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diff --git a/fonts/forum/README b/fonts/forum/README index 44e7afd491..ad64e84c5f 100644 --- a/fonts/forum/README +++ b/fonts/forum/README @@ -1,13 +1,14 @@ 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) |