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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LATEX reg. tm. symbol/WANT
Keywords: want circle R
Message-ID: <19384@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 14:22:13 GMT
References: <2944@tahoe.unr.edu>
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <2944@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu [wait, that's
a mimic---I mean, that is the address I found was wrong: wrc, not wrcr]
(Mike Whitbeck) writes:
>I want a symbol for 'registered trademark' ...
>Can this be made with TeX?

You can kludge one out of a circle and an R, but the right way to get
such a symbol is to design it with METAFONT.

>should \savebox be used to hold it if it will be used often?

If you make it out of circle-plus-R, yes.

Someone ought to do the TeX world a service and add `\reg' as a symbol
in the `lasy' font.
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