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This is the README for the charissil package, version 5.0,
-release 2020-07-19.
+release 2020-07-22.
-This package provides the CharisSIL family of fonts
-adapted by SIL International from Bitstream Charter
-in both TrueType and Type1 formats, with support for both
-traditional and modern LaTeX processors.
+This package provides the CharisSIL family of TrueType fonts
+adapted by SIL International from Bitstream Charter. Because
+of licensing restrictions, type1 versions are not available
+and documents must be processed using xelatex or lualatex.
To install this package on a TDS-compliant
TeX system download the file
@@ -12,29 +12,22 @@ TeX system download the file
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 CharisSIL.map.
+file-name database (e.g., texhash).
To use, add
\usepackage{CharisSIL}
to the preamble of your document. This will activate
-CharisSIL as the main (serifed) text font. Regular,
-Italic, Bold and BoldItalic styles are available. Font
-encodings supported are OT1, T1, TS1, LY1 and T2A/B/C.
-The only figure style is tabular-lining.
-
-If LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users prefer type1 fonts or wish to
-avoid fontspec they may use the type1 option.
+CharisSIL as the main (serifed) text font. Regular, Italic,
+Bold and BoldItalic styles are available. The only figure
+style is tabular-lining.
Options scaled=<number> or scale=<number> may be used to
scale the fonts.
The fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
version 1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory.
-The type1 versions were created using fontforge. The LaTeX
-support files were created using autoinst 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).
+The support files are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX
+Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is
+Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca).