Re: \pounds problem

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>]

"Christopher G D Tipper" <ctipper@hol.gr> writes:

> I am trying to produce a £ symbol. I just want to use the standard
> TeX \pounds as I don't want to be bothered with \language[uk] or
> \useencoding[win]. The problem is that I get an "Undefined control
> sequence" when \pounds is parsed. It seems to be a ConTeXT problem
> because this particular document (which I have fully converted)
> compiles under LaTeX and as I understand it \pounds is a TeX macro
> which should be the same in LaTeX and ConTeXT.

What source said it was part of plain TeX?  I get this:

    kali:2:ecashin /tmp$ tex
    This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
    **\relax

    *\pounds
    ! Undefined control sequence.
    <*> \pounds

    ? X
    No pages of output.
    Transcript written on texput.log.
    kali:2:ecashin /tmp$ 

... on my tex, so "\pounds" isn't part of the plain macropackage.
It's probably a LaTeXism.

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