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Re: LATEX reg. tm. symbol/WANT

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From: Chris Torek
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1989 14:22
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In article <2944@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.wrcr.unr.edu [wait, that's
a mimic---I mean, that is the address I found was wrong: wrc, not wrcr]
(Mike Whitbeck) writes:
>I want a symbol for 'registered trademark' ...
>Can this be made with TeX?

You can kludge one out of a circle and an R, but the right way to get
such a symbol is to design it with METAFONT.

>should \savebox be used to hold it if it will be used often?

If you make it out of circle-plus-R, yes.

Someone ought to do the TeX world a service and add `\reg' as a symbol
in the `lasy' font.
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Subject: Re: LATEX reg. tm. symbol/WANT
Keywords: want circle R
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Date: 2 Sep 89 14:22:13 GMT
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