[OS X TeX] Thank you and \textsterling sign coming out as $

[Paul Vickers]

Alternatively, try \pounds That's what I've been using ad haven't set 
any special encodings.

Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Le 6 déc. 05 à 12:28, Vicky Lamburn a écrit :
> 
>> I am using the Adobe Garamond Pro font (using other ones like Utopia 
>> or Computer-Modern) do not exhibit this problem.  If I have a line of 
>> text like:
>>
>> '£359.00 including VAT'
>>
>> it comes out as:
>>
>> '359.00 including VAT'
>>
>> So by using:
>>
>> '\textsterling 359.00 including VAT'
>>
>> gives me:
>>
>> $359 including VAT
>>
>> with a slanted dollar sign.  I have tried searching google but cannot 
>> find any answers -- is there something I am doing wrong?  This only 
>> seems to occur with the fonts I have installed :( (Optima and Adobe 
>> Garamond Pro) -- the other seem fine.
> 
> Are you using standard TeX, or XeTeX? I assume you're using XeTeX. If 
> yes, then make sure you are calling the xunicode.sty package (through 
> \usepackage{xunicode}). And make sure your text is encoded (in the 
> source window) using UTF-8 encoding. For example, in TeXShop don't 
> forget to include the lines:
> 
> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> 
> It may also happen that Adobe Garamond does not include the £ sign -- 
> but I doubt that.
> 
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