This is the README for the forum package, version 2019-12-17. This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support for the Forum font, designed by Denis Masharov. Forum has antique, classic "Roman" proportions. It can be used to set body texts and works well in titles and headlines too. It is truly multilingual, with glyphs for Central and Eastern Europe, Baltics, Cyrillic and Asian Cyrillic communities. There is currently just a regular weight and an artificially emboldened bold. To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system download the file "tex-archive"/install/fonts/forum.tds.zip where the preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirrors.ctan.org. Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree, likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map files by enabling the Map file forum.map. To use, add \usepackage{forum} to the preamble of your document. This will activate Forum as the main (serifed) text font. LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or who wish to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option. Options scaled= or scale= may be used to scale the fonts. The only figure style is proportional lining. Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, LY1, TS1 and T2A/B/C. The original Truetype font was obtained from https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Forum and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory. The bold and type1 versions was created using fontforge. The support files were created using autoinst and otftotfm and are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca)