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Article #10572Re: Cents symbol
From: Jack E. Warner
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:52
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:52
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Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Is there a way to typeset the symbol for cents in [La]TeX? It's the
>symbol that looks like a 'c' and a '/' on top of each other. I've
>been using (LaTeX)
>\newcommand{\cent}{\,\makebox[0in]{c}\makebox[0in]{/}\,}
>but this is too ugly for words. What obvious solution am I missing?
look in appendix f of the TeXbook and
\newcommand{\cent}{\char'???}
where ??? is the octal number of the cent sign.
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