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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!sifon!triples.math.mcgill.ca!rags
  2. From: rags@triples.math.mcgill.ca (Robert A. G. Seely)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
  4. Subject: Re: Cents symbol
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan22.030738.21373@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
  6. Date: 22 Jan 93 03:07:38 GMT
  7. References: <gfL5uYi00WB_BPqPJt@andrew.cmu.edu> <C16nzz.Frq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1jm17cINNq7@gap.caltech.edu>
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  13. In article <1jm17cINNq7@gap.caltech.edu> mmalak@cco.caltech.edu (Michael Jay Malak) writes:
  14. >jwarner@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack E. Warner) writes:
  15. >
  16. >>Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
  17. >
  18. >>>Is there a way to typeset the symbol for cents in [La]TeX?  It's the
  19. >>>symbol that looks like a 'c' and a '/' on top of each other.  I've
  20. >>>been using (LaTeX)
  21. >
  22. >>>\newcommand{\cent}{\,\makebox[0in]{c}\makebox[0in]{/}\,}
  23. >
  24. >>>but this is too ugly for words.  What obvious solution am I missing?
  25. >
  26. >The TeXbook suggests \def\cents{\hbox{\rm\rlap/c}} .
  27. >
  28. >-- 
  29. >Michael Malak                      |  1. All syllogisms have three parts.
  30. >mmalak@looking_glass.caltech.edu   |  2. Therefore, this is not a syllogism.
  31.  
  32.  
  33. I use \sf instead of \rm - a little better I think, but that's a matter of
  34. taste.  
  35.  
  36. -rags
  37.