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From: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
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Subject: Re: Style (or fonts) for currencies?
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Date: 19 Apr 91 13:02:10 GMT
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In article <0094703C.073A7F80.13637@SHSU.BITNET> bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET
("George D. Greenwade") writes:
>Has anyone created a style file or fonts necessary to produce the symbols
>associated with currencies (see, I really am an economist!)?  I know how
>to get the symbol for the U.S. dollar and British pounds sterling, but is
>there a style out there (or fonts maybe?) which does the proper kerning
>exercises to create, say, the symbol for the Japanese yen, French franc,
 
The yen symbol is in msam* in the new AMS fonts, in position '125;
\yen produces it in AMSTeX.  Isn't the French franc symbol just an
uppercase roman F?  For Dutch guilder, I think a lowercase italic f is
suitable (florin).
 
   David Osborne, Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
                        Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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