Re: texteuro

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hans van der Meer wrote:

> I clearly have some misunderstanding about the typesetting of the  
> euro sign.
>
> In an attempt to implement the MathTimes font and expert fontset, I  
> came across a problem with typesetting the euro.
>
> I could not redefine the \texteuro. In \showcharacters it stays empty.
> Doing \definecharacter texteuro to_some_value in a typescript does  
> not work (giving: Runaway argument?)

has to do with \definecharacter being space delimited and typescripts 
being space ignorant

you define characters in an encoding vector, so

\startencoding[whatever]

   \definecharacter ....

\stopencoding

which you can do anyplace

> The euro does appear when I define it explicitely (as coming from the  
> marvosym font):
>     \def\euro{\symbol[europe][EUR]}
> But then \texteuro is still unaffected and therefore doing  
> "\enableregime[mac] � (euro)" does not work.

i don't know if there is an euro in math times

>
> Any pointer how to solve this?


this is one of the unfortunate trial and error situations (depends on 
the font)

Hans