texinfo: @euro

Glyphs for Text

@pounds

@bullet

Back to Software Index

14.7.6 '@euro' (Euro): Euro Currency Symbol
-------------------------------------------

Use the '@euro{}' command to generate 'Euro'.  Where possible, this is
the symbol for the Euro currency.  Otherwise, the word 'Euro' is used.

  Texinfo cannot magically synthesize support for the Euro symbol where
the underlying system (fonts, software, whatever) does not support it.
Therefore, you may find it preferable to use the word "Euro".  (In
banking contexts, the abbreviation for the Euro is EUR.)

  In order to get the Euro symbol in encoded Info output, for example,
it is necessary to specify '@documentencoding ISO-8859-15' or
'@documentencoding UTF-8' (Note: @documentencoding.)  The Euro symbol
is in ISO 8859-15 (aka Latin 9), and is _not_ in the more widely-used
ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1).

  The Euro symbol does not exist in the standard TeX fonts (which were
designed before the Euro was legislated into existence).  Therefore, TeX
uses an additional font, named 'feymr10' (along with other variables).
It is freely available, of course; you can download it from
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/eurosym>, among other places.
The distribution includes installation instructions.