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| The Euro Symbol Package for LaTeX by Henrik Theiling           |
| <theiling@coli.uni-sb.de>, http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~theiling |
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Hi!

This is the Euro symbol package I created.  It provides a new symbol
to be used for the new European currency symbol, the Euro.  The
specifications were taken from the c't magazine 11/98 p.211.

In this directory, there is a style file, some Metafont source files
and a LaTeX file.  For installation, put this somewere where
LaTeX can find it.

System Wide Installation Done by the Superuser
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An example follows.  Substitute $TEXMF with something that
matches your installation (search for texmf on your system
if you don't know where it is).

If you are the superuser, move the eurosymbol/src directory
to $TEXMF/fonts/source/eurosymbol, the eurosymbol/tfm directory
to $TEXMF/fonts/tfm/eurosymbol and the eurosymbol/sty directory
to $TEXMF/tex/latex/eurosymbol.

Use Installation
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Choose a directory for this installation, say $HOME/lib/tex/eurosymbol
and make sure that the programmes `latex', `dvips', `xdvi', and
possible other TeX related programmes find the files by ensuring
that the environment variables TEXINPUTS, MFINPUT and TFMFONTS
point to $HOME/lib/tex// (double slash at the end to ensure
sub-directory recursion) as well.  See the runlatex file for
an example.

Testing
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Compile texteuro.tex with latex and read it with xdvi.

TODO
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  Implement the OCR Euro symbols. (long term project...)


BUGS
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  This package is bug free. :-)

  The previous sentence means: the bugs you find I don't know yet.
  Tell me about them.


WEIRDOS
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  Some things about the dimensions were guessed from the context.  In
  one case I thing this guess is especially uncertain.  This concerns
  the amount the inner two horizontal lines go beyond the left edge
  of the symbol.  The were three vertical help lines in the picture.
  Two cutting the corners of the ends on the horizontal bars of the
  symbol on the left, and one cutting the upper right corner of the
  inner circle.  Now, I though, the left most vertical line's distance
  to the outer circle of the symbol equalled the distance of the
  right vertical line to the virtual right end of the outer circle.
  The outer arc isn't drawn on the left. Point 14 marks this in the
  Metafont source.

  HOWEVER.  The description is uncomprehensible without drawings
  anyway and I /think/ it's right.

**Henrik