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+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%%
+%% This is the file readme, part of the VFinst package
+%% (version 1.00, August, 1998) for PostScript Type1 font
+%% installation. (Author: Alan Hoenig, ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu)
+%%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+If you've ever wanted to set up outline fonts for use by \TeX\ or
+\LaTeX, VFinst may be of use to you. At the end of the VFinst
+process, you'll be able to typeset with your new fonts, confident that
+accents, ligatures, and the like will appear in your document with the
+usual \TeX\ conventions. Here are the fonts you get at the end of the
+process.
+
+ * For every upright font: you get the upright font, the small
+ caps font, an oblique font, and an underline font.
+ * For every italic font, you get the italic font, a small caps
+ italic, an unslanted italic, and an underline font.
+ * Additional fonts: You will also get titling (display)
+ fonts, both upright and italic, and a swash italic font,
+ if the appropriate raw fonts were present.
+
+VFinst takes care to use expert fonts to build the small caps fonts,
+if these raw fonts are present. You also get test files
+for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX), to both test the fonts and to provide
+examples of how to declare and use each of the fonts in a TeX
+document.
+
+Some Technical Notes: At the end of the VFinst process, you get all
+.vf and .tfm files for all fonts, which have been renamed for you
+according to the fontname2.1 conventions. All oblique and italic
+fonts use the true italic angle for the font. The dvips map file
+psfonts.map will have been updated for you. All fonts will have been
+placed in the proper area on your hard disk. You may choose original
+TeX (ot1) or Cork (t1) encodings for your fonts, which can be
+installed according to the TDS (TeX Directory Structure) or
+`traditional' standard. All raw fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding.
+
+All this and more is expanded upon in the documentation file
+vfinst.tex. PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY
+FONT INSTALLATIONS.
+
+Please feel free to get in touch with me; my email is
+ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu. All comments, bugs, suggestions for
+improvement, and criticism cheerfully accepted.
+
+ Alan Hoenig
+ ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu
+
+ August 1998
+