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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: <1993Jan22.031048.21511@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
  6. Date: 22 Jan 93 03:10:48 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. I guess my last note was a bit brief - here is the macro I meant:
  25.  
  26. \newcommand{\cents}{{\sf c}\!\!|}
  27.  
  28. -rags
  29.