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- From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
- Subject: Re: Pound sign
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.125207.4769@city.cs>
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- Organization: City University, London
- References: <1992Nov3.125239.14855@city.cs> <fgd3.02pb@nifty.UUCP> <36790@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 12:52:07 GMT
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- grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
- >I hate to add confusion, but a few days back I saw a message that contained
- >the backslash-pound sequence "\pound". I wonder if the person who saw the
- >British pound sign was using a news reader that knew how to interpret such
- >escapes...
-
- No. As far as I know, the \pounds notation is from LaTeX, and some
- people (including myself) sometimes use it to show that they mean
- pound-sign, but could not get a proper one. Please correct me if
- the \pound notation has a more universal use.
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