From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2168 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \pounds problem Date: 31 May 2000 15:10:38 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <000501bfcb2b$d0919fa0$530761c3@chris> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392955 6615 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:09:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "ConTeXT Mailing List" Original-To: "Christopher G D Tipper" In-Reply-To: "Christopher G D Tipper"'s message of "Wed, 31 May 2000 21:12:01 +0300" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2168 "Christopher G D Tipper" writes: > I am trying to produce a £ symbol. I just want to use the standard > TeX \pounds as I don't want to be bothered with \language[uk] or > \useencoding[win]. The problem is that I get an "Undefined control > sequence" when \pounds is parsed. It seems to be a ConTeXT problem > because this particular document (which I have fully converted) > compiles under LaTeX and as I understand it \pounds is a TeX macro > which should be the same in LaTeX and ConTeXT. What source said it was part of plain TeX? I get this: kali:2:ecashin /tmp$ 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. -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/