Re: Euro font questions

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:30 PM 7/10/2002 +0200, Rob van Swol wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to see that the Euro symbol also changes with style, i.e
>Italic or bold. The follwing works (using the Adobe files) to get the
>'sans symbol'
>
>\definefontsynonym[EuroSans][rzpeurs]
>\definefontsynonym[EuroSansBold][rzpeubs]
>\definefontsynonym[EuroSansItalic][rzpeuris]
>\definefontsynonym[EuroSansBoldItalic][rzpeubis]
>\definesymbol[euro][\getglyph{EuroSans-Regular}{\char160}]
>\def\euro{\symbol[euro]}
>
>It is clear that I only get EuroSans; from reading the manual I
>understood that I can use 'Euro' to get all mappings However, when I try
>to use
>
>\definesymbol[euro][\getglyph{Euro}{\char160}]
>
>I get a message file Euro not found

do you use the symbol lib symb-eur? \usesymbols[eur]

you need to have the adobe euro fonts on your system and properly named 
(they have stupid names like 1___ and so, and they may not be 
redistributed, so some handy work is needed here)

>Finally, would it be possible to replace the glyph 160 permanently with
>the Euro symbol, so that when I type a the ASCII character coding 160 I
>get the Euro symbol.?

that is real tricky, and depends on the availability of the symbol in the font

(the encoding files have euro already defined, so \euro is a valid symbol)

Hans

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