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+(package is currently unmaintained)
+
+June 18, 1993 -- Thomas Ridgway
+
+The wnri fonts are released under the GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your
+option), any later version.
+
+
+This is a quick note to explain what is what in this directory:
+ it may ultimately be fleshed out (it needs to be).
+
+Here we have metafont source for fonts useful for
+ Old English
+ Indic languages in Roman transliteration
+ Puget Salish (Lushootseed) and other American Indian languages
+
+These are in the families
+ wngb* Washington Gerald Barnett (old English)
+ wnri* Washington Romanized Indic
+ wnps* Washington Puget Salish
+
+ The wngb and wnri families have previously been available
+privately on a test basis. The wnps family was privately circulated
+under the names wnpfa* and wnpfb* (Washington phonetic font a and b).
+All prior versions are obsolete and no longer being modified/developed/
+corrected.
+
+Note that although WNRI is based on the Classical Sanskrit Extended character
+set it has been extended yet again to provide character support for
+other languages which might be encountered in an Indic context, and may be
+useful to someone working in a great many east-of-Suez contexts.
+
+Some of these have had little or no real world testing, so evaluate before
+committing to their use, particularly the sans serif and typewriter faces.
+
+The top-level files which you actually run metafont on are
+wngbb10.mf WNGB bold 10
+wngbb8.mf bold 8
+wngbbx10.mf bold extended 10
+wngbi10.mf italic 10
+wngbi8.mf italic 8
+wngbib10.mf italic bold 10 (should be bold italic)
+wngbr10.mf roman 10
+wngbr8.mf roman 8
+wngbss10.mf san serif 10
+wngbt10.mf typewriter 10
+wnpsb10.mf WNPS bold 10
+wnpsb8.mf bold 8
+wnpsbi10.mf bold italic 10
+wnpsi10.mf italic 10
+wnpsi8.mf italic 8
+wnpsr10.mf roman 10
+wnpsr8.mf roman 8
+wnpss10.mf sanserif 10
+wnpss8.mf sans 8
+wnpst10.mf typewriter 10
+wnpst8.mf typewriter 8
+wnrib10.mf WNRI bold 10
+wnrib8.mf bold 8
+wnribi10.mf bold italic 10
+wnrii10.mf italic 10
+wnrii8.mf italic 8
+wnrir10.mf roman 10
+wnrir8.mf roman 8
+wnris10.mf sans 10
+wnris8.mf sans 8
+wnrit10.mf typewriter 10
+wnrit8.mf typewriter 8
+
+The rest of this file is historical information.
+
+This directory has texts and font materials which may be of interest
+to those working with India. This README file is a combined successor
+to previously separate README and UPDATES files. Many of these texts are
+also available in the format in which they were originally posted (and
+reflecting a state of the texts prior to our possible introduction of
+errors) on the host ftp.bcc.ac.uk in the directory pub/users/ucgadkw/indology
+The names have been changed to make things hopelessly confusing (but also
+to permit keeping both versions in the same place at the same time).
+
+
+May 15 1992: the file panini.zip has been added; panini has
+ the file sutrapat.csx, with the asthadhyayi in
+ the Classical Sanskrit extended character set.
+ This is a modified form of the text as made available
+ on the Indology listserver at liverpool.ac.uk
+
+May 15 1992: for those with PCs, the files wnrir.ega, wnrir.vga,
+ wnrirega.com, and wnrirvga.com may be of interest.
+ [These must be transferred in binary mode]. The files
+ wnrir.ega and wnrir.vga are screen fonts for EGA and VGA
+ respectively (the VGA font is also the right size for a
+ Hercules plus). Those with screen font downloading
+ utilities may use these fonts to view Sanskrit material
+ encoded with CS/CSX encoding --such as sutrapat.csx above.
+
+ The files wnrirega.com and wnrirvga.com are small program
+ files which load the video controller with the screen fonts;
+ these programs *do not* stay memory resident. Anything
+ which resets the video controller (e.g. the `mode' command,
+ or most graphics programs) will evict the wnrir font. Some
+ cards have been marketed as having `VGA graphics' but do not
+ support VGA fonts; if you have such a card you can likely use
+ the wnrirega.com program.
+
+ None of these are useful for plain Hercules or clone `mono-
+ graphics' cards, or for CGA cards (or for that matter causing
+ rain to fall or cooking the perfect ras malai).
+
+15 May 1992: the file bddhcrtm.zip has been added; this contains the TEI
+ encoded text of the buddhacarita prepared by Peter Schreiner
+ retranscribed in the CS/CSX encoding.
+
+
+23 June, 1992: The file brhatsam.zip has been added; this contains the
+ transcription of Varhahamira's Brhatsamhita made available
+ by Michio Yano and Mizue Sugita (based on the A.V. Tripathi
+ Sarasvati Bhavan Granthamala edition) converted to Classical
+ Sanskrit Extended 8-bit encoding (CS/CSX).
+
+19 August, 1992: The file saundary.zip has been added; this contains the
+ Peter Schreiner transcription of Norman Brown's edition of
+ Shankara's Saundarylahari [converted to CSX encoding].
+
+30 March, 1993: The file rasratna.zip has been added. The metafont-specific
+ portions have been relocated into their own subdirectory
+ 'metafont'. Concerning rasratna:
+ This is the IASS/CSX encoded version of:
+ The Rasaratnasamuccaya of Vagbhata: machine
+ readable transcription, based on the Anandasrama
+ Sanskrit Series edition, vol. 19, edited by
+ Krishnaravasharman Vinayaka Bapata, Poona 1890.
+ Covers up to chapter 5, verse 23.
+ Transcription by Wieslaw Mical, Som Dev Vasudeva
+ and Anne Glazier, of SOAS, London.
+
+
+In the directory metafont is a CSX version of Computer Modern.
+This is a pre-release version of the Washington Romanized Indic
+family of fonts, based on the proposed CS/CSX encoding of
+transliterated Sanskrit (and other Indic languages). The fonts
+contain a copy of the standard CMR fonts in positions 0 to 127
+and the CS/CSX characters in their locations in `upper ASCII'
+according to the proposed standard. The fonts also contain
+other characters which are not recognized in the CS/CSX standard;
+some of these are drawn from the IBM-PC character set, and some
+are from other transliteration systems which may be convenient for
+people dealing with India.
+
+Be advised that the font families are still under development and
+changes, including changes in the arrangement of the HACC extension
+characters may be made. The CS/CSX characters do not at this
+point have kerning values applied to them. You won't be able to
+do much with any of these unless you know how to run Metafont.
+Don't ask me; look it up. The CS/CSX characters, --by default--,
+do not place the correct information in the tfm file about their
+actual heights and depths; this is arguably the `correct' behavior
+for characters which are `accented' (it is also arguably incorrect).
+It will, however, prevent you from being able to apply TeX's own
+accent operations to the characters in the CS/CSX set since TeX won't
+know how tall they really are. (The rationale for the untruth BTW is
+to prevent awkward glops of whitespace intruding between lines when
+an *occasional* very tall accented character shows up.)
+
+
+June 18, 1993: the metafonts are updated and moved to a new
+ directory. Test versions of outline fonts are
+ available in the outlines directory. Outline fonts
+ follow a slightly different coding scheme; examine
+ them with whatever keymap/charmap utility you may have.
+ Revise them with fontographer or fontmonger if you like.