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diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/README b/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f1c8b924fc --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/README @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +This accompanies the teubner bundle version 4.x dated November 2015 or later. + +Copyright 2010-2016 Claudio Beccari + +The bundle contains the files + +README this file +teubner.txt a more descriptive file +teubner.dtx the self extracting documented TeX source file +teubner-doc.tex an extended documentation file +teubner.pdf general and technical documentation +teubner-doc.pdf specific documentation with examples + +The bundle is distributed under the LPPL license version 1.3c or any later version. + +The bundle has the status of author maintained. + +The main purpose of this bundle is to provide classical philologists with some +means for typesetting their documents that usually contain very specific mark up. +This version allows the typesetter to use both "italic" shapes: the Olga-like +and the Lipsian-like ones; it complies with the LICR (LaTeX Internal Character +Representation) of the Greek glyphs that avoid the kerning problems that arise +with the ligature mechanism embedded in the LGR encoded default CBfonts; it is +compatible with the use of different vector Latin Type 1 fonts; +contains new designs for the horizontally stretchable markers, et cetera. + +Running pdflatex on the .dtx file produces both the documentation and +extracts the byproduct files teubner.sty, teubnertx.sty, teubner.pdf. +The readable extended documentation file teubner-doc.pdf is obtained by running +pdflatex on the teubner-doc.tex file. + +Moreover this teubner package generates on the fly the font description files +necessary to use the LGR encoded Greek fonts with some non standard TeX +PostScript fonts; for example, it automatically generates the necessary files if using +the TX or the PX fonts; with other Type 1 fonts the necessary .fd files require +manual intervention, which simply means giving a suitable command from within another +open file that loads teubner. + +Please, be sure to work with a 2010 updated collection of the CBfonts; with a 2014 +updated version of the TeX system; with a babel version 3.9g or later; with the +language description file greek.ldf version 1.9b or later. The teubner package works also with previous versions of the above pieces of software, but with limited performances. + +Claudio Beccari +claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
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