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+===========================================================
+ "Bera" font pack for LaTeX
+ as of 2004-09-30
+============================================================
+ Malte Rosenau
+ Walter Schmidt
+
+
+This collection comprises the "Bera" Type1 fonts and the
+files required to use them with LaTeX on the Un*x or PC
+platform.
+
+"Bera" is a set of three PostScript Type1 font families:
+Bera Serif (a slab-serif Roman), Bera Sans (a Frutiger
+descendant), and Bera Mono (monospaced/typewriter). The
+fonts were originally designed by Bitstream, Inc in TrueType
+format under the name "Bitstream Vera". These fonts are
+available from <http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/
+ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/>.
+
+Malte Rosenau converted the Vera fonts to the Postscript
+type1 format; the license required a different name ("Bera")
+to be assigend to the result. Ulrich Dirr (Art & Satz)
+reworked the kerning tables of the Bera Sans fonts.
+
+The file bera.pdf shows samples of the Bera fonts and lists
+all available families, series and shapes.
+
+The below installation instructions assume a TDS-compliant
+TeX system, such as teTeX, MikTeX or VTeX/Free. Yet they
+may not exactly fit your particular TeX system; please,
+consult its documentation, too! The directory name "texmf"
+refers to the root directory of a TDS directory tree. In
+case your TeX systems has more than one TDS tree, its
+documentation should tell you where to install new files.
+
+
+
+History
+-------
+2004-09-30
+ bugs in the kerning tables of BeraSans fixed
+
+2004-09-07
+ substantially improved kerning data for Bera Sans
+ (special thanks to Ulrich Dirr!);
+ minor fixes to the kerning data of Bera Serif;
+ miinor changes to the substititions in the fd files;
+ minor changes to the documentation;
+ font sample;
+
+2004-01-31
+ preliminary release
+
+
+
+Installing the Type1 font files
+-------------------------------
+The Type1 font files
+
+ fveb8a.pfb
+ fver8a.pfb
+ fvmb8a.pfb
+ fvmbo8a.pfb
+ fvmr8a.pfb
+ fvmro8a.pfb
+ fvsb8a.pfb
+ fvsbo8a.pfb
+ fvsr8a.pfb
+ fvsro8a.pfb
+
+are to be copied to the directory
+
+ texmf/fonts/type1/public/bera
+
+of your TeX system, and the related .afm files should go
+into
+
+ texmf/fonts/afm/public/bera
+
+Most likely, you will have to create these directories
+first.
+
+
+
+Installing the TeX support files from the archive bera.zip
+----------------------------------------------------------
+Unpack the ZIP archive bera.zip in the directory "texmf" of
+your TeX system; thus, all files will be copied to the
+appropriate directories.
+
+
+
+Updating the filename database
+------------------------------
+Many TeX systems require manual updating of a "filename
+database" after adding of new files. Please, consult the
+documentation of your TeX system!
+
+
+
+Configuring your TeX system
+---------------------------
+The required actions depend on the particular TeX system.
+Particular sets of instructions are provided below for
+
+ * teTeX 2.0 and later,
+ * VTeX/Free 8.x and later.
+
+In case you have a different TeX system, consult its
+documentation how to make it use the additional font map
+file named "bera.map". Two copies of this file reside in
+the directories texmf/dvips/config/ and
+texmf/fonts/map/dvips.
+
+Configuring teTeX:
+Use the shell script "updmap" to add the font map file named
+"bera.map" to the configuration. See the documentation of
+your particular teTeX version how to use the script. With
+teTeX 2.0 and above, execute the following commands:
+
+ texhash
+ updmap --enable Map bera.map
+
+
+Configuring VTeX/Free:
+Make VTeX read the additional font map ("aliasing") file
+bera.ali. This is usually accomplished by putting a record
+for this file into each of the configuration files
+
+ texmf/vtex/config/pdf.fm
+and
+ texmf/vtex/config/ps.fm
+
+"bera.ali" is to be added to the TYPE1 section of the
+above-mentioned files:
+
+ TYPE1 {
+ ...
+ bera.ali
+ }
+
+
+
+Using the Bera fonts with LaTeX
+-------------------------------
+See the file bera.txt, which resides in the directory
+texmf/doc/fonts/bera.
+
+
+
+Bugs and problems
+-----------------
+With older versions of the dvips program, font subsetting
+may fail with the Bera fonts. In this case, disable
+subsetting through the dvips option "-j0", or change the
+font map file bera.map accordingly.
+
+The Type1 fonts exhibit a font-specific encoding, rather
+than the usual "Adobe Standard". While this is irrelevant
+for TeX, it may lead to problems with applications from the
+non-TeX world. In case you encounter any such problem,
+please report to
+Malte Rosenau <malte.rosenau@theol.uni-goettingen.de>.
+
+Any bugs regarding the TeX metrics (including the kerning
+data), fd files and macros should be reported to
+WalterSchmidt <w.a.schmidt@gmx.net>.
+
+
+Legal notice
+------------
+The license terms for the Bera fonts are included in
+the file LICENSE.
+
+The contents of the archive file bera.zip are
+
+ Copyright (c) 2004 Walter Schmidt
+
+The files may be distributed (either as a ZIP archive or
+unpacked) and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX
+Project Public License, either version 1.2 of this license
+or (at your option) any later version. The latest version
+of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
+and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of
+LaTeX version 1999/12/01 or later.
+
+
+== finis