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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+This directory contains the macro ean13 and ean8 for making EAN
+barcodes (13 or 8 digit on input and kern-rule queue on output).
+
+The usage of the macros is commeted in the file ean13.tex or ean8.tex.
+The simple test is presented in file eantest.tex (for plain).
+Macro works in plain and LateX and other standard macro packages.
+
+The fonts ocrb9 and ocrb7 is used. The mf-sources are presented (this
+is the copy from CTAN:fonts/ocr-b) with a little correction (the
+mode_setup is added to begin of file ocrbmac.mf).
+
+ean13.tex .... EAN 13 macro by Petr Olsak
+ean8.tex .... EAN 8 macro by Jaroslav Moucka (student)
+eantest.tex .. test of ean13 and ean8 in plain.
+*.mf ......... mf-sources of OCR-b font by Norbert Schwarz
+
+Petr Olsak (Ol\v{s}\'ak)
+Department of Mathematics
+Czech Techical University in Prague,
+Czech Republic
+e-mail: olsak@math.feld.cvut.cz
+