Re: [Orgmode] Re: Add \EUR to `org-html-entities'

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Ulf,

I have added your symbols.

Nick, are you still thinking about documenting package
dependencies for LaTeX export? This would be one.

- Carsten

On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
> >
> > > is there anything that speaks against adding
> > >
> > > --8<--------------------------snip-------------------------->8---
> > >
> > > ("EUR" . "&euro;")
> > >
> > > --8<--------------------------snap-------------------------->8---
> > >
> > > to `org-html-entities'? \EUR{} is provided by the Marvosym package  
> > > and
> > > &euro; a valid (X)HTML representation of the euro sign. Maybe ever
> > > better would be to add
> >
> > I would like to minimize external dependencies.
>
> well, that's something that speaks against it :)
>
> > Which distributions carry this package?
>
> Marvosym comes with my TeX Live LaTeX distro and used to come with  
> teTeX
> AFAIR. I had the impression the package was rather widely used but I
> maybe wrong.
>
> > > ("EURdig" . "&euro;")
> > > ("EURhv" . "&euro;")
> > > ("EURcr" . "&euro;")
> > > ("EURtm" . "&euro;")
> >
> > I do not understand the purpose of these extra symbols, and why
> > they are all equal in HTML????
>
> While \EUR becomes the `official' euro symbol, \EURdig is a variant of
> that with the same width as digits, \EURhv is a euro symbol that  
> fits to
> Helvetica, \EURcr dto. to Courier and \EURtm dto. to Times. This  
> makes a
> difference in LaTeX but is all the same in HTML: &euro;.
>
> Anyway, adding those symbols is not strictly necessary since everybody
> can use the eurosym package (where \euro{} command comes from). I like
> the Marvosym package better but I can also stick to what I currently  
> do:
>
> #+LATEX_HEADER: \newcommand{\euro}{\EUR}
>
> Ulf
>
>
>
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- Carsten