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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex index ed06d60b0a0..bb1b0e47814 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-symbols.tex @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -% $Id: faq-symbols.tex,v 1.3 2010/03/26 22:48:51 rf10 Exp rf10 $ +% $Id: faq-symbols.tex,v 1.4 2010/04/16 18:14:11 rf10 Exp rf10 $ \section{Symbols, etc.} @@ -331,9 +331,9 @@ Ordinary people (such as the author of this \acro{FAQ}) need only type \Question[Q-euro]{Typesetting the Euro sign} -The European currency ``Euro'' is represented by a symbol of somewhat -dubious design, but it's an important currency and \AllTeX{} users -need to typeset it. +The European currency ``Euro'' (\texteuro {}) is represented by a symbol +of somewhat dubious design, but it's an important currency and +\AllTeX{} users need to typeset it. Note that the Commission of the European Community at first deemed that the Euro symbol should always be set in a sans-serif font; @@ -352,15 +352,25 @@ universally loved\dots{} Nevertheless, use the \acro{TC} font version of the symbol if you are producing documents using Knuth's Computer Modern Fonts. -The \Package{latin9} input encoding defined by the \Package{inputenc} -package has a euro character defined (character position 164, occupied -in other \acro{ISO} Latin character sets by the ``currency symbol''). -The encoding uses the command \csx{texteuro} for the character; at -present that command is \emph{only} available from the -\Package{textcomp} package. There is a Microsoft code page position, -too, but standardisation of such things proceeds via rather different -routes and the \LaTeX{} project hasn't yet been given details of the -change. +The each of the \Package{latin9} and \Package{latin10} input encoding +definitions for the \Package{inputenc} package has a euro character +defined (character position 164, occupied in other \acro{ISO} Latin +character sets by the ``currency symbol'' \textcurrency {}, which +ordinary people seldom see except in character-set listings\dots{}). +The \acro{TC} encoding file offers the command \csx{texteuro} for the +character; that command is (probably) \emph{only} available from the +\Package{textcomp} package. + +Use of the \acro{TC} encoding character may therefore made via +\csx{texteuro} or via the Latin-9 or Latin-10 character in ordinary +text. + +Note that there is a Microsoft code page position (128), too, and that has +been added to \Package{inputenc} tables for \acro{CP}1252 and +\acro{CP}1257. (There's another position in \acro{CP}858, which has +it in place of ``dotless i'' in \acro{CP850}; the standardisation of +these things remains within Microsoft, so one can never tell what will +come next\dots{}) Outline fonts which contain nothing but Euro symbols are available (free) from |