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- From: mmalak@cco.caltech.edu (Michael Jay Malak)
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- Subject: Re: Cents symbol
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 11:25:32 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- jwarner@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack E. Warner) writes:
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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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- There is only one problem with this plan:
- There is no such character in any of the standard fonts.
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- The TeXbook suggests \def\cents{\hbox{\rm\rlap/c}} .
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- Michael Malak | 1. All syllogisms have three parts.
- mmalak@looking_glass.caltech.edu | 2. Therefore, this is not a syllogism.
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