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+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+This is a set of files for typsetting Tibetan using TeX
+
+I started with the latextibetan package (see below). This included
+
+- pk300 fonts (tib and tibsp)
+- a prefilter program tfilt in c (source)
+
+You write a text file name.tib, then run tfilt on it to get name.tex,
+which you then tex and etc normally.
+
+I made substantial modifications to the filter program to fix bugs and
+add features (e.g. various sanscrit letters, different sized fonts). I
+also took the pk files, used GNU font utilities to create .mf files so
+that the fonts can be made at any desired scale. I also cleaned up the
+fonts a bit. I added a unix script ttex, which automates the
+filtering/texing/dvi2ps process. I greatly expanded the tibdef.tex
+include file. The file boxes.tex can also be used to get various
+borders.
+
+I've had no success in contacting anyone who made the original
+program/fonts.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+To install,
+
+- unpack the files in their appropriate directories,
+
+- type make in the src directory (modifying the makefile if you want)
+
+- build the pk files you want from .mf files
+ (as per usual for TeX and the mf program [add mf instructions here])
+
+- modify ttex for the location of the tfilt program.
+
+Then try out the examples mani.tib etc.
+
+Good luck!
+
+Sam Sirlin
+June 1996
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+From the original latextibetan package README:
+
+This package was obtained from Ronald Schwartz at the Memorial
+University of Newfoundland. It provides a LaTeX front-end for writing
+modern Tibetan.
+
+Directions are in the file called instruct (in the ps/instruct.ps file).
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+From the latextibetan c source code:
+
+ Copyright 1987 Jeff Sparkes
+ Department of Computer Science
+ Memorial University of Newfoundland
+ St. John's, Nfld.
+ garfield!jeff1, jeff1@garfield.mun.cdn
+
+ Permission is granted to distribute and/or modify this code,
+ provided this copyright notice remains intact.
+ If you use it, let me know. If change it let me know. If you
+ make money from it, send me a share.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------- \ No newline at end of file