Bug#193444: [(nowhere)] Re: psnfss/3670

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 23.08.05 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:

Hi,

> Synopsis: helvetica produces dollar signs instead of \textsterling
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: gnats
> State-Changed-When: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:06:00 +0200
> State-Changed-Why:
> Documentation of psnfss recommends the T1 encoding. Too much work to 
> fix the always buggy OT1, especially when a better alternative exists.  -
> Morten
> 
The following minimal example indeed works:

hille@preusse:~$ more z1.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\sffamily
\pounds 4
\textsterling 3
\end{document}

Tested on 3.0. Closing time?

H., needs another virtual machine with teTeX 2.0 installed.
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