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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-09 00:47:01 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-09 00:47:01 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/bookhands/README.egothic b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/bookhands/README.egothic new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..462eae9eb1a --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/bookhands/README.egothic @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ + The egothic and allegoth packages provide Metafont fonts based on the +Early Gothic manuscript book-hand used between the 11th & 12th century AD. +The font consists of minuscules and digits, with some appropriate +period punctuation marks. Both normal and bold versions are provided. +This is one in a series of manuscript fonts. + + Access to the docmfp package is desireable but not essential. + + The distribution consists of the following files: +README (this file) +egothic.ins +egothic.dtx +tryfont.tex +allfont.tex + + The distribution is provided under the terms of the LaTeX +Project Public License (LPPL). + +To install the package: +======================= + +o run: latex egothic.ins, which will generate: + egoth*.mf files + *.fd files + egothic.sty + allegoth.sty +o Move the generated files to locations where LaTeX will find them. + For example: the egoth*.mf files to .../texmf/fonts/source/public/egothic + the *.fd and *.sty files to /texmf/tex/latex/local/egothic + + On a teTeX distribution you might also have to add lines like the + following to texmf/fontname/special.map: + egoth7.mf public egothic + egoth10.mf public egothic + egoth17.mf public egothic + egothb7.mf public egothic + egothb10.mf public egothic + egothb17.mf public egothic + On a teTeX distribution remember to run texhash after moving the files. + + (I use a teTeX distribution and found that if I didn't add to the special.map + file, then the generated tfm and pk files were put in directories corresponding + to some vendor's font.) + + Other LaTeX distributions might require procedures similar to those for teTeX. + +To typeset the documentation: +============================= + +o run: latex egothic.dtx +o if you want an index then run: makeindex -s gind.ist egothic +o run: latex egothic.dtx +o Print egothic.dvi for a hardcopy of the package manual + + Note that the docmfp package is normally required for LaTeXing egothic.dtx. +The package is available from CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported. +If you haven't got this and don't want to get it, then there are instructions +in the first part of the .dtx file about how to edit it to avoid the use of docmfp. +(docmfp is an extension of the doc package for describing METAFONT, or other +non-LaTeX, code.) + + +To check out your installation: +=============================== + +o run: latex tryfont for a testpage of the fonts +o run: latex allfont for a document typeset with the fonts + +2002/12/30 +Peter Wilson +peter.r.wilson@boeing.com |