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This is the README for the forum package, version
2020-07-25.

This package provides the Forum fonts, designed by Denis
Masharov, for use with xeLaTeX abnd luaLaTeX. 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.

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). 

To use, add

\usepackage{forum}

to the preamble of your document. This will activate
Forum as the main (serifed) text font.

Options scaled=<number> or scale=<number> may be used to
scale the fonts.

The only figure style is proportional lining.

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 rest
of the package is licensed under the terms of the LaTeX
Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is
Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca)