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This is the README for the forum package, version
-2019-12-17.
+2020-07-25.
-This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
-support for the Forum font, designed by Denis Masharov.
-Forum has antique, classic "Roman" proportions. It can
-be used to set body texts and works well in titles and
-headlines too. It is truly multilingual, with glyphs for
-Central and Eastern Europe, Baltics, Cyrillic and Asian
-Cyrillic communities. There is currently just a regular
-weight and an artificially emboldened bold.
+This package provides the Forum fonts, designed by Denis
+Masharov, for use with xeLaTeX abnd luaLaTeX. Forum has
+antique, classic "Roman" proportions. It can be used to set
+body texts and works well in titles and headlines too. It
+is truly multilingual, with glyphs for Central and Eastern
+Europe, Baltics, Cyrillic and Asian Cyrillic communities.
+There is currently just a regular weight.
To install this package on a TDS-compliant
TeX system download the file
@@ -16,8 +15,7 @@ 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 forum.map.
+file-name database (e.g., texhash).
To use, add
@@ -26,24 +24,17 @@ To use, add
to the preamble of your document. This will activate
Forum as the main (serifed) text font.
-LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or
-who wish to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option.
-
Options scaled=<number> or scale=<number> may be used to
scale the fonts.
The only figure style is proportional lining.
-Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, LY1, TS1 and T2A/B/C.
-
The original Truetype font was obtained from
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Forum
and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, version
-1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory. The
-bold and type1 versions was created using fontforge. The
-support files were created using autoinst and otftotfm 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)
+1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory. THe rest
+of the package is licensed under the terms of the LaTeX
+Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is
+Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca)