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- From: jwarner@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack E. Warner)
- Subject: Re: Cents symbol
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:52:46 GMT
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- Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- >Is there a way to typeset the symbol for cents in [La]TeX? It's the
- >symbol that looks like a 'c' and a '/' on top of each other. I've
- >been using (LaTeX)
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- >\newcommand{\cent}{\,\makebox[0in]{c}\makebox[0in]{/}\,}
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- >but this is too ugly for words. What obvious solution am I missing?
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- look in appendix f of the TeXbook and
- \newcommand{\cent}{\char'???}
- where ??? is the octal number of the cent sign.
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