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Adobe's Euro currency fonts for LaTeX
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[ Note: this Europs package has been merged with the fonts/euro package
so the paths in this documentation aren't correct any more. You find all
support files apart from the Adobe fonts itself in the directory
CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/euro.
Reinhard Zierke, 09-Aug-1999 ]
1. Introduction
---------------
This is yet another attempt to provide the Euro currency symbol for LaTeX.
There are already several solutions, but each with limited possibilities:
- The package marvosym (by Thomas Henlich) provides a PostScript font with
four glyphs: The official Euro symbol, and three not-so-official shapes
which are more convenient when using the symbol together with Times,
Helvetica or Courier.
- The package eurosym (by Henrik Theiling) provides the Euro symbol in
several shapes, among them one that is constructed from the exact
specifications. The font itself is done with Metafont, which is not
a problem by itself. But if you want to create PDFs containing the Euro
symbol, you're bound for trouble.
- Finally, there is a set of tfm files for Adobe's Euro fonts, which were
placed on CTAN on behalf of Y&Y. The included (plain) TeX-example works,
but leaves much to be desired.
2. This Package
---------------
So, several solutions, but every single one has it's drawbacks. So I decided
to try to hack something together, and that's what I came up with:
- I use the twelve fonts distributed by Adobe, as the Y&Y package does.
- The font names conform to Karl Berry's naming scheme. The following
list gives the PostScript names and the corresponding TeX names. The
two other file names in the list are used later:
PostScript TeX PC Macintosh
EuroSans-Regular zpeurs.pfb _1______.PFB EuroSanReg
EuroSans-Italic zpeuris.pfb _1I_____.PFB EuroSanIta
EuroSans-Bold zpeubs.pfb _1B_____.PFB EuroSanBol
EuroSans-BoldItalic zpeubis.pfb _1BI____.PFB EuroSanBolIta
EuroSerif-Regular zpeur.pfb _3______.PFB EuroSerReg
EuroSerif-Italic zpeuri.pfb _3I_____.PFB EuroSerIta
EuroSerif-Bold zpeub.pfb _3B_____.PFB EuroSerBol
EuroSerif-BoldItalic zpeubi.pfb _3BI____.PFB EuroSerBolIta
EuroMono-Regular zpeurt.pfb _2______.PFB EuroMonReg
EuroMono-Italic zpeurit.pfb _2I_____.PFB EuroMonIta
EuroMono-Bold zpeubt.pfb _2B_____.PFB EuroMonBol
EuroMono-BoldItalic zpeubit.pfb _2BI____.PFB EuroMonBolIta
- I have included fd files, so that within each of the three font families
the usual NFSS commands for changing series and shape work.
- The file europs.sty defines five commands for selecting the Euro symbol:
\EURhv selects EuroSans
\EURtm selects EuroSerif
\EURcr selects EuroMono
\EUR selects one of the three above, depending on the current
context
\EURofc selects EuroSans Regular independent of context
N.B.: This is the only "official" Euro symbol. If you
want to conform with the rules of the EU (or
whoever), you may only use this symbol.
The first four names are stolen from marvosym. Although the association
with Helvetica, Times and Courier is not necessarily intelligent, these
names are easy to remember.
So, you can simply say
\textsf{just my 2 \EUR}
\textbf{\textit{just my 2 \EUR}}
and you get the symbol you expect.
3. Installation
---------------
This archive consists of the following files:
dvips
zpeu.map
pdftex
zpeu.pdfmap
tex
europs.dtx europs.ins
eutest.ps eutest.tex
tfm
zpeub.tfm zpeubi.tfm zpeubis.tfm zpeubit.tfm
zpeubs.tfm zpeubt.tfm zpeur.tfm zpeuri.tfm
zpeuris.tfm zpeurit.tfm zpeurs.tfm zpeurt.tfm
Install the tfm files in the appropriate place, depending on your TeX version.
You will need the Type 1 files from Adobe. For legal reasons they cannot be
included in this package. You have to fetch them personally, e.g. from
http://www.adobe.com/type/eurofont.html
or
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/mac/all/eurofont.sea.hqx
You can either unpack one of these archives on an appropriate computer, or
you can use the freely distributable "unzip" to extract the files from the
file "eurofont.exe". Once you've done this, you have to rename the fonts
according to the table shown above, i.e. _1______.PFB is renamed to
zpeurs.pfb, and so on. If you have downloaded and unpacked the Macintosh
archive, you have to extract the POST part from the resource fork of the
fonts. This can e.g. be done with the program "macfont". It is available
at your nearest CTAN mirror. Once you got the PFB files, put them into the
type1 directory of your TeX installation.
Append(!!) zpeu.map to psfonts.map, and, if you are using pdfTeX, zpeu.pdfmap
to the appropriate mapping file, so that dvips and pdfTeX know how to handle
these fonts. Note: dvips prior to 5.80 has problems with partial font
downloading in general, and with Adobe's Euro fonts in particular. You can
say "dvips -j0 ..." to switch off partial font downloading completely, but
this may increase the size of the generated PostScript file. You should
really get the most recent version of dvips, which can be found at
http://www.radicaleye.com/
Most TeX distributions include new versions of the individual programs quite
fast, so you may want to check your distribution for a recent version of
dvips.
Process europs.ins with TeX or LaTeX. This will produce a style file and
three font definition files. Move them to a place where LaTeX can find them.
Now you should be able to use the Euro currency symbol.
4. Bugs
-------
Probably many. If you find one, or want a feature to be added, please contact
Joern Clausen
University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Technology
joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielfeld.DE
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