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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-euro.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-euro.html index da29d36ca3c..97e998dc256 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-euro.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-euro.html @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label euro</title> </head><body> <h3>Typesetting the Euro sign</h3> -<p/>The European currency “Euro” is represented by a symbol of somewhat -dubious design, but it’s an important currency and (La)TeX users -need to typeset it. +<p/>The European currency “Euro” (€) is represented by a symbol +of somewhat dubious design, but it’s an important currency and +(La)TeX users need to typeset it. <p/>Note that the Commission of the European Community at first deemed that the Euro symbol should always be set in a sans-serif font; fortunately, this eccentric ruling has now been rescinded, and one may @@ -20,15 +20,23 @@ text. The design of the symbol in the TC fonts is not universally loved… Nevertheless, use the TC font version of the symbol if you are producing documents using Knuth’s Computer Modern Fonts. -<p/>The <i>latin9</i> input encoding defined by the <i>inputenc</i> -package has a euro character defined (character position 164, occupied -in other ISO Latin character sets by the “currency symbol”). -The encoding uses the command <code>\</code><code>texteuro</code> for the character; at -present that command is <em>only</em> available from the -<i>textcomp</i> 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. +<p/>The each of the <i>latin9</i> and <i>latin10</i> input encoding +definitions for the <i>inputenc</i> package has a euro character +defined (character position 164, occupied in other ISO Latin +character sets by the “currency symbol” ¤, which +ordinary people seldom see except in character-set listings…). +The TC encoding file offers the command <code>\</code><code>texteuro</code> for the +character; that command is (probably) <em>only</em> available from the +<i>textcomp</i> package. +<p/>Use of the TC encoding character may therefore made via +<code>\</code><code>texteuro</code> or via the Latin-9 or Latin-10 character in ordinary +text. +<p/>Note that there is a Microsoft code page position (128), too, and that has +been added to <i>inputenc</i> tables for CP1252 and +CP1257. (There’s another position in CP858, which has +it in place of “dotless i” in CP850; the standardisation of +these things remains within Microsoft, so one can never tell what will +come next…) <p/>Outline fonts which contain nothing but Euro symbols are available (free) from <a href="ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe">Adobe</a> — @@ -71,13 +79,13 @@ good things. <i>china2e</i> (whose primary aim is Chinese dates and suchlike matters) and the <i>eurosym</i> fonts. <dl> -<dt><tt><i>china2e bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/china2e.zip">macros/latex/contrib/china2e</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/china2e/">browse the directory</a>) -<dt><tt><i>EC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ec.zip">fonts/ec</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ec/">browse the directory</a>) -<dt><tt><i>euro fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro.zip">fonts/euro</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro/">browse the directory</a>) -<dt><tt><i>euro-ce fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro-ce.zip">fonts/euro-ce</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro-ce/">browse the directory</a>) -<dt><tt><i>eurofont.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont.zip">macros/latex/contrib/eurofont</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont/">browse the directory</a>) -<dt><tt><i>eurosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym.zip">fonts/eurosym</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym/">browse the directory</a>) -<dt><tt><i>marvosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym.zip">fonts/psfonts/marvosym</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym/">browse the directory</a>) +<dt><tt><i>china2e bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/china2e.zip">macros/latex/contrib/china2e</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/china2e/">browse the directory</a>) +<dt><tt><i>EC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ec.zip">fonts/ec</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ec/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/ec.html">catalogue entry</a> +<dt><tt><i>euro fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/euro.zip">fonts/euro</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/euro/">browse the directory</a>) +<dt><tt><i>euro-ce fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/euro-ce.zip">fonts/euro-ce</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/euro-ce/">browse the directory</a>) +<dt><tt><i>eurofont.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont.zip">macros/latex/contrib/eurofont</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont/">browse the directory</a>) +<dt><tt><i>eurosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/eurosym.zip">fonts/eurosym</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/eurosym/">browse the directory</a>) +<dt><tt><i>marvosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/psfonts/marvosym.zip">fonts/psfonts/marvosym</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/psfonts/marvosym/">browse the directory</a>) <dt><tt><i>textcomp.sty</i></tt><dd>Part of the LaTeX distribution. </dl> <p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=euro">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=euro</a> |