[Tutor] How can I escape a pound symbol in my script?

[Tim Golden]

ron wrote:
> in the US, # is a symbol for weight, not currency. 

I didn't know that; I assumed it was only
used for ordinal numbering (as in Item #3).

# How do you write out, with a quick symbol, "I'm going to
> buy 3# of potatoes? 

Assuming that "you" is us Brits, then:

   3lb

(that's lowercase-l, lowercase-b in case it doesn't
show up easily in your font).

TJG