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diff --git a/fonts/cyrillic/ot2cyr/README b/fonts/cyrillic/ot2cyr/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2b8f2bb43a --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/cyrillic/ot2cyr/README @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +README +Copyright 1995 Sebastian Rahtz + +This work may be distributed and/or modified under the +conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 +of this license or (at your option) any later version. +The latest version of this license is in + http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt +and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX +version 2005/12/01 or later. + +This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'. + +The Current Maintainer of this work is Sebastian Rahtz. + +This work consists of all files listed in manifest.txt. + +I have spent some while trying to look at Cyrillic encoding in +PostScript fonts, partly to make Lucida Cyrillic available. +While doing that I also looked at Monotype Times. + +What I have done is create: + + a) OT2enc.def and OT2wncyr.fd files to make Washington Cyrillic work + in normal LaTeX. + + b) fontinst .mtx file for Cyrillic glyph names, and .etx file for + OT2 encoding; these in two versions, one for the names as found in + Monotype Times Cyrillic, and one for names in Lucida Cyrillic + (AFII numbers, whatever they may be) + + c) a script (go) to run all the Monotype and Lucida fonts and make the metrics + + d) dvips map files for both families. + +The result is a pretty good match for Lucida, and an almost perfect +one for Monotype Times. The only thing missing in the latter (I pull +in a few characters from the corresponding roman font) is the strange +mis-shaped breve at '044 in Washington Cyrillic. + +Note that i have left the Y&Y names for Lucida Cyrillic alone as the `raw' names +because I couldnt be bothered to rename them + +Have fun + +Sebastian Rahtz +November 22nd 1995 +s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk + +(looked at and checked by Mattias Eller (tt91mel@student.tdb.uu.se) in +March 1996, and changes made to OT2enc.def and OT2wncyss.fd) |