============================================================ The LaTeX package eurosans version 3.0 ============================================================ Walter Schmidt was@VR-Web.de 2002-01-09 Usage ----- The LaTeX package "eurosans" provides a convenient LaTeX interface for the free Adobe Euro symbol fonts in Type 1 (PostScript) format. Loading of the package \usepackage{eurosans} provides a new command \euro which typesets an Euro symbol. The weight (medium or boldface), shape (upright or oblique) and width (regular or condensed) varies according to the font currently selected. The symbol blends well with most typefaces, except for typewriter fonts. The medium/upright/regular variant meets the official design by the EC. The Euro Fonts can be scaled, in order to match the other fonts in the document, by loading the package with the option [scaled=...]. For instance, to use the Euro fonts at 90% of their `natural' size: \usepackage[scaled=0.9]{eurosans} The eurosans package requires the package keyval.sty, which is part of the `graphics' bundle and should be available with any decent LaTeX system. The font family "eurosans" -------------------------- The command \euro switches to a particular font family named "eurosans", which is set up with the encoding "U" only. NFSS classification: series shapes PostScript FontName -------------------------------------------------------- m n,it,sl EuroSans-Regular, EuroSans-Italic b,bx n,it,sl EuroSans-Bold, EuroSans-BoldItalic mc n,it,sl EuroMono-Regular, EuroMono-Italic sbc,bc n,it,sl EuroMono-Bold, EuroMono-BoldItalic (The EuroMono typefaces are actually condensed versions of EuroSans.) Obtaning and installing the Euro Fonts -------------------------------------- (1) Install the font metrics (.tfm files), to be found in the CTAN directory fonts/euro/tfm. (2) Install a font map file for dvips, pdfTeX etc, to be found in the CTAN directory fonts/euro/dvips. A font map file and the .tfm files for the Euro fonts may already be provided in your TeX system, so that you need not install them manually; please, consult its documentation! (3) Due to legal reasons, the actual Type1 fonts (.pfb and .afm files) are _not_ distributed from CTAN. They can be obtained from free from Adobe: You will receive a self-extracting archive "eurofont.exe" for DOS/Win, which can be unpacked using Info-Zip's "unzip" program, too. The archive file can also be downloaded immediately: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe ftp://ftp-pac.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe (4) Move the .pfb and .afm files from the archive to a suitable directory of your TeX system. When using the map file "zpeu.map", you also have to rename the files as follows: _1______.PFB -> zpeurs.pfb _1B_____.PFB -> zpeubs.pfb _1I_____.PFB -> zpeuris.pfb _1BI____.PFB -> zpeubis.pfb _2______.PFB -> zpeurt.pfb _2B_____.PFB -> zpeubt.pfb _2I_____.PFB -> zpeurit.pfb _2BI____.PFB -> zpeubit.pfb _3______.PFB -> zpeur.pfb _3B_____.PFB -> zpeub.pfb _3I_____.PFB -> zpeuri.pfb _3BI____.PFB -> zpeubi.pfb ...and ditto for the .AFM files! When using the map file "zpeu-origname.map", you need NOT rename the files; however, on Unix you should make sure that the names are lower case. Known problems -------------- With dvips prior to version 5.83, partial font downloading will fail with an error message like this one: File <_1bi____.pfb> ended before all chars have been found We scan 0 Chars from 226 Lst seen token was '/Euro' Partial font downloading can be turned off by calling dvips with the option -j0 or by specifying j0 in the dvips configuration file. This bug has been fixed with dvips version 5.83. History ------- v3.0 2002-01-09 optional scaling v2.1 2000-06-15 the EuroMono fonts are used for the condensed series v2.0 1999-07-21 changed the font names acording to "Karl Berry" scheme v1.0 1999-01-19 \euro is now robust; documentation update v0.9 1998-11-09 first public version -- finis