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diff --git a/fonts/feyn/README b/fonts/feyn/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4477b02799 --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/feyn/README @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ + +Feyn: a Metafont for Feynman diagrams +------------------------------------- + +Version 0.4.1. + +This package is intended to produce relatively simple Feynman diagrams, for +example within equations. + +This package differs from Thorsten Ohl's feynmf/feynmp package. +FeynMP works by creating Metafont or MetaPost figures using a +preprocessor. It's more general than this package, but is at its best +when creating relatively large diagrams, for figures. In contrast, +the present system consists of a carefully-designed font with which +you can easily write simple diagrams, within equations or within text, +in a size matching the surrounding text size. + +The propagators and vertices which are implemented are those which +seem to appear most often in non-figure displays (the practical +definition of ‘appear most often’ is ‘which I wanted’ and ‘which people +asked me for’). I have no current plans to extend the package +further, but I'm willing add other features if you can make a case for +them, and they fit within the package's remit of ‘diagrams for use in +equations’. + +There is further documentation, plus numerous examples, in the package +documentation (feyn.pdf). + +See the package's home page on the web: http://purl.org/nxg/dist/feyn + + +Installation +------------ + +Extract the package file from the distribution file using `latex +feyn.ins`. The resulting `feyn.sty` should be installed in the usual +location for style files -- that is, something like +`texmf.local/tex/latex/feyn.sty`. The Metafont source files `*.mf` +should be installed in a directory with a location such as +`texmf.local/fonts/source/feyn/` (on a system which has the command, +`kpsepath mf` will indicate the possibilities here, but these +typically include the current directory). That should be all you need +to do as regards the installation of the fonts -- if your TeX setup is +installed correctly, then the usual font-generation commands (such as +`mktexpk` for example) should work as normal, and they should be +invoked by default when you LaTeX the feyn.dtx file. + +You should be able to find generic instructions for installing LaTeX files at +http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=installthings + + +Licence +------- + +This software is copyright 1991, 1994, 2001-2, 2005, 2008-17, Norman Gray. + +It is distributed under the terms of the 2-clause BSD Licence; +see the file LICENCE for details. + + +Norman Gray +http://nxg.me.uk |