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+                         NKARTA
+                         ------
+
+I have been unable to find the author or maintainer or copyright holder
+of the Metafont karta, containing map symbols. Problems have arisen with
+that font, mainly the usual ones: "Strange path" errors and capacity
+exceeded. I have change the coding a bit to try to avoid these. Also,
+there were two paths defined with incorrect turning number, causing
+elements of two figures to be omitted. This was also corrected. Aside
+from that, no actual paths were changed.  To avoid confusion with the
+original files, I have renamed the result nkarta, and place it in the
+public domain.
+
+The character shapes are all in nkchars.mf, which is input by a driver
+file nkarta.mf. The font produced has design size 15pt. A file
+nkart15.mf is provided as an example showing how that design size can be
+changed. In order to get a 20pt font, just copy nkarta15.mf to
+nkarta20.mf and then edit it, changing 15 to 20 everywhere.
+
+Finally, to allow larger scaling without risking exceeding Metafont's
+capacity, I have ported the figures to MetaPost in nkarta.mp. These
+figures have the same numbers as the corresponding characters in
+nkarta.mf. That is, after "mpost nkarta.mp", the file nkarta.NN
+contains the same picture as charater NN in the nkarta font. Without
+scaling, they will be the same size that nkarta.mf produces.
+
+One can also run mpost on nkarta15.mf (or nkarta20.mf if prepared as
+above). In that case nkarta15.NN (or nkarta20.NN) has the same figure as
+character NN of the font nkarta15 (or nkarta20).
+
+Files figtest.ps and fonttest.ps provide a table of the available
+figures/characters. They were obtained by running tex on the
+corresponding .tex files and then dvips (with option -Z in the case of
+fonttable.dvi).
+
+To install nkarta:
+-----------------
+1. Copy the .mf files somewhere Metafont will find them. In a TDS compliant
+   system, that would be a subdirectory path similar to
+       texmf-local/fonts/source/public/nkarta
+
+2. Copy the .tfm file somewhere TeX searches for TFM files, for example
+       texmf-local/fonts/tfm/public/nkarta
+
+3. Copy the .mp file and nkchars.mf where MetaPost will find them, for
+   example:
+       texmf-local/metapost/nkarta
+   (If your MP already looks in the MF search path, this second copy of
+   nkchars.mf is not necessary.)
+
+4. Copy readme, *.tex and *.ps where documentation is kept, for example:
+       texmf-local/doc/fonts/nkarta
+
+5. Refresh the filename database, if your system requires it.
+
+A list of the files and their uses.
+
+  README           This file.
+  nkarta.mf        Preliminary definitions for MF
+  nkarta.mp        Preliminary definitions for MP
+  nkchars.mf       Actual figures, input by nkarta.mf and nkarta.mp
+  nkarta15.mf      The font at 15pt.
+  nkarta15.tfm     Prebuilt .tfm file.
+  fonttable.tex    A table of the characters (requires testfont.tex
+                   and nkarta15.tfm).
+  fonttable.ps     Prebuilt PS file from running tex and dvips on above.
+  figtable.tex     A table of the figures (requires testfont.tex,
+                   epsf.tex, and nkarta15.tfm).
+  figtable.ps      Prebuilt PS file from running tex and dvips on above.
+
+
+--
+Daniel H. Luecking      email: luecking at uark dot edu
+Department of Mathematical Sciences
+University of Arkansas
+Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
+USA