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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+This is the README for the forum package, version
+2019-06-18.
+
+This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
+support for the Forum font, designed by Denis Masharov.
+Forum has antique, classic "Roman" proportions. It can
+be used to set body texts and works well in titles and
+headlines too. It is truly multilingual, with glyphs for
+Central and Eastern Europe, Baltics, Cyrillic and Asian
+Cyrillic communities. There is currently just a regular
+weight and an artificially emboldened bold.
+
+To install this package on a TDS-compliant
+TeX system download the file
+"tex-archive"/install/fonts/forum.tds.zip where the
+preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirrors.ctan.org.
+Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree,
+likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the
+file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map
+files by enabling the Map file forum.map.
+
+To use, add
+
+\usepackage{forum}
+
+to the preamble of your document. This will activate
+Forum as the main (serifed) text font.
+
+LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or
+who wish to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option.
+
+Options scaled=<number> or scale=<number> may be used to
+scale the fonts.
+
+The only figure style is proportional lining.
+
+Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, LY1, TS1 and T2A/B/C.
+
+The original Truetype font was obtained from
+
+https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Forum
+
+and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, version
+1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory. The
+bold and type1 versions was created using fontforge. The
+support files were created using autoinst and otftotfm and
+are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
+License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt
+at cs.queensu.ca)