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+ The Kerkis Font Family
+ For LaTeX
+
+ version 1.1, 12/Nov/2019
+
+ Among other features, Kerkis for LaTeX makes wide use of double forms
+ for several letters according to the hellenic typographic tradition
+ that now tends to be lost. In particular the letters beta, zeta, theta,
+ rho and phi have an initial and a different middle-word form.
+
+ Old style numbers (known as lower case numbers as well) are included in
+ the small caps font. Thus they are accessible with the \textsc or
+ \scshape command.
+
+ The fonts contain a full set of latin characters with accents that
+ support properly all latin-based languages (common like German, French
+ etc and less common like Icelandic). Special ligatures for "northern"
+ languages like ij and fj etc (try the word fiji or fjord) are also
+ included and tested to work.
+
+ Kerkis is especially usefull for the creation of pdf files due to the
+ fact that the fonts are in Type1 format.
+
+ Download
+
+ Download the following zip file: Kerkis_for_LaTeX.zip from
+ http://myria.math.aegean.gr/software/kerkis/Kerkis_for_LaTeX.html
+
+ Installation
+
+ If you have the previous version of kerkis installed you must first
+ remove it or overwrite it. To do this or just to install it do the
+ following steps:
+ 1. Replace or place the type1 files: locate the old files named k.pfb,
+ ki.pfb, kb.pfb etc and delete them. Place the new files in the same
+ place you had the old ones probably in texmf/fonts/type1/kerkis or
+ in this directory (create it!) if you did not had kerkis before.
+ 2. Replace or place the afm files: locate the files k.afm,
+ ki.afm,kb.afm etc and delete them. Place the new afm files in the
+ same place you had the old ones probably in texmf/fonts/afm/kerkis
+ or in this directory (create it!) if you did not had kerkis before.
+ 3. Replace or place the tfm and vf files (k8a.tfm, ek8a.tfm, gk7a.tfm
+ etc), in texmf/fonts/tfm/kerkis and texmf/fonts/vf/kerkis.
+ 4. Replace or place the old kerkis.sty, .fd files from the tex
+ subdirectory of the distribution in texmf/tex/latex/kerkis.
+ 5. Replace or place the .enc files from the dvips subdirectory of the
+ distribution in texmf/dvips/base/kerkis (old ones might be in
+ texmf/dvips/base/).
+ 6. Place the all html files from the doc subdirectory in
+ texmf/doc/latex/kerkis.
+ 7. Place the kerkis.map file in texmf/dvips/base/kerkis. If you had
+ kerkis before edit the file psfonts.map (found in
+ texmf/dvips/config and/or texmf/dvips/base) and delete all entries
+ relating to kerkis.
+ 8. Run texhash (on unix) or refresh the filename database (in MikTeX).
+ 9. Find the file updmap.cfg open it in an editor and add the line: Map
+ kerkis.map
+ 10. Run updmap (on MikTeX I am not sure how to do this. Alternatively
+ you may append the contents of the file kerkis.map of the
+ distribution to psfonts.map after step 7 above, refresh the
+ filename database (step 8) and skip steps 9 and 10).
+ 11. Remove all bitmaps you may have from older kerkis instalations
+ (remove all .pk files in /var/lib/texmf/pk teTeX (on unix)
+ texmf-var/fonts/pk in TeXLive and localtexmf\fonts\pk in MikTeX.
+
+ You are ready to use the fonts now. Just note the following:
+ 1. Load the kerkis.sty package after you load the inputenc package with
+ the iso-8859-7 option
+
+ 2. The -j option of dvips (which is usually the default) may not work
+ properly with older TeX installations (it works with modern ones).
+ If you run into such problems with dvips, either turn it off by
+ issuing dvips -j0 file.dvi or use the bitmap generation utility
+ gfstopk by issuing dvips -V file.dvi
+
+ Stylistic issues
+ Kerkis is a Neoclassical font. We believe that its strictly
+ rationalist axis makes it ideal for scientific typesetting.
+ Moreover its moderate contrast and apperture makes it perfectly
+ readable. Its serifs are adnate so that it guides your eyes
+ smoothly on the line.
+ Kerkis is a calm and quiet face that does not interfere with the
+ expression of important ideas in your documents.
+ The latin part of the Kerkis font is URW Bookman (except some
+ characters that were missing from Bookman). URW has kindly allowed
+ us to re-distribute their Bookman inside Kerkis.
+
+ A. Tsolomitis, atsol at aegean dot gr
+