Adobe's Euro currency fonts for LaTeX ===================================== [ Note: this Europs package has been merged with the fonts/euro package so the paths in this documentation aren't correct any more. You find all support files apart from the Adobe fonts itself in the directory CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/euro. Reinhard Zierke, 09-Aug-1999 ] 1. Introduction --------------- This is yet another attempt to provide the Euro currency symbol for LaTeX. There are already several solutions, but each with limited possibilities: - The package marvosym (by Thomas Henlich) provides a PostScript font with four glyphs: The official Euro symbol, and three not-so-official shapes which are more convenient when using the symbol together with Times, Helvetica or Courier. - The package eurosym (by Henrik Theiling) provides the Euro symbol in several shapes, among them one that is constructed from the exact specifications. The font itself is done with Metafont, which is not a problem by itself. But if you want to create PDFs containing the Euro symbol, you're bound for trouble. - Finally, there is a set of tfm files for Adobe's Euro fonts, which were placed on CTAN on behalf of Y&Y. The included (plain) TeX-example works, but leaves much to be desired. 2. This Package --------------- So, several solutions, but every single one has it's drawbacks. So I decided to try to hack something together, and that's what I came up with: - I use the twelve fonts distributed by Adobe, as the Y&Y package does. - The font names conform to Karl Berry's naming scheme. The following list gives the PostScript names and the corresponding TeX names. The two other file names in the list are used later: PostScript TeX PC Macintosh EuroSans-Regular zpeurs.pfb _1______.PFB EuroSanReg EuroSans-Italic zpeuris.pfb _1I_____.PFB EuroSanIta EuroSans-Bold zpeubs.pfb _1B_____.PFB EuroSanBol EuroSans-BoldItalic zpeubis.pfb _1BI____.PFB EuroSanBolIta EuroSerif-Regular zpeur.pfb _3______.PFB EuroSerReg EuroSerif-Italic zpeuri.pfb _3I_____.PFB EuroSerIta EuroSerif-Bold zpeub.pfb _3B_____.PFB EuroSerBol EuroSerif-BoldItalic zpeubi.pfb _3BI____.PFB EuroSerBolIta EuroMono-Regular zpeurt.pfb _2______.PFB EuroMonReg EuroMono-Italic zpeurit.pfb _2I_____.PFB EuroMonIta EuroMono-Bold zpeubt.pfb _2B_____.PFB EuroMonBol EuroMono-BoldItalic zpeubit.pfb _2BI____.PFB EuroMonBolIta - I have included fd files, so that within each of the three font families the usual NFSS commands for changing series and shape work. - The file europs.sty defines five commands for selecting the Euro symbol: \EURhv selects EuroSans \EURtm selects EuroSerif \EURcr selects EuroMono \EUR selects one of the three above, depending on the current context \EURofc selects EuroSans Regular independent of context N.B.: This is the only "official" Euro symbol. If you want to conform with the rules of the EU (or whoever), you may only use this symbol. The first four names are stolen from marvosym. Although the association with Helvetica, Times and Courier is not necessarily intelligent, these names are easy to remember. So, you can simply say \textsf{just my 2 \EUR} \textbf{\textit{just my 2 \EUR}} and you get the symbol you expect. 3. Installation --------------- This archive consists of the following files: dvips zpeu.map pdftex zpeu.pdfmap tex europs.dtx europs.ins eutest.ps eutest.tex tfm zpeub.tfm zpeubi.tfm zpeubis.tfm zpeubit.tfm zpeubs.tfm zpeubt.tfm zpeur.tfm zpeuri.tfm zpeuris.tfm zpeurit.tfm zpeurs.tfm zpeurt.tfm Install the tfm files in the appropriate place, depending on your TeX version. You will need the Type 1 files from Adobe. For legal reasons they cannot be included in this package. You have to fetch them personally, e.g. from http://www.adobe.com/type/eurofont.html or ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/mac/all/eurofont.sea.hqx You can either unpack one of these archives on an appropriate computer, or you can use the freely distributable "unzip" to extract the files from the file "eurofont.exe". Once you've done this, you have to rename the fonts according to the table shown above, i.e. _1______.PFB is renamed to zpeurs.pfb, and so on. If you have downloaded and unpacked the Macintosh archive, you have to extract the POST part from the resource fork of the fonts. This can e.g. be done with the program "macfont". It is available at your nearest CTAN mirror. Once you got the PFB files, put them into the type1 directory of your TeX installation. Append(!!) zpeu.map to psfonts.map, and, if you are using pdfTeX, zpeu.pdfmap to the appropriate mapping file, so that dvips and pdfTeX know how to handle these fonts. Note: dvips prior to 5.80 has problems with partial font downloading in general, and with Adobe's Euro fonts in particular. You can say "dvips -j0 ..." to switch off partial font downloading completely, but this may increase the size of the generated PostScript file. You should really get the most recent version of dvips, which can be found at http://www.radicaleye.com/ Most TeX distributions include new versions of the individual programs quite fast, so you may want to check your distribution for a recent version of dvips. Process europs.ins with TeX or LaTeX. This will produce a style file and three font definition files. Move them to a place where LaTeX can find them. Now you should be able to use the Euro currency symbol. 4. Bugs ------- Probably many. If you find one, or want a feature to be added, please contact Joern Clausen University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Technology joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE