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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+ Some, if not all, of the subdirectories in the bookhands directory provide a
+series of METAFONT fonts and LaTeX packages for typesetting with the manuscript
+book-hands that were used during the period from the first century until the
+invention of printing.
+
+ Not all of the possible manuscript hands are provided --- they number in
+the hundreds --- but hopefully a representative sample of the more important
+are here. In this context `more important' means that they have been among
+the main ancestors of our modern printing types.
+
+ The series as I have planned it will consist of the following book-hands:
+
+Book-hand Century Subdirectory?
+--------- ------- -------------
+Square Capitals 1 onwards sqrcaps
+Roman Rustic 1--6 rustic
+Uncial 3--6 uncial
+Half Uncial 3--9 huncial
+Artificial Uncial 6--10 auncial
+Insular majuscule 6--9 inslrmaj
+Insular miniscule 6 onwards inslrmin
+Carolingian minuscule 8--12 carolmin
+Early Gothic 11--12 egothic
+Gothic Textura 13--15 tgothic
+Gothic Prescius 13 onwards pgothic
+Rotunda 13--15 rotunda
+Humanist minuscule 14 onwards humanist
+
+ The proposed subdirectory names are, of course, subject to the agreement
+of the CTAN maintainers. From time to time I hope to add to the current
+collection until all are done.
+
+ The file bsamples.ps is a Postscript file which displays samples of each of
+the book-hand fonts that I have developed.
+
+ This distribution is released under the terms of the LaTeX Project
+Public License (LPPL).
+
+ Please note that anyone is welcome to make their own contributions to the
+bookhands directory. It is not mine, although the CTAN maintainers were kind
+enough to create it at my request.
+
+Peter W.
+peter.r.wilson@boeing.com
+22 May 1999 \ No newline at end of file