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diff --git a/fonts/aboensis/README b/fonts/aboensis/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b2ce5318a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/aboensis/README @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Aboensis is a package that contains the free OpenType/PS paleographic +font Aboensis and a style file for using it with XeLaTeX. + +The typeface is a cursive book hand based on Codex Aboensis that it a +medieval book of laws written in Sweden during the 1430s. Since all +relevant characters do not occur in the text, some other roughly +contemporary sources were also consulted. The most important of those +was the cartulary Register Ecclesia Aboensis that was started in the +1480s. + +This font is intended mainly for emulating medieval manuscripts and +has secondary use as a display font. Because medieval cursive is very +difficult to understand for modern readers, aboensis is not suitable +for general purpose use. + +The font has a large number of symbols that were in use in the 15th +century but fell out of use during the early modern period. These +symbols can be accessed either using ligature substitutions ar by +enabling suitable OpenType features. The general approach is that +abbreviation substitutions are written inside brackets. For example, +'[per]' enters a 'p' that has a strike going through its tail. The +font has also features that allow highlighting capital characters with +drawing different colored strikes over them. This highlighting is +controlled with OpenType Features that are described in the +documentation. + +The main problem with typsetting cursive using XeLaTeX is that long +ascenders and descenders cause uneven line distance. The style file +aboensis.sty contains helper macros that let ascenders and descenders +oerlap with each other. + +This font is distributed under the SIL Open Font License. The +documentation TeX file is distributed under the Latex Project Public +License (LPPL) version 1.3c or later. The digitized manuscript images +in the documentation are distributed either under Creative Commons +Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) or are Public Domain. The +license and attribution of each individual image is specified in +aboensis.pdf. |