Where's the pound (£) sign gone?

Where's the pound (£) sign gone?

[Mark Ainsworth]

Well after much playing with font settings I am still confused. Can anyone
out there help.

If I use:

\setupoutput[pdftex]
\usetypescript[berry][ec]
\usetypescript[modern][ec]
\setupbodyfont[modern,10pt]

\starttext
Where has the pound $\pound$ sign gone
\stoptext

Then the output doesn't contain any sign. If I then use:

\setupoutput[pdftex]
\usetypescript[berry]
\usetypescript[modern]
\setupbodyfont[modern,10pt]

\starttext
Where has the pound $\pound$ sign gone
\stoptext

I end up with a dollar ($) sign.

So how can I get the good old British pound sign. (No I don't want to
convert to Euros!)

On another track, is there any way of getting pdftex to use the pfb concrete
fonts, rather than the bitmap versions without a major hack of my map files?
Has someone written a simple little routine to do the patching
automatically. They print out ok, but the on-screen versions are really
naff.

Thanks

Mark.


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Re: [NTG-context] Where's the pound (£) sign gone?

[Helmut Schwertner]

Hello Mark,

try this:

> \setupoutput[pdftex]
> \usetypescript[berry][ec]
> \usetypescript[modern][ec]
> \setupbodyfont[modern,10pt]

\starttext
Here is the pound \pound{} sign. And there the Dollar \$
\stoptext


Greetings,

Helmut


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Re: [NTG-context] Where's the pound (£) sign gone?

[Mari Voipio]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Mark Ainsworth wrote:

> So how can I get the good old British pound sign. (No I don't want to
> convert to Euros!)

If you turn on right kind of encoding, you can even get the typed pound
sign to look like a pound. Makes a bunch of other symbols work, too, like
the degree sign (guess why I know this...).

I'm ConTeXting in Windows (NT/2000/XP), so the setting for me is

\enableregime[il1]

(il1 for Iso-Latin 1)

Some of the other regimes (like \enableregime[ec])  are mentioned in the
"Fonts in ConTeXt" manual on p. 16. I think there is also an
(undocumented) \enableregime[mac] for Mac users, but I might be wrong.


Mari
(whose NTEmacs still doesn't understand the euro, so so much for OUR
currency...)