1 Feb
1999
1 Feb
'99
12:14 p.m.
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
I sort of like the idea expressed in the _Red Dwarf_ SF TV comedy
where the money in the future is expressed in "dollarpounds", and
amounts are preceded by both symbols, at least in the novelisations.
Any time the politicians are changing the definition of the money,
you know they're not going to kiss you afterwards.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
ObCC: so what
did you UKans do to get your funny-looking L on
computers, terminals, and printers imported from ASCII-speaking
countries?
In TeX (which is all I really need), it's \pounds. IIRC the equivalent of
$ in the italic font is a pound sign, or something.