Re: Euro Symbol

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:57 PM 9/10/2001 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>http://levana.de/en/type/euro/euro.tex

nice picture, but you need to fix the boundingbox:

setbounds currentpicture to
   (xpart bottombarleft,ypart o1) --
   (xpart c8, ypart o1) --
   (xpart c8,ypart ulcorner currentpicture) --
   (xpart bottombarleft,ypart ulcorner currentpicture)-- cycle ;

if show_labels:
   draw boundingbox currentpicture withcolor red ;
fi ;

the right bbline is wrong, since you need an extra point between c2 and c5 
which will replace the xpart c8.

it would make a nice example for the metafun manual [explore a couple of 
alternatives and so].

How about the following addition:

\startuniqueMPgraphic{euro}{height}
   \includeMPgraphic{euro1} ;
   currentpicture := currentpicture ysized \MPvar{height} ;
\stopuniqueMPgraphic

\definesymbol[euro][\uniqueMPgraphic{euro}{height=1.5ex}]

\symbol[euro] \tfd \symbol[euro]

that way you get the euro scaled proportionally to the running text

Hans
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