+------------------------------------------------------+ | The Euro Symbol Package for LaTeX by Henrik Theiling | | Version 1.4 | | , http://www.theiling.de/ | +------------------------------------------------------+ Hi! This is the Euro symbol package I created. It provides a new symbol to be used for the new European currency symbol, the Euro. The specifications were taken from the c't magazine 11/98 p.211 from from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Book of the Year 2002. There is a style file (sty/eurosym.sty), some Metafont source files (src/*.mf) and a LaTeX file (doc/testeuro.tex). For installation, put this somewere where LaTeX can find it. Further documentation can be found in doc/testeuro.dvi. You can only see the Euro symbols in the text if you have installed the package successfully, though. System Wide Installation Done by the Superuser ---------------------------------------------- An example follows. Substitute $TEXMF with something that matches your installation (search for texmf on your system if you don't know where it is). If you are the superuser, move the eurosym/src directory to $TEXMF/fonts/source/eurosym, the eurosym/tfm directory to $TEXMF/fonts/tfm/eurosym and the eurosym/sty directory to $TEXMF/tex/latex/eurosym. Use Installation ---------------- Choose a directory for this installation, say $HOME/lib/tex/eurosym and make sure that the programmes `latex', `dvips', `xdvi', and possible other TeX related programmes find the files by ensuring that the environment variables TEXINPUTS, MFINPUT and TFMFONTS point to $HOME/lib/tex// (double slash at the end to ensure sub-directory recursion) as well. See the file doc/runlatex for an example. Testing ------- Go to the doc subdirectory, compile testeuro.tex with latex and read it with xdvi. Ignore some warnings about underfull hboxes which occur because there is a three column part of text which TeX can't typeset perfectly. Also ignore the warnings about unavailable shapes of cmr. TODO ---- Implement the OCR Euro symbols. (long term project...) BUGS ---- - testeuro.tex creates warnings about unavailable shapes of cmr although I tried my best to make the scope of the \olshape command include the \officialeuro{} command only. - FIXED: at least on my machine, dvips and xdvi produce checksum mismatches for some unknown reason. - FIXED: problems with names: `eurosymbol' and `eurosym' were both used. **Henrik