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diff --git a/fonts/forum/README b/fonts/forum/README index 6d548d14e6..44e7afd491 100644 --- a/fonts/forum/README +++ b/fonts/forum/README @@ -1,14 +1,13 @@ 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) |