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jwarner@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack E. Warner) writes:

>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.

There is only one problem with this plan:
There is no such character in any of the standard fonts.

The TeXbook suggests \def\cents{\hbox{\rm\rlap/c}} .

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Michael Malak                      |  1. All syllogisms have three parts.
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