From e0c6872cf40896c7be36b11dcc744620f10adf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900 Subject: Initial commit --- fonts/brushscr/AAA_readme.tex | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 117 insertions(+) create mode 100644 fonts/brushscr/AAA_readme.tex (limited to 'fonts/brushscr/AAA_readme.tex') diff --git a/fonts/brushscr/AAA_readme.tex b/fonts/brushscr/AAA_readme.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1b0d9d2b9f --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/brushscr/AAA_readme.tex @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +\documentclass[a4paper]{article} +\usepackage{shortvrb} +\pagestyle{plain} +\MakeShortVerb{\|} + +\begin{document} +\title{BrushScriptX-Italic PostScript\thanks{PostScript is a + registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.} \\ + Type-1 Fonts} +\author{\Large Maurizio Loreti} +\date{Rev.\ 2.0 \\ + September 21, 2001} \maketitle + +The files included in this package allow to use in your +\LaTeX\ documents a PostScript Type-1 font named +``BrushScriptX-Italic''; this font, similar to Adobe +BrushScript, simulates hand-written characters. In detail, +these files are: +\begin{enumerate} +\item AAA\_readme.tex: this file. +\item README: a shorter ASCII version of this file. +\item Makefile: contains the commends needed, on my Unix + system, to generate all the auxiliary files needed in + order to use this fonts with \LaTeX\ and |dvips|. In + particular, the included file generate.tex is used as + input to the \TeX\ package |fontinst|. +\item config.pbsi and pbsi.map: the auxiliary files for + |dvips|. pbsi.map maps BrushScript to the ASCII version + of the font (the BrushScriptX-Italic.pfa file). +\item t1pbsi.fd: the \TeX\ font definition file, for the T1 + encoding. +\item pbsi8t.vf: the \TeX\ virtual font file, for the T1 + encoding. +\item pbsi8t.tfm: the \TeX\ font metric file, for the T1 + encoding. +\item BrushScriptX-Italic.pfa and BrushScriptX-Italic.afm: + the font, in ASCII format, and the corresponding font + metric file. The afm file lacks the part about the + kerning, that has been separately tuned by hand and is + defined in another file, kern.txt (merged with + BrushScriptX-Italic.afm at the generation time from the + Makefile). +\item sample.tex: a first example file (a real page printed + out in the past for my students; in Italian, sorry). +\item pbsi.sty and example.tex: the style defines a command + |\textbsi|, that print its argument using the + BrushScriptX-Italic fonts; the second is another example + file showing how to use it. +\end{enumerate} + +For the installation, you should copy +BrushScriptX-Italic.pfa, pbsi.sty, config.pbsi, pbsi.map, +and the .fd, .tfm and .vf files, in appropriate directories +of the \TeX\ tree. Some installations (e.g.\ teTeX) require +to update the file database, running (as root) the command +|texhash|; check your documentation. Done that, use the +fonts as shown in the sample.tex example (for long texts), +or (as outlined in example.tex) with |\textbsi{...}| (for +short texts); and \emph{remember} to run |dvips| \emph{with + the command option} |-P pbsi|. Some historical notes: +\begin{itemize} +\item I have found the original BrushScriptX-Italic font (a + public domain NeXT screen font) on the web; and I have + heavily modified the original file on my Amiga personal + computer, with a commercial font drawing package named + TypeSmith. This happened in the first years of 1990's. +\item I then submitted to CTAN the modified font; my version + is also public domain: you are free to modify my files as + you want, as long as you don't make any profit from them. +\item Later, when a new version of |dvips| appeared that + made more tight controls on the handled Type-1 fonts, the + modified BrushScript was refused by |dvips|. At the time + I did not have any Amiga computer, nor any tool to use in + order to edit and/or modify a Type-1 font; Louis Vosloo of + Y\&Y has pointed to me that the original tool (TypeSmith) + did not generate a correct font, and (with enormous + courtesy) edited the font himself. That modified font was + resubmitted to CTAN. +\item Still later, Mr.\ Rolf Niepraschk of + Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin (Germany) has + both contributed a file pbsi.sty and, in 2001, found that + the last |dvips| (5.86e) still refused to handle + BrushScript. He has also contributed a fix for that, + using the ``type1fix'' script part of the \TeX{}trace + package by P\'eter Szab\'o + (|http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/|). +\item A kind reader of comp.text.tex pointed to me the + existence of a free font editor for Unix + (|http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net|); so I decided to clean + up the font shapes, to specify better kernings and to + build a brand new release (v2.0, released at the end of + September 2001). Mr.\ Thierry Bouche helped several times + with |fontinst|, whose documentation is, err, quite + obscure. +\end{itemize} + +Be careful, do not use \TeX\ commands that use math +characters, or that change the typeface (like |\bfseries| or +|\sffamily|); Brush-Script-Italic has no defined variants! + + +\par\vspace*{1cm}\noindent Thanks to: +\begin{itemize} +\item Louis Vosloo ||, who helped with + the font. +\item Rolf Niepraschk ||, who helped with + the font. +\item Thierry Bouche ||, who + helped with |fontinst|. +\item George Williams, the author of |pfaedit|. +\end{itemize} + +\par\vspace*{1cm}\noindent Happy \TeX{}ing!\hfill +Maurizio Loreti\vspace*{2\baselineskip} +\par\hfill EMail: |loreti@pd.infn.it| +\par\hfill WWW: |http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html| +\end{document} -- cgit v1.2.3