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                 The LaTeX package eurosans
                        version 3.0
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                                              Walter Schmidt
                                               was@VR-Web.de
                                                  2002-01-09

Usage
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The LaTeX package "eurosans" provides a convenient LaTeX
interface for the free Adobe Euro symbol fonts in Type 1
(PostScript) format.  Loading of the package

  \usepackage{eurosans}
  
provides a new command

  \euro
  
which typesets an Euro symbol.  The weight (medium or
boldface), shape (upright or oblique) and width (regular or
condensed) varies according to the font currently selected.
The symbol blends well with most typefaces, except for
typewriter fonts.  The medium/upright/regular variant meets
the official design by the EC.

The Euro Fonts can be scaled, in order to match the other
fonts in the document, by loading the package with the
option [scaled=...].  For instance, to use the Euro fonts at
90% of their `natural' size:

  \usepackage[scaled=0.9]{eurosans}

The eurosans package requires the package keyval.sty, which
is part of the `graphics' bundle and should be available
with any decent LaTeX system.



The font family "eurosans"
--------------------------
The command \euro switches to a particular font family named
"eurosans", which is set up with the encoding "U" only.

NFSS classification:

  series   shapes      PostScript FontName
  --------------------------------------------------------
  m        n,it,sl     EuroSans-Regular, EuroSans-Italic
  b,bx     n,it,sl     EuroSans-Bold, EuroSans-BoldItalic
  mc       n,it,sl     EuroMono-Regular, EuroMono-Italic
  sbc,bc   n,it,sl     EuroMono-Bold, EuroMono-BoldItalic         

(The EuroMono typefaces are actually condensed versions of
EuroSans.)



Obtaning and installing the Euro Fonts
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(1) Install the font metrics (.tfm files), to be found in
the CTAN directory fonts/euro/tfm.

(2) Install a font map file for dvips, pdfTeX etc, to be found
in the CTAN directory fonts/euro/dvips.

A font map file and the .tfm files for the Euro fonts may
already be provided in your TeX system, so that you need not
install them manually; please, consult its documentation!

(3) Due to legal reasons, the actual Type1 fonts (.pfb and
.afm files) are _not_ distributed from CTAN.  They can be
obtained from free from Adobe:

  <http://www.adobe.com/type/eurofont.html>
  
You will receive a self-extracting archive "eurofont.exe" for
DOS/Win, which can be unpacked using Info-Zip's "unzip"
program, too.  The archive file can also be downloaded
immediately:

  ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe
  ftp://ftp-pac.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/eurofont.exe

(4) Move the .pfb and .afm files from the archive to a
suitable directory of your TeX system.  When using the map
file "zpeu.map", you also have to rename the 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

...and ditto for the .AFM files!

When using the map file "zpeu-origname.map", you need NOT
rename the files; however, on Unix you should make sure that
the names are lower case.



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
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v3.0 2002-01-09
  optional scaling 
  
v2.1 2000-06-15
  the EuroMono fonts are used for the condensed series
  
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
