============================================================ The LaTeX package eurosans version 1.0 ============================================================ Walter Schmidt 1999-01-19 Description ----------- The LaTeX package "eurosans" provides a convenient LaTeX interface for the free Adobe Euro fonts in Type 1 (PostScript) format. Loading the package defines a new command \euro which typesets an Euro symbol. The symbol is always taken from the "EuroSans" family, with the weight (medium or boldface) and shape (normal or oblique) varying according to the font currently selected. This Euro symbol meets the official design and matches almost any font family very well, except for typewriter fonts. The command name \euro has been chosen to be the same as in the "eurosym" package, which loads the "eurosym" MF fonts. Prerequisites ------------- Get the Adobe Euro fonts from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe or ftp://ftp-pac.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe This is a self-extracting archive for DOS/Win, which can also be unpacked using Info-Zip's 'unzip' program. Furthermore, you need the TeX font metrics ( = .tfm files ) for these fonts; they are available in the CTAN directory fonts/euro. A suitable .map file for dvips is also provided there. Using the Euro fonts with dvips ------------------------------- With dvips prior to version 5.83 partial font downloading will fail with an error message like this one: File <_1bi____.pfb> ended before all chars have been found. We scan 0 Chars from 226 Last seen token was '/Euro' Partial font downloading can be turned off by calling dvips with the option -j0 or by specifying j0 in the dvips configuration file. This bug has been fixed with dvips version 5.83. History ------- v1.0 1999-01-19 \euro is now robust; documentation update v0.9 1998-11-09 first public version -- finis