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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/kerkis/License.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/kerkis/License.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..63a4d11e8c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/kerkis/License.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ + +The Copyright of the fonts belongs to the The Department of Mathematics of +the University of the Aegean, Karlobasi, Samos, Greece + +If you want to use this font family in commercial work (like in books) you +*must* include in the Copyright section the fact that you are using +"Kerkis (C) Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean". + +The Copyright of the Babel package and it's greek option must still be +respected. + +The Copyright of kerkis.sty belongs to A. Syropoulos and A. Tsolomitis. + diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/kerkis/README.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/kerkis/README.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8e7ac5be5d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/kerkis/README.html @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> + <title>Kerkis for LaTeX</title> + + <meta http-equiv="content-type" + content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7"> +</head> +<body> +<h1 align="center">The <i>Kerkis</i> Font Family </h1> +<h1 align="center">For LaTeX</h1> +<p>Among other features, Kerkis for LaTeX makes wide use of double forms for +several letters according to the hellenic typographic tradition that now +tends to be lost. In particular the letters beta, zeta, theta, rho and phi +have an initial and a different middle-word form.</p> +<p>Old style numbers (known as <i>lower case numbers</i> as well) are included +in the small caps font. Thus they are accessible with the \textsc or \scshape +command.</p> +<p>The fonts contain a full set of latin characters with accents that support +properly all latin-based languages (common like German, French etc and less +common like Icelandic). Special ligatures for "northern" languages like ij +and fj etc (try the word fiji or fjord) are also included and tested to work. +</p> +<p>Kerkis is especially usefull for the creation of pdf files due to the fact +that the fonts are in Type1 format.<br> +</p> +<p align="center"><big><font color="#660000"><big>Download<big><br> +</big></big></font></big></p> +<p align="left"><big><font color="#660000"><big><big><small><small><font + color="#000000"><small>Download the following zip file:</small> <a + href="Kerkis_for_LaTeX.zip"><small>Kerkis_for_LaTeX.zip</small></a></font></small><a + href="Kerkis.zip"><br> +</a></small></big></big></font></big></p> +<div align="left"><br> +<big> </big></div> +<center><font color="#660000"><big><big>Installation</big></big></font></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +If you have the previous version of kerkis installed you <b><font + color="#660000">must</font></b> first remove it<small> <big>or overwrite +it</big></small>. To do this or just to install it do the following steps:<br> +<ol> + <li>Replace or place the type1 files: locate the old files named <small><tt>k.pfb</tt></small>, + <small><tt>ki.pfb</tt></small>, <small><tt>kb.pfb</tt></small> etc and +delete them. Place the new files in the same place you had the old ones probably +in <small><tt>texmf/fonts/type1/kerkis or in this directory (create it!) if +you did not had kerkis before.</tt></small></li> + <li>Replace or place the afm files: locate the files <small><tt>k.afm</tt></small>, + <small><tt>ki.afm</tt></small>,<small><tt>kb.afm</tt></small> etc and +delete them. Place the new afm files in the same place you had the old ones +probably in <small><tt>texmf/fonts/afm/kerkis or in this directory (create +it!) if you did not had kerkis before.</tt></small><br> + </li> + <li>Replace or place the tfm and vf files (<small><tt>k8a.tfm</tt></small>, + <small><tt>ek8a.tfm</tt></small>, <small><tt>gk7a.tfm</tt></small> etc), +in <small><tt>texmf/fonts/tfm/kerkis </tt><big>and</big><tt> </tt></small><small><tt>texmf/fonts/vf/kerkis.</tt></small></li> + <li>Replace or place the old kerkis.sty, .fd files from the tex subdirectory +of the distribution in <small><tt>texmf/tex/latex/kerkis</tt></small>.</li> + <li>Replace or place the .enc files from the dvips subdirectory of the distribution +in <small><tt>texmf/dvips/base</tt></small>/kerkis (old ones might be in + <small><tt>texmf/dvips/base</tt></small>/).</li> + <li>Place the all html files from the doc subdirectory in <small><tt>texmf/doc/latex/kerkis</tt></small>.</li> + <li>Place the kerkis.map file in <small><tt>texmf/dvips/base</tt></small>/kerkis. +If you had kerkis before edit the file psfonts.map (found in texmf/dvips/config +and/or texmf/dvips/base) and delete all entries relating to kerkis.</li> + <li>Run texhash (on unix) or refresh the filename database (in MikTeX).</li> + <li>Find the file <small><tt>updmap.cfg</tt></small> open it in an editor +and add the line: Map kerkis.map</li> + <li>Run updmap (on MikTeX I am not sure how to do this. Alternatively you +may append the contents of the file kerkis.map of the distribution to psfonts.map +after step 7 above, refresh the filename database (step 8) and skip steps +9 and 10).</li> + <li>Remove all bitmaps you may have from older kerkis instalations (remove +all .pk files in /var/lib/texmf/pk teTeX (on unix) texmf-var/fonts/pk in TeXLive +and localtexmf\fonts\pk in MikTeX.</li> +</ol> +<b><font color="#660000">You are ready to use the fonts now.</font></b> Just +note the following: +<ol> +1. Load the kerkis.sty package <i>after</i> you load the inputenc package +with the iso-8859-7 option +</ol> +<ol> +2. The -j option of dvips (which is usually the default) may not work properly +with older TeX installations (it works with modern ones). If you run into +such problems with dvips, either turn it off by issuing dvips -j0 file.dvi +or use the bitmap generation utility gfstopk by issuing dvips -V file.dvi +</ol> +<ol> + + <center><font color="#660000"><big>Stylistic issues<br> + <br> + </big></font></center> +Kerkis is a Neoclassical font. We believe that its strictly rationalist axis +makes it ideal for scientific typesetting. Moreover its moderate contrast +and apperture makes it perfectly readable. Its serifs are adnate so that +it guides your eyes smoothly on the line. + <p>Kerkis is a calm and quiet face that does not interfere with the expression +of important ideas in your documents.</p> + +<p>The latin part of the Kerkis font is URW Bookman (except some characters +that were missing from Bookman). URW has kindly allowed us to re-distribute +their Bookman inside Kerkis.</p> + +<p></p> +<p> A. Tsolomitis, atsol at aegean dot gr + + <center></center> + + <ul> + + </ul> + + <center> + <p><img src="http://iris.math.aegean.gr/software/kerkis/kerkispoly.gif" + height="192" width="627"></p> + </center> + + <p><br> + </p> + + <center><img src="http://iris.math.aegean.gr/software/kerkis/kerkis.gif"></center> +</ol> +<br> +<br> +<br> +</body> +</html> |