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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+This archive contains PostScript binary files for a few "decorative
+initials" (also called "dropped initials") fonts, and the service
+files needed in order to use these fonts with [La]TeX.
+
+The fonts are a (small) subset of the ones designed and crafted by:
+
+ Dieter Steffmann <dieter@steffmann.de>
+ Marburger Straße 93a, D-57223 Kreuztal (Germany)
+
+and available under his Web page
+
+ http://www.steffmann.de/english/index.htm
+
+(follow the link to "Fonts").
+
+The author gave his permission, that these
+fonts can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
+of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
+archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt.
+
+The files included in the distribution are:
+
+ .pfb files: PostScript Font Binary files;
+ .afm files: Adobe Font Metric files;
+ .tfm files: TeX Font Metric files, for LaTeX;
+ .fd files: Font Description files, for LaTeX;
+ config files: configuration files, for dvips;
+ .map files: font mapping files, for dvips;
+ .tex files: example files;
+ .pdf files: Portable Document Format output from the
+ above example files.
+
+The names of the included fonts, and the related file names are:
+
+ AcornInitials (Acorn.afm, Acorn.pfb)
+ AnnStone (AnnSton.afm, AnnSton.pfb)
+ ArtNouveauInitialen (ArtNouv.afm, ArtNouv.pfb)
+ ArtNouveauCaps (ArtNouvc.afm, ArtNouvc.pfb)
+ CarrickCaps (Carrickc.afm, Carrickc.pfb)
+ EichenlaubInitialen (Eichenla.afm, Eichenla.pfb)
+ EileenCaps-Regular (Eileen.afm, Eileen.pfb)
+ EileenCaps-Black (EileenBl.afm, EileenBl.pfb)
+ ElzevierCaps-Regular (Elzevier.afm, Elzevier.pfb)
+ GotischeInitialen (GotIn.afm, GotIn.pfb)
+ GoudyInitialen (GoudyIn.afm, GoudyIn.pfb)
+ KinigsteinCaps (Kinigcap.afm, Kinigcap.pfb)
+ KonanurKaps (Konanur.afm, Konanur.pfb)
+ Kramer-Regular (Kramer.afm, Kramer.pfb)
+ MorrisInitialen (MorrisIn.afm, MorrisIn.pfb)
+ NouveauDropCaps (Nouveaud.afm, Nouveaud.pfb)
+ Romantik (Romantik.afm, Romantik.pfb)
+ RothenburgDecorative (Rothdn.afm, Rothdn.pfb)
+ RoyalInitialen (RoyalIn.afm, RoyalIn.pfb)
+ SanRemo (Sanremo.afm, Sanremo.pfb)
+ Starburst-Regular (Starburst.afm, Starburst.pfb)
+ TypographerCaps (Typocaps.afm, Typocaps.pfb)
+ ZallmanCaps (Zallman.afm, Zallman.pfb)
+
+In order to install the distribution, copy the files (with the
+exception of the .afm files, not needed by LaTeX) to a directory
+searched by LaTeX and dvips.
+
+To process the example files, try the commands:
+
+ latex <name>.tex
+ dvips -j0 -P <name> <name>.dvi
+
+where <name> is the base name of the afm and pfb files (one of Acorn,
+AnnSton, ...); to process the example files without any previous
+installation, try with
+
+ TEXCONFIG="\!\!:." dvips -j0 -P <name> <name>.dvi
+
+from the current directory (for the Bourne shell; for C-like shells I
+don't know how to change an environment variable on-the-fly).
+
+For what concerns the "-j0", this option should not be needed by
+modern versions of dvips (the PostScript output has been generated
+by dvips 5.92b); I suspect that these fonts are not completely well
+formed internally, but I do not have the time to investigate more
+--- using -j0 the PostScript output is consistent. Also, Acrobat
+Reader 5.06 chokes on some PDF files (while xpdf has no problems),
+in particular the big ones like GoudyInitials; the PDF output has
+been generated by Ghostscript 8.00.
+
+The same files are available on the WWW under the URL
+
+ http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/MLO/
+
+(follow the link to the directory "Initials").
+
+ Happy TeXing, MLO