\sterling doesn't work in font-pos

\sterling doesn't work in font-pos

[Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen]

Hi there,

The macro \sterling results in {\it\$} which is an italics dollar sign ($)
when I use:

  \setupbodyfont[pos]

Currently I solved it by saying: \char163, but that's not portable in any
way.

I guess this only applies to Hans and Taco, the pos font-environment uses
the texnansi Times/Helvetica/Courier tfm's (which I happen to use a lot).

Gilbert.

Re: \sterling doesn't work in font-pos

[Taco Hoekwater]

>>>>> "Gilbert" == Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen <gilbert@login-bv.com> writes:

    Gilbert> Hi there,
    Gilbert> The macro \sterling results in {\it\$} which is an italics dollar sign ($)
    Gilbert> when I use:

    Gilbert>   \setupbodyfont[pos]

    Gilbert> Currently I solved it by saying: \char163, but that's not portable in any
    Gilbert> way.

Agree. There are more chars affected by this. 

Hans, I think the best thing we can do is add lines to enco-* for the
next update:

% [\redefinecharacter sterling]

\startencoding[texnansi]

\definecharacter sterling 163
....

\stopencoding

There are many more of these things (\paragraph,\dagger,\cent etc.),
and almost all of these text symbols do depend on font encoding.

Taco