# Combination of \pm and \EUR

I am trying to simply combine a Euro sign with the plus-minus symbol \pm. However the Euro sign is always converted to a small e, instead of the actual €. Is there a simply workaround? Thanks!

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{eurosym}

\begin{document}

\pm \EUR{1}

\end{document}

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\pm is a math mode symbol, thus TeX generates an error:
! Missing $inserted.  and switches to math mode as error recovery: ? h I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think you left one out. Proceed, with fingers crossed.  but \EUR does not work well in math mode, because it sets the text font, but uses the current (math) font for the symbol (\officialeuro). It works, if \pm is correctly set in math mode without covering \EUR: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{eurosym} \begin{document}$\pm$\EUR{1} \end{document}  ## Euro in math mode \officialeuro can also be patched that it can be used in math mode: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{eurosym} \usepackage{etoolbox} \makeatletter \expandafter\pretocmd\csname officialeuro \endcsname{\nfss@text}{}{% \errmessage{Patching \@backslashchar officialeuro failed}% } \makeatother \begin{document}$\pm \EUR{1}$\end{document}  - Alternative to Heiko's answer: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{eurosym} \begin{document}$\pm \textrm{\EUR{1}}\$