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This is the README for the forum package, version
-2020-07-25.
+2020-08-01.
-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.
+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.
To install this package on a TDS-compliant
TeX system download the file
@@ -15,7 +16,8 @@ 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).
+file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map
+files by enabling the Map file forum.map.
To use, add
@@ -24,17 +26,25 @@ 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.
-The original Truetype font was obtained from
+Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, LY1, TS1 and T2A/B/C.
+
+The original 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 rest
-of the package is licensed under the terms of the LaTeX
+1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory. The bold
+and type1 versions was created using fontforge and re-named
+in compliance with the Reserved Font Name provision of the
+OFL license. 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)