On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:54:28AM -0400, Michael Laing wrote:
> I have a potato system with all the usual latex stuff on it.
>
> I am working with a lot of latin1 (ISO-8859-1) text and need to output
> the ¢ (cent) symbol, which is latin1 character number 162 (0xa2). How
> can I do that? Almost all other characters work fine with the latin1
> input encoding.
>
> Here's a little example document.
>
> \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{letter}
> \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
> \usepackage{times}
> \begin{document}
> Yo Günther, a nickle is \$0.05 or 5¢.
> \end{document}
>
> Running latex gives me this output:
>
> plum:~$ latex cent.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> (cent.tex
> LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
> Babel <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> ngerman, n
> ohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/letter.cls
> Document Class: letter 1999/02/09 v1.2z Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty beta test version
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty) (cent.aux)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1ptm.fd)
>
> ! LaTeX Error: Command \textcent unavailable in encoding OT1.
>
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type H <return> for immediate help.
> ...
>
> l.5 Yo G^^fcnther, a nickle is \$0.05 or 5^^a2
> .
> ?
>
> Thanks for your help and/or pointers!
>
> ml
Perhaps you should try with output T1 encoding.
Not sure but it should be
\usepackage[T1]{times}
instead of
> \usepackage{times}
Good luck.
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