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/comicsans/README | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) create mode 100644 fonts/comicsans/README (limited to 'fonts/comicsans/README') diff --git a/fonts/comicsans/README b/fonts/comicsans/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8c7541d59a --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/comicsans/README @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ + +--------------------------------------+ + | THE COMICSANS PACKAGE | + | By Scott Pakin, scott+csan@pakin.org | + +--------------------------------------+ + + +Description +=========== + +The comicsans package makes Microsoft's Comic Sans font available to +LaTeX2e. comicsans supports all of the following: + + * Roman text, boldface text, small-caps text, and -- with a little + extra effort -- italic text + + * Cyrillic (roman text, boldface text, italic text) + + * Mathematics using Comic Sans wherever possible + + +Installation +============ + +Complete installation instructions appear in the comicsans +documentation, comicsans.pdf (formatted for U.S. Letter paper). A +brief summary follows: + + * Acquire and install the Comic Sans font. + + * Merge comicsans's texmf directory tree (available from CTAN as + install/macros/latex/contrib/comicsans.tds.zip) with your local + TeX directory tree. + + * Point your favorite TeX backend(s) (pdfTeX, Dvips, YAP, Xdvi, + etc.) to the comicsans font-mapping file. + + * Refresh the TeX filename database. + + +Copyright and license +===================== + +Copyright (C) 2013 by Scott Pakin + +This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of +the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license +or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this +license is in: + + http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt + +and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version +2006/05/20 or later. + + +Acknowledgments +=============== + +Thanks to Bob Tennent for notifying me that Microsoft ceased +distributing Comic Sans themselves but that the font is now available +on SourceForge; thanks to Rolf Niepraschk for telling me about +cabextract, which can be used to extract fonts from comic32.exe; +thanks to Han The Thanh for presenting an alternate way to package the +Type 1 versions of Comic Sans, which facilitate comicsans's use with +Vietnamese typesetting; and thanks to Norbert Preining for identifying +some issues with the packaging of comicsans for CTAN. -- cgit v1.2.3