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+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.