the measures may be slightly different
-from the official construction.
+Hi!
-Thomas used textrace to create the g* files and then
-edited them to contain hints using pfaedit. This makes
-the f* series. A map file for dvips is also provided.
+This is the Euro symbol package I created. It provides a new symbol
+to be used for the new European currency symbol, the Euro. The
+specifications were taken from the c't magazine 11/98 p.211 from from
+Encyclopaedia Britannica, Book of the Year 2002.
-Contact Thomas here: schlumpf@mac.com
+There is a style file (sty/eurosym.sty), some Metafont source files
+(src/*.mf) and a LaTeX file (doc/testeuro.tex). For installation, put
+this somewere where LaTeX can find it.
-Have fun!
+Further documentation can be found in doc/testeuro.dvi. You can only
+see the Euro symbols in the text if you have installed the package
+successfully, though.
+
+System Wide Installation Done by the Superuser
+----------------------------------------------
+An example follows. Substitute $TEXMF with something that
+matches your installation (search for texmf on your system
+if you don't know where it is).
+
+If you are the superuser, move the eurosym/src directory to
+$TEXMF/fonts/source/eurosym, the eurosym/tfm directory to
+$TEXMF/fonts/tfm/eurosym and the eurosym/sty directory to
+$TEXMF/tex/latex/eurosym.
+
+Use Installation
+----------------
+Choose a directory for this installation, say $HOME/lib/tex/eurosym
+and make sure that the programmes `latex', `dvips', `xdvi', and
+possible other TeX related programmes find the files by ensuring
+that the environment variables TEXINPUTS, MFINPUT and TFMFONTS
+point to $HOME/lib/tex// (double slash at the end to ensure
+sub-directory recursion) as well. See the file doc/runlatex for
+an example.
+
+Testing
+-------
+Go to the doc subdirectory, compile testeuro.tex with latex and read
+it with xdvi. Ignore some warnings about underfull hboxes which
+occur because there is a three column part of text which TeX can't
+typeset perfectly. Also ignore the warnings about unavailable shapes
+of cmr.
+
+TODO
+----
+ Implement the OCR Euro symbols. (long term project...)
+
+
+BUGS
+----
+- testeuro.tex creates warnings about unavailable shapes of cmr
+ although I tried my best to make the scope of the \olshape
+ command include the \officialeuro{} command only.
+
+- FIXED:
+ at least on my machine, dvips and xdvi produce checksum mismatches
+ for some unknown reason.
+
+- FIXED:
+ problems with names: `eurosymbol' and `eurosym' were both used.
+
+**Henrik