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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/eurosym/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/eurosym/README index d83b274715a..a78c856e134 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/eurosym/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/eurosym/README @@ -1,16 +1,69 @@ -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 |