From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Elliot Clifton <cliftoo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pound sign £ output as italic dollar sign [urgent]
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:59:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBF584C.5000904@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBEB9EE.5000306@gmail.com>
On 20-10-2010 11:44, Elliot Clifton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was just about to send my book to press when I noticed the '£' appears
> in my PDF as an italic dollar sign.
>
> I looked it up in the archive and google. Have tried \pound and
> \sterling -- nothing seems to work.
>
> It's very strange, when I output the chapter's product separately from
> the project the £ appears as expected. When I generate the project it
> appears as italic $.
this depends on the font ... normally it should work out ok if you use \$
there is some historic issue here: in the cmr there were different
characters in the same slot for italic / regular
afaik tex gyre is normal
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2010-10-20 9:44 Elliot Clifton
2010-10-20 9:59 ` Mojca Miklavec
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