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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/wnri/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/wnri/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d73343d276a --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/wnri/README @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +(package is currently unmaintained) + +June 18, 1993 -- Thomas Ridgway + +The wnri fonts are released under the GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your +option), any later version. + + +This is a quick note to explain what is what in this directory: + it may ultimately be fleshed out (it needs to be). + +Here we have metafont source for fonts useful for + Old English + Indic languages in Roman transliteration + Puget Salish (Lushootseed) and other American Indian languages + +These are in the families + wngb* Washington Gerald Barnett (old English) + wnri* Washington Romanized Indic + wnps* Washington Puget Salish + + The wngb and wnri families have previously been available +privately on a test basis. The wnps family was privately circulated +under the names wnpfa* and wnpfb* (Washington phonetic font a and b). +All prior versions are obsolete and no longer being modified/developed/ +corrected. + +Note that although WNRI is based on the Classical Sanskrit Extended character +set it has been extended yet again to provide character support for +other languages which might be encountered in an Indic context, and may be +useful to someone working in a great many east-of-Suez contexts. + +Some of these have had little or no real world testing, so evaluate before +committing to their use, particularly the sans serif and typewriter faces. + +The top-level files which you actually run metafont on are +wngbb10.mf WNGB bold 10 +wngbb8.mf bold 8 +wngbbx10.mf bold extended 10 +wngbi10.mf italic 10 +wngbi8.mf italic 8 +wngbib10.mf italic bold 10 (should be bold italic) +wngbr10.mf roman 10 +wngbr8.mf roman 8 +wngbss10.mf san serif 10 +wngbt10.mf typewriter 10 +wnpsb10.mf WNPS bold 10 +wnpsb8.mf bold 8 +wnpsbi10.mf bold italic 10 +wnpsi10.mf italic 10 +wnpsi8.mf italic 8 +wnpsr10.mf roman 10 +wnpsr8.mf roman 8 +wnpss10.mf sanserif 10 +wnpss8.mf sans 8 +wnpst10.mf typewriter 10 +wnpst8.mf typewriter 8 +wnrib10.mf WNRI bold 10 +wnrib8.mf bold 8 +wnribi10.mf bold italic 10 +wnrii10.mf italic 10 +wnrii8.mf italic 8 +wnrir10.mf roman 10 +wnrir8.mf roman 8 +wnris10.mf sans 10 +wnris8.mf sans 8 +wnrit10.mf typewriter 10 +wnrit8.mf typewriter 8 + +The rest of this file is historical information. + +This directory has texts and font materials which may be of interest +to those working with India. This README file is a combined successor +to previously separate README and UPDATES files. Many of these texts are +also available in the format in which they were originally posted (and +reflecting a state of the texts prior to our possible introduction of +errors) on the host ftp.bcc.ac.uk in the directory pub/users/ucgadkw/indology +The names have been changed to make things hopelessly confusing (but also +to permit keeping both versions in the same place at the same time). + + +May 15 1992: the file panini.zip has been added; panini has + the file sutrapat.csx, with the asthadhyayi in + the Classical Sanskrit extended character set. + This is a modified form of the text as made available + on the Indology listserver at liverpool.ac.uk + +May 15 1992: for those with PCs, the files wnrir.ega, wnrir.vga, + wnrirega.com, and wnrirvga.com may be of interest. + [These must be transferred in binary mode]. The files + wnrir.ega and wnrir.vga are screen fonts for EGA and VGA + respectively (the VGA font is also the right size for a + Hercules plus). Those with screen font downloading + utilities may use these fonts to view Sanskrit material + encoded with CS/CSX encoding --such as sutrapat.csx above. + + The files wnrirega.com and wnrirvga.com are small program + files which load the video controller with the screen fonts; + these programs *do not* stay memory resident. Anything + which resets the video controller (e.g. the `mode' command, + or most graphics programs) will evict the wnrir font. Some + cards have been marketed as having `VGA graphics' but do not + support VGA fonts; if you have such a card you can likely use + the wnrirega.com program. + + None of these are useful for plain Hercules or clone `mono- + graphics' cards, or for CGA cards (or for that matter causing + rain to fall or cooking the perfect ras malai). + +15 May 1992: the file bddhcrtm.zip has been added; this contains the TEI + encoded text of the buddhacarita prepared by Peter Schreiner + retranscribed in the CS/CSX encoding. + + +23 June, 1992: The file brhatsam.zip has been added; this contains the + transcription of Varhahamira's Brhatsamhita made available + by Michio Yano and Mizue Sugita (based on the A.V. Tripathi + Sarasvati Bhavan Granthamala edition) converted to Classical + Sanskrit Extended 8-bit encoding (CS/CSX). + +19 August, 1992: The file saundary.zip has been added; this contains the + Peter Schreiner transcription of Norman Brown's edition of + Shankara's Saundarylahari [converted to CSX encoding]. + +30 March, 1993: The file rasratna.zip has been added. The metafont-specific + portions have been relocated into their own subdirectory + 'metafont'. Concerning rasratna: + This is the IASS/CSX encoded version of: + The Rasaratnasamuccaya of Vagbhata: machine + readable transcription, based on the Anandasrama + Sanskrit Series edition, vol. 19, edited by + Krishnaravasharman Vinayaka Bapata, Poona 1890. + Covers up to chapter 5, verse 23. + Transcription by Wieslaw Mical, Som Dev Vasudeva + and Anne Glazier, of SOAS, London. + + +In the directory metafont is a CSX version of Computer Modern. +This is a pre-release version of the Washington Romanized Indic +family of fonts, based on the proposed CS/CSX encoding of +transliterated Sanskrit (and other Indic languages). The fonts +contain a copy of the standard CMR fonts in positions 0 to 127 +and the CS/CSX characters in their locations in `upper ASCII' +according to the proposed standard. The fonts also contain +other characters which are not recognized in the CS/CSX standard; +some of these are drawn from the IBM-PC character set, and some +are from other transliteration systems which may be convenient for +people dealing with India. + +Be advised that the font families are still under development and +changes, including changes in the arrangement of the HACC extension +characters may be made. The CS/CSX characters do not at this +point have kerning values applied to them. You won't be able to +do much with any of these unless you know how to run Metafont. +Don't ask me; look it up. The CS/CSX characters, --by default--, +do not place the correct information in the tfm file about their +actual heights and depths; this is arguably the `correct' behavior +for characters which are `accented' (it is also arguably incorrect). +It will, however, prevent you from being able to apply TeX's own +accent operations to the characters in the CS/CSX set since TeX won't +know how tall they really are. (The rationale for the untruth BTW is +to prevent awkward glops of whitespace intruding between lines when +an *occasional* very tall accented character shows up.) + + +June 18, 1993: the metafonts are updated and moved to a new + directory. Test versions of outline fonts are + available in the outlines directory. Outline fonts + follow a slightly different coding scheme; examine + them with whatever keymap/charmap utility you may have. + Revise them with fontographer or fontmonger if you like. |