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+\documentclass[12pt]{article}
+\usepackage{aurical}
+\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
+\begin{document}
+\begin{center}
+\Fontauri\fontsize{40pt}{40pt}\selectfont
+Auriocus Kalligraphicus \\
+\fontsize{30pt}{30pt}\selectfont %
+\textemdash{} a decorative font in T1 encoding \textemdash
+\end{center}
+
+This package implements a font I created for fun in April 2004. In fact I needed an absolutely free
+font that I could change (i.e. add all accent marks necessary to write Czech) and distribute. The
+font has been created in the following manner:
+
+First, I drew all characters on paper with a calligraphic pen. These images have been scanned as a
+truecolor bitmap using sane. The  image has been further processed with GIMP to extract the
+foreground characters. The image has then been broken up into its individual characters, which hav
+been named according to their unicode value like \emph{uni0074.png}. 
+
+These images can be imported to fontforge\footnote{a very good, free font editor, formerly known as
+pfaedit}. Then I ran ``Autotrace'' from fontforge's menu, which started
+Peter Selingers potrace on the scanned images to produce the first, raw outlines. Potrace does a
+very good job, so despite the bad quality of the scanned images the first version of the font has
+been done within a few hours. 
+
+\Fontauri\fontsize{14pt}{14pt}\selectfont  Despite the fact, that the font is meant to be
+decorative, it is quite good readable even for longer texts, though not at small pointsizes (I
+recommend a minimum of 12pt). 
+
+\normalfont\normalsize Usage is very simple: Just include \verb!\usepackage{aurical}! into the
+preamble of your document, then you can use \verb!\Fontauri!\Fontauri{} to switch to the calligraphic
+font and \normalfont\verb!\normalfont! to switch back. Of course the mapfile and the fontfiles need
+to be installed in the usual places, so that \TeX can find them. Alternatively you can copy all of
+the files into the same directory where your document is, and \verb!dvips! it with the command\\
+\texttt{dvips -u+./aurical.map yourdocument.dvi}\\
+
+Some characters are still missing, because I have no clue what they should look like, or just
+because I was too lazy to implement them. These are: compwordmark, perthousandzero,  @, Eng, Thorn,
+eth, thorn. The numbers should look like old style figures, the drawback is that they don't look good
+in calculations: \Fontauri 130-927=1057 \normalfont
+
+And now enjoy the font!
+
+\hfill{\Fontauri\fontsize{20pt}{20pt}\selectfont Christian Gollwitzer (Auriocus)}
+
+
+
+\end{document}