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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/ptsans/ptsans.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/ptsans/ptsans.tex index 636ca20ef35..a6ef7914451 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/ptsans/ptsans.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/ptsans/ptsans.tex @@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ \section{Introduction} -This package contains font PT Sans developed by ParaType for the project -\emph{public Types of Russian Federation} and released under open user -license. The font was designed by Alexandra Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and -Vladimir Yefimov. For more information see the web-site of -\href{http://www.paratype.com}{ParaType}. +This package contains the LaTeX support for the font PT Sans developed by +ParaType for the project \emph{Public Types of Russian Federation} and +released under an open user license. The font was designed by Alexandra +Korolkova, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov. For more information see the +web-site of \href{http://www.paratype.com}{ParaType}. PT Sans has four basic styles: regular, \textbf{bold}, \textit{italic}, \textbf{\textit{bold italic}}; @@ -45,20 +45,35 @@ two narrow styles: and two caption styles: {\usefont{T1}{PTSansCaption-TLF}{m}{n}caption} and {\usefont{T1}{PTSansCaption-TLF}{b}{n}caption bold}. -The font covers wide range of Latin and Cyrillic alphabet and this package -supports encodings T1, OT1, IL2, TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C and X2. -There is also matching font PT Serif (the package will come later). +The font covers standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic code +pages and contains also characters of all title languages of Russian +Federation. + +This package supports encodings T1, OT1, IL2, TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C and X2. +If there is some important encoding missing, let me know and I will try +to add it to some future release. + +The fonts are included in the original TrueType format and in the converted +Type 1 format. + +Font PT Sans can be used together with the font PT Serif. \section{License} -The font PT Sans is licensed under Paratype Free Font License. +The font PT Sans is licensed under Paratype Free Font License (the license +is included). + +The fonts in TrueType format are original files provided by ParaType. The +fonts in Type~1 format are not original files. They were converted by me +using FontForge and may be distributed for \TeX\ only. The distribution of +these converted fonts was kindly allowed by ParaType. All the support files are licensed under \LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. -\section{Some Notes} +\section{Implementation} The package was created using \emph{fontools} but with some changes. @@ -69,20 +84,14 @@ The style files created by \emph{fontools} required the package \emph{fontenc} with all supported encodings. This might be a problem (for example if the encoding IL2 is not installed). Moreover the font has only tabular lining figures and therefore it does not need any extra support. -That is why I created much simpler style files. The original style files -were renamed by appending \emph{Old} at the end of the name. - -There were some inconsistencies in the width of letters with special type -of caron (ď, ť, ľ and Ľ). I made their width consistently equal to the -width of the unaccented letter. The change was done in the support files -without changing the original fonts. The simple script -\emph{caroncorrection.py} used for it is included. Now the usually -problematic Czech and Slovak words containing these letters look better: -\selectlanguage{czech}% -žluťoučký ďábel laťka loďka -%\selectlanguage{slovak}% -veľmi koľko Ľubomír. -\selectlanguage{english} +That is why I created much simpler style files. + +There are two map-files that you can use for the installation of the fonts +with \emph{updmap}: \emph{PTSans-truetype.map} and \emph{PTSans-type1.map}. +You should use just one of them. The file \emph{PTSans-type1.map} is a safe +choice and you will get the full power of \TeX. If you just want to create PDF +files with pdf\TeX\ or pdf\LaTeX\ you can use the file +\emph{PTSans-truetype.map} and the original TrueType fonts will be used. \section{Using the Package} @@ -96,13 +105,6 @@ For example: \usepackage{PTSans} \end{verbatim} -You can also use the style files PTSansOld, PTSansNarrowOld and -PTSansCaptionOld generated by \emph{fontools}. You do not need to use neither -the package \emph{fontenc} nor \emph{textcomp}. For example: -\begin{verbatim} -\usepackage{PTSansOld} -\end{verbatim} - You can typeset some text in a desired font like this: \begin{verbatim} {\usefont{T1}{PTSansNarrow-TLF}{b}{n}Text in narrow bold font} @@ -111,13 +113,8 @@ You can typeset some text in a desired font like this: \section{Known Bugs} -This is my first contribution and I soon realized that making a package -available also for others is much more work than just only for me. I decided -therefore to give it a reasonable amount of time, make the package usable, -release it and improve it later. - -The narrow and caption styles could be added to the base family. And I would -probably do so if there were four caption styles. +The narrow and caption styles are independent font families. It is your choice +where you will use them. Please \href{mailto:pavel.farar@centrum.cz}{send me} bug reports and suggestions about this package. |