I clearly have some misunderstanding about the typesetting of the euro sign. In an attempt to implement the MathTimes font and expert fontset, I came across a problem with typesetting the euro. I could not redefine the \texteuro. In \showcharacters it stays empty. Doing \definecharacter texteuro to_some_value in a typescript does not work (giving: Runaway argument?) The euro does appear when I define it explicitely (as coming from the marvosym font): \def\euro{\symbol[europe][EUR]} But then \texteuro is still unaffected and therefore doing "\enableregime[mac] € (euro)" does not work. Any pointer how to solve this? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer
Hans van der Meer wrote:
I clearly have some misunderstanding about the typesetting of the euro sign.
In an attempt to implement the MathTimes font and expert fontset, I came across a problem with typesetting the euro.
I could not redefine the \texteuro. In \showcharacters it stays empty. Doing \definecharacter texteuro to_some_value in a typescript does not work (giving: Runaway argument?)
has to do with \definecharacter being space delimited and typescripts being space ignorant you define characters in an encoding vector, so \startencoding[whatever] \definecharacter .... \stopencoding which you can do anyplace
The euro does appear when I define it explicitely (as coming from the marvosym font): \def\euro{\symbol[europe][EUR]} But then \texteuro is still unaffected and therefore doing "\enableregime[mac] � (euro)" does not work.
i don't know if there is an euro in math times
Any pointer how to solve this?
this is one of the unfortunate trial and error situations (depends on the font) Hans
On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:36, Hans Hagen wrote:
I could not redefine the \texteuro. In \showcharacters it stays empty. Doing \definecharacter texteuro to_some_value in a typescript does not work (giving: Runaway argument?)
has to do with \definecharacter being space delimited and typescripts being space ignorant
you define characters in an encoding vector, so \startencoding[whatever] \definecharacter .... \stopencoding which you can do anyplace
I now put "\startencoding[texnansi]\definecharacter texteuro {\symbol [europe][EUR]}\stopencoding" in the Tex document sourcetext for a font having texnansi encoding but no euro symbol; that works. However, it seems a bit awkward to have to remember to do this for each document -- and remember to delete/change it when another font is chosen for the document. As you explained, in contrast to for example "\def\euro{\symbol [europe][EUR]}" this definition does not work inside a typescript. Is the only generic solution perhaps to be found in special encoding files coupled to specific fonts? I.e. having a separate texnansi coding for fonts with and without euro symbol? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer
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