This file contains instructions for one way of installing and using
the lovely Poetica fonts from Adobe Systems with TeX and LaTeX. The
files in this area contain everything but the font files themselves
(*.pfb) which are of course proprietary.

The main description of this material appears in the article by Alan
Hoenig (me) in the Proceedings of the 16th Annual TeX User Group
meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL, 1995 (to appear).  Alas, that article
requires the actual Poetica fonts themselves, so although that file
(poetica.tex) is included, the commands to actually include the
Poetica types have been commented out.  It should be construed as the
user guide.

Setting Up.
===========

Place all the vf files in the vf/ subdirectory with all your other vf
(virtual font) files.  

Place all the tfm files in the tfm/ subdirectory with your other tfm
files.

Place all the input files in the inputs/ subdirectory with your other
system inputs (probably in a place called something like
/usr/tex/inputs).  You might want to rename the file `ot1poe.fd' to
`OT1poe.fd' if your system allows this. The file fontpoet.tex is the
fontinst installation file.

Check the file poetica.map in the doc/ subdirectory.  It gives the
correspondance between the raw font files and the Poetica fonts.  You
should rename your Poetical font files according to the entries in
this file.  For example, the first line of this file reads

  poce0		Poetica-ChanceryExpert	</psfonts/poce.pfb

which means you have to find the .pfb file whose FontName is
Poetica-ChanceryExpert and rename is to `poce.pfb'.  (This is a
laborious process; sorry about that.)  Proceed in this way for of the
files.  The part following the angle bracket is an instruction for
dvips to download this font file as needed from a directory called
/psfonts on my system.  You'll need to change this designation to
accord with the place where you store the .pfb files.  Add the
contents of poetica.map to psfonts.map, the dvips alias file. 

Using the Fonts.
================

Plain TeX Users:  Check the contents of the vf/ subdirectory.  Any one
of these fonts can be can be selected and used in the usual way, ie,
 
 \font\foo=poce at 18pt \foo

LaTeX2e Users:  Use the package poetica.sty via a declaration like
 
 \usepackage{poetica}

which makes the Poetica environment available to you.  Check the file
poetica.tex for further details.

LaTeX209 Users: Since the poetica package uses the New Font Selection
Scheme heavily, there's no special advantage to be gained by using
this material in latex209.  My advice: upgrade to latex2e.

Testing.
========

The files sonnet.tex and beauty.tex in the doc\ subdirectory provide a
test of Poetica typesetting.  After installation, compile these files
using latex2e.

Good Luck!
==========

If you have any comments or suggestions, drop me an electronic line.
Enjoy this stuff.

---Alan Hoenig [ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu]