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README
Copyright 1995 Sebastian Rahtz

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
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 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
version 2005/12/01 or later.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'.

The Current Maintainer of this work is Sebastian Rahtz.

This work consists of all files listed in manifest.txt.

I have spent some while trying to look at Cyrillic encoding in
PostScript fonts, partly to make Lucida Cyrillic available.  
While doing that I also looked at Monotype Times.

What I have done is create:

 a) OT2enc.def and OT2wncyr.fd files to make Washington Cyrillic work 
    in normal LaTeX. 

 b) fontinst .mtx file for Cyrillic glyph names, and .etx file for 
    OT2 encoding; these in two versions, one for the names as found in
    Monotype Times Cyrillic, and one for names in Lucida Cyrillic 
    (AFII numbers, whatever they may be)

 c) a script (go) to run all the Monotype and Lucida fonts and make the metrics

 d) dvips map files for both families.
   
The result is a pretty good match for Lucida, and an almost perfect 
one for Monotype Times. The only thing missing in the latter (I pull
in a few characters from the corresponding roman font) is the strange
mis-shaped breve at '044 in Washington Cyrillic.

Note that i have left the Y&Y names for Lucida Cyrillic alone as the `raw' names
because I couldnt be bothered to rename them 

Have fun

Sebastian Rahtz
November 22nd 1995
s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk

(looked at and checked by Mattias Eller (tt91mel@student.tdb.uu.se) in
March 1996, and changes made to OT2enc.def and OT2wncyss.fd)