Indian rupee symbol

Linux Libertine v4.8.4 already supports the new rupee sign. From the changelog:

Changes to version 4.8.0 regular(-) & italic(/) & capitals (C) (20100430)

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• new Indian Rupee symbol uni20A8

Today the package tfrupee has been released on CTAN, providing LaTeX support for the techfat font containing the Indian rupee. It's been converted to Adobe Type 1 format.

See this page for all details: http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~uday/rupee-latex.html

Here are the key steps.

1. Download the tfrupee package available at CTAN. It's a 1.5 MB zip file named tfrupee.zip.

2. Run the following to install tfrupee.

   unzip tfrupee.zip  
   cd tfrupee/  
   sudo cp -rv fonts/type1/tfrupee/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/  
   sudo cp -rv fonts/afm/tfrupee/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/  
   sudo cp -rv fonts/tfm/tfrupee/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/  
   sudo cp -rv fonts/map/dvips/tfrupee/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/  
   sudo cp -rv fonts/source/tfrupee/ /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/  
   sudo cp -rv tex/latex/tfrupee/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/  
   sudo texhash  
   sudo updmap-sys --enable Map=tfrupee.map
   

3. Test it with this simple tex file.

   \documentclass[12pt]{article}  
   \usepackage{tfrupee}  
   \begin{document}  
   \rupee~7,000  
   \end{document}  
   

With pdflatex, or latex/dvips, you shouldn't see any messages from tex about inability to create bitmap fonts for tfrupee.