============================================================ The LaTeX package eurosans version 2.0 ============================================================ Walter Schmidt 1999-07-21 Description ----------- The LaTeX package "eurosans" provides a convenient LaTeX interface for the free Adobe Euro fonts in Type 1 (PostScript) format. Loading the package defines a new command \euro which typesets an Euro symbol. The symbol is always taken from the "EuroSans" family, with the weight (medium or boldface) and shape (normal or oblique) varying according to the font currently selected. This Euro symbol meets the official design and matches almost any font family very well, except for typewriter fonts. The command name \euro has been chosen to be the same as in the "eurosym" package, which loads the "eurosym" MF fonts. What's new? ----------- As with this version 2.0, the fonts will be accessed through their canonical "Karl Berry" names. These font names are compatible with other packages using the Adobe Euro fonts (europs.sty, eurofont.sty.). Prerequisites ------------- (1) Install the font metrics (.tfm files), to be found in the directory tfm/. (2) Supply a suitable map file for dvips and/or pdfTeX, to be found in the directory dvips/. * Please, note that some TeX systems (e.g., TeXLive4) * already come with the tfm's and a map file for the Adobe * Euro fonts, so that you will NOT need to install these * files manually. (3) You will have to obtain the actual Type1 fonts (.pfb files) from Adobe, because they must not be distributed from CTAN, due to legal resons: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe or ftp://ftp-pac.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe This is a self-extracting archive for DOS/Win, which can also be unpacked using Info-Zip's 'unzip' program. When using the map file "zpeu.map" or the one that comes with TeXLive4 (teTeX), you will have to rename the .pfb files as follows: _1______.PFB -> zpeurs.pfb _1B_____.PFB -> zpeubs.pfb _1I_____.PFB -> zpeuris.pfb _1BI____.PFB -> zpeubis.pfb _2______.PFB -> zpeurt.pfb _2B_____.PFB -> zpeubt.pfb _2I_____.PFB -> zpeurit.pfb _2BI____.PFB -> zpeubit.pfb _3______.PFB -> zpeur.pfb _3B_____.PFB -> zpeub.pfb _3I_____.PFB -> zpeuri.pfb _3BI____.PFB -> zpeubi.pfb When using the map file "zpeu-origname.map", the pfb's need NOT to be renamed. Known problems -------------- With dvips prior to version 5.83, partial font downloading will fail with an error message like this one: File <_1bi____.pfb> ended before all chars have been found. We scan 0 Chars from 226 Lst seen token was '/Euro' Partial font downloading can be turned off by calling dvips with the option -j0 or by specifying j0 in the dvips configuration file. This bug has been fixed with dvips version 5.83. History ------- v2.0 1999-07-21 changed the font names acording to "Karl Berry" scheme v1.0 1999-01-19 \euro is now robust; documentation update v0.9 1998-11-09 first public version -- finis