Re: \pounds problem

["Christopher G D Tipper" <ctipper@hol.gr>]

Well, I have played around a bit, and I find the following in enco-win:

\defineactivecharacter © {\copyright{}}
\defineactivecharacter £ {\pounds{}}

so useencoding[win] you say and put £ instead of \pounds? Sorry, it says, "Undefined Control Sequence".

Now \copyright does the right thing in ConTeXT source so I conclude that both \copyright and \pounds are native TeX macros (ConTeXT is just a rather large set of TeX macros, you realise, and ConTeXT leaves much of the math stuff alone, which is why LaTeX and ConTeXT have parctically no difference on the math side of things).

So I try \language[uk} and make sure I've compiled the \uk format? No difference.

So I'm stuck, and it looks like you've got the same problem too. Hans?

Christopher

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed L Cashin" <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>
To: "Christopher G D Tipper" <ctipper@hol.gr>
Cc: "ConTeXT Mailing List" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: \pounds problem

> "Christopher G D Tipper" <ctipper@hol.gr> writes:
> 
> > I am trying to produce a £ symbol. I just want to use the standard
> > TeX \pounds as I don't want to be bothered with \language[uk] or
> > \useencoding[win]. The problem is that I get an "Undefined control
> > sequence" when \pounds is parsed. It seems to be a ConTeXT problem
> > because this particular document (which I have fully converted)
> > compiles under LaTeX and as I understand it \pounds is a TeX macro
> > which should be the same in LaTeX and ConTeXT.
> 
> What source said it was part of plain TeX?  I get this:
> 
>     kali:2:ecashin /tmp$ tex
>     This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
>     **\relax
>     
>     *\pounds
>     ! Undefined control sequence.
>     <*> \pounds
>                
>     ? X
>     No pages of output.
>     Transcript written on texput.log.
>     kali:2:ecashin /tmp$ 
> 
> ... on my tex, so "\pounds" isn't part of the plain macropackage.
> It's probably a LaTeXism.
> 
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