euro

euro

[Hans Hagen]

Hi, 

Some time ago Tobias, Taco and I discussed the euro symbol. Lucky us,
adobe released some fonts containing this symbol. Unlucky us, they are
12 fonts, each with one symbol (serif, sans, mono) * (regular, bold,
italic, bolditalic). 

Out of efficiency reasons, we cannot use a dedicated family for this
symbol, but I extended the symbol definition mechanism to deal with
this. This means that the next (major) release will offer 

\euro 

which adapts to style (rm,ss,tt) and alternative (tf,bf,it,sl,bi,bs) and
size as well. 

This leaves the problem of distributing the fonts. I renamed the funny
_2bi_____.pdf etc names to something more useful. 

I'm thinking of setting up a seperate font directory with fonts in the
right encodings (although many can be used, we only advocate the best). 

I guess Taco has his ideas on this. 

Hans 

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Re: Euro

[Frans Goddijn]

> you can add (uncomment) in cont-sys.tex:
> adobe ones: \usesymbols[eur]
> vogel one: \usesymbolset[mvs]

I have one cont-sys.* nin \tex\context\base but it doesn't have that entry,
just:

%%%%%%
% Enabling \CONTEXT\ navigation symbols as well as \euro's.
\usesymbols [nav,mvs]
\setupsymbolset [navigation 1] % not that clever
\setupinteraction [\c!symboolset=navigation 1]
%%%%%%

So I'll search for another more complete copy...

Groet!

Frans

Re: Euro

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:57 PM 3/12/2002 +0100, you wrote:

>I wonder: is this simple to implement in ConTeXt today (for the clever guys
>out here) since these Adobe files are there up for grabs anyway?

you can add (uncomment) in cont-sys.tex:

adobe ones: \usesymbols[eur]

vogel one: \usesymbolset[mvs]

with respect to the adobe ones, you need to rename the funny adobe number 
names to more meaningful ones (see symb-eur.tex)

[the symbols scale with the fonts, and the adobe euros with the font style too]

Hans

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Euro

[Frans Goddijn]

On
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/english/services/software/latex/localtex/eurosymbol
.html
there's a brief explanation of the way the Euro can be implemented in LaTeX.
I got the big zipfile from
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/english/services/software/latex/localtex/zipped/eur
osymbol.zip
and there's a whole bunch of files in there. Quite confusing to start with
but not surprising as there are several Euro packages shrinkwrapped into one
bag.
The AFM/PFB files need to be retrieved from yet another address:
www.adobe.com/type/eurofont.html

One of the packages is more purist and provides the sans serif Eurosign
which still changes along to its environment into normal, bold and
(bold-)italic like it should. The other one (europs.sty also morphs into a
serif symbol, a typewriter symbol et cetera which I like better.

A while ago I recall there was some discussion about the possible ways
someone could maybe develop a Euro solution for ConTeXt.

I wonder: is this simple to implement in ConTeXt today (for the clever guys
out here) since these Adobe files are there up for grabs anyway?

Groet,

Frans