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The fonts are called Text Companion +(TC) fonts, and offer the same range +of faces as do the EC fonts themselves. The +<i>textcomp</i> package provides a <code>\</code><code>texteuro</code> command for +accessing the symbol, which selects a symbol to match the surrounding +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>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> - +the file is packaged as a <i>Windows</i> self-extracting +executable, but it may be decoded as a <code>.zip</code> format achive on other +operating systems. +The <i>euro</i> bundle contains metrics, <i>dvips</i> map +files, and macros (for Plain TeX and LaTeX), for using these +fonts in documents. LaTeX users will find two packages in the +bundle: <i>eurosans</i> only offers the sans-serif version (to +conform with the obsolete ruling about sans-serif-only symbols; the +package provides the +command <code>\</code><code>euro</code>), whereas <i>europs</i> matches the Euro symbol +with the surrounding text (providing the command <code>\</code><code>EUR</code>). To use +either package +with the <i>latin9</i> encoding, you need to define <code>\</code><code>texteuro</code> +as an alias for the euro command the package defines. +<p>The Adobe fonts are probably the best bet for use in non-Computer +Modern environments. They are apparently designed to fit with Adobe +Times, Helvetica and Courier, but can probably fit with a wider range +of modern fonts. +<p>The <i>eurofont</i> package provides a compendious analysis of the +"problem of the euro symbol" in its documentation, and offers macros +for configuring the source of the glyphs to be used; however, it seems +rather large for everyday use. +<p>The <i>euro-ce</i> bundle is a rather pleasing Metafont-only design +providing Euro symbols in a number of shapes. The file +<i>euro-ce.tex</i>, in the distribution, offers hints as to how a +Plain TeX user might make use of the fonts. +<p>Euro symbols are found in several other places, which we list here for +completeness. +<p>The <i>marvosym</i> fonts contain a Euro symbol among many other +good things. + + + + + +<p>Other Metafont-based bundles containing Euro symbols are to be found in +<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="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/china2e.zip">macros/latex/contrib/china2e</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/china2e.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/china2e/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>EC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ec.zip">fonts/ec</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ec.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ec/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>euro fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/euro.zip">fonts/euro</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/euro.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>euro-ce fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/euro-ce.zip">fonts/euro-ce</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/euro-ce.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/euro-ce/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>eurofont.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont.zip">macros/latex/contrib/eurofont</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eurofont/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>eurosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym.zip">fonts/eurosym</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>marvosym fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym.zip">fonts/psfonts/marvosym</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/marvosym/">browse</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> +</body> |