Bug#338376: [debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#338376: \usepackage[force]{textcomp} side effects for debiandoc-sgml

[Frank Küster]

Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:44:25PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Jens Seidel <jensseidel at users.sf.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > debiandoc-sgml does no longer build Debian FAQ.
>> >
>> > $ latex /tmp/error.tex
>> > This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
>> > entering extended mode
>> 
>> This is not the version in unstable, but in testing or sarge.  
>> 
>> Hm.  Bad if that has the effect that debiandoc-sgml cannot be backported
>> to sarge withouth changes.  Is this really a problem - there are also
>> other alternatives, although less elegant.
>
> I think it is better to make debiandoc-sgml compatible with tetex 2.0
> and 3.0.  If anyone propose good fix, I will use it as the next update.

The alternative is to drop "[force]" and use "\currency" instead of
"\textcurrency".  This will use the currency symbol from the wasy fonts
(wasysym.sty is already loaded, anyway) instead of trying Palatino's
currency symbol.  It doesn't fit smoothly into a text typeset in
Palatino, but I don't think this is a severe problem: First of all, this
symbol is only rarely used in continous text and will stand out anyway.
Second, the Palatino currency symbol looks ugly in my opinion - one can
hardly see that it's not just a circle, whereas the wasysym one is
nicer.

Is that sufficient information, or do you need more assistance in
changing the generated LaTeX file?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)