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[For some of the previous history see the - final notes on Ibycus 3, from May 30, 1966 in README.ibycus3] - - ( THIS IS A TDS-CONFORMANT PACKAGE ) - -BE SURE THAT ibycus4.map HAS BEEN MADE ACCESSIBLE AS DESCRIBED BELOW - -FOR INCOMPATIBILITIES WITH IBYCUS3, SEARCH FOR %%%%%%%%%%%% on page 3. - -Like its predecessors, Ibycus4 is based on Silvio Levy's -realization of a classic Didot cut of Greek type from around 1800. -Ibycus4 is as close as possible to Ibycus3 in all possible -respects, but there are some improved set widths and pair-kernings -which might clobber old carefully adjusted text spacings -such as Alexandrian shaped poetry. - -A sample input file is provided in iby4text.tex or ibycus4.ltx - -PLAIN TeX USAGE: \input iby4text - - then: \setgreek10/12 (or other reasonable combination - of pointsize and leading) - - then: Latin text \GK{}a)rxai=a gra'mmata\RM{} Latin again. - - NOTE that the ) is a smooth breathing, not a parenthesis. - -LaTeX2e USAGE: \usepackage{ibycus4} - - then: Latin text {\greek{a)rxai=a gra'mmata}} Latin again. - (Note the double braces, there is a font change here.) - - change font size with the \fontsize macro, thus: - - \fontsize{14}{17pt}\selectfont - - -The TeX files in $TEXMF/tex/generic/ibycus4 together with the METAFONT -files in $TEXMF/fonts/source/public/ibycus4 {\em especially -ibycus4.map} are intended to provide a reasonable degree of -compatibility between David Packard Jr.'s Ibycus/TLG system, and the -TeX and METAFONT environment. If you are not using Karl Berry's -path-searching or its equivalent, these TeX files may have to be moved -to an appropriate branch directory of $TEXMF/tex/ - continues . . . - - README Page 2 - -The TeX files are: - - 1. $TEXMF/tex/generic/ibycus4/ibycus4.tex - - The driver file for this package (in plain tex). - - 1a. $TEXMF/tex/generic/ibycus4/ibycus4.sty - - The driver file for this package (in LaTeX2e). - - 2. $TEXMF/tex/generic/ibycus4/setiby4.tex - - Included by ibygrk.tex unless newnep format is running - - 3. $TEXMF/tex/generic/ibycus4/tlgsqq.tex - - The name suggests the association with coding of the - Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. - - This file provides uniquely named macros for all combinations - of letter and accent, so that any invocation of the macro will - produce a sequence of characters corresponding with the - entries put into the TFM ligature table. These sequences may - always be used to generate accented characters. They are - based, with some slight modifications where David Packard's Ibycus - input coding seems too misleading, on the Ibycus adaptation of - TLG beta-code. - - For input coding, the parentheses, ) and ( are used for - breathings, ' (ASCII char '047--acute or single quote) and ` - (ASCII char '140--grave) are used for oxytone and barytone (to - avoid preemption of the usual TeX excape character) and = - (ASCII char '075) is used for perispomenon to avoid preemption - of the active tie character in plain.tex. + is used for - dieresis after u or i and for some other special characters. - | is used for iota subscript and ! (ASCII char '041--\bang) is - used to call out the "dot-under" convention for partially - preserved letters in manuscript or epigraphical texts. Order - is significant. Breathings or diereses come first, after the - affected letter, then accents, then iota subscript or \bang. - These codings represent the input coding convention, not the - mapping in the font itself. - - The digraphs, trigraphs etc. can be read from tlgsqq.tex - Postpositives fall into three order-dependent and - exclusive classes--only one from each class may be used - in any single accented cluster. - - 1 2 3 - nil nil nil - ( [asper] ' [oxytone] | [iota subscript] - ) [lenis] ` [barytone] ! [dot below letter] - + [other] = [perispomene] - - continues . . . - - README Page 3 - - Some special digraphs are K+ Koppa, k+ koppa, C+ lunate Cigma, - c+ lunate cigma, s+ sampi (lowercase late form only) and s| which - forces a medial sigma. - << and >> give guillemets (not guillemots as Adobe - ornithologically supposes) and (( )) give single parentheses - though care must be taken that the first ( or ) is not - interpreted as a breathing. {((} and {))} are safe. - - %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% - NOTE: THE FOLLOWING CODINGS ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH IBYCUS3 - %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% - I have tried to keep incompatible codings to the minimum - but the ibycus3 versions of the following were extremely - undesirable. These are all simplifications of ibycus3 coding. - %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% - The mark of elision is ' or {'} (the form in braces may be - needed to prevent ' from being read as an accent). - Single quotes may be provided by ` {`} and ' {'}, (isolate them - in braces if necessary). Double quotes are `` {``} and - '' {''} (isolate in braces if necessary). < and > are the - angle brackets used for conjectural supplements. - %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% - - 4. ibycus4.map - - This is {\em exactly} the same file as is used by METAFONT. - Copy $TEXMF/fonts/source/public/ibycus4/ibycus4.map - to the same directory as ibycus4.tex - or, even better, link it with a symbolic link. - It is so structured that it can be read by either - TeX or Metafont. The mapping is very close to that of GreekKeys, - which is distributed for the Macintosh by the American - Philological Association. Other mappings can be created - in the same manner. - - 5. $TEXMF/tex/generic/ibycus4/Uibycus4.fd - - Supporting fd file for LaTeX2e. - - 6. $TEXMF/tex/generic/ibycus4/iby4extr.tex - - Access to some editorial symbols for classical editions. - - continues . . . - - README Page 4 - - 7. $TEXMF/tex/generic/ibygrk/ibycus4.ltx - $TEXMF/tex/generic/ibygrk/iby4text.tex - The exquisite little poem by Ibycus of Rhegium, until recently - almost the only thing known by him. (The Ibycus system - developed by David Packard is only indirectly named after - the poet. The direct inspiration was Packard's cat.) - - M E T A F O N T - -The METAFONT part of the package consists of a set of files which use -the original characters of Silvio Levy's greek fonts and combine them -in ways which reflect the increased capabilities of TeX and METAFONT -developed since Levy did the original greek for TeX. The Levy source -files can be got from one of the CTAN archives and placed in -$TEXMF/fonts/source/public/levy - where they will automatically become -accessible if you are using a TeX Directory Structure [TDS] layout of -files. If you are not using a file searching system like Karl Berry's -"kpathsea", see $TEXMF/fonts/source/public/ibycus4/ibycus4.mf for -hints on making the Levy source available. For directions on the -use and management of Karl Berry's path searching, consult "The TeX -Live Guide, version 2" by Sebastian Rahtz and Michael Goosens, in -{\it TUGboat}. Volume 18 (1997). Pages 81-112, especially pp. 87--9. -Web2c TeX for Unix systems, Thomas Esser's teTeX, and the Solaris package -referenced at http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5.html all use Karl -Berry's path searching. - -Ibycus4 METAFONT files are in $TEXMF/fonts/source/public/ibycus4 - -The most significant changes are: - - 1. The large repertory of initial/medial sigma + letter pairs - is suppressed from the new fonts, and the new enhanced TFM - ligature scheme is used instead to provide for the automatic - differentiation between medial and final sigma. - - 2. The cells thus opened up in the font mapping are used for - a variety of additional characters: - - a. A full repertory of vowels with breathings and - barytone accents (many of these were absent from the - original). The various forms of long epsilon and - omicron with perispomene accent needed for early Attic - and similar local scripts are provided. - - b. Lunate sigma, digamma, koppa and sampi are - provided (the last in its lowercase late form - only, since earlier forms are rather problematic - and are virtually unused even in epigraphical texts). - - c. A simple iota subscript in a 0.5em character space - is provided at position '174 for use in unusual - - continues . . . - - README Page 5 - - groupings. For all normal usages three additional - occurences of the glyph are kerned (in the traditional - sense) far to the left so that they will fit under - alpha, eta and omega respectively. These characters - are called out automatically through the TeX TFM - ligature system, for which see below. The glyph under - eta is shortened slightly to give better clearance - under the left stem of lowercase eta. The iota - subscript glyph retains its simple form in 300dpi - renditions, and in any bitmap which drops below - 500dpi, but it thins out and develops a slight - rightward hook at 600dpi and above. - - d. The mechanism of drastic left kerning is also used - to set dots under letters which cannot be read - completely from the manuscript or stone. These dota - are likewise called out automatically through the TFM - ligature system. A final ! {\bang} after any letter - or letter with postpositive accents (except those - with iota subscripts) will produce the dotted form. - - e. Angle brackets, half brackets, double quotes, braces, - a dagger and a doubledagger are now provided (see - iby4extr.tex). - - 3. All characters have been named. The constructs - ASCII"A" and oct"000" appear only at lower levels - of programming. - - 4. Character spacing has been adjusted through kerning tables, - particularly around lowercase iota (file ibylig4.mf). - There is better separation between breathings and accents - (this has required a redesign of almost all accents) and - clearance between accent and base letter has been increased. - The perispomene has been restored to its traditional form with - a thick center and tapered ends, and the breathings have been - given shorter, tapered tails. The deep ink trap between the - bulb and tail of the breathings has been eliminated. Accents - over epsilon have been raised and slightly shortened to give - better clearance. The accents with diaeresis have been shifted - up and laterally to clear the dot they lean toward. - - 5. Font mapping is specified independently of other - parameters, in a distinct and separate file (file ibycus4.map). - In some cases it may be more effective to remap the font - than to struggle with TeX remapping. - - continues . . . - - README Page 6 - - 6. A programming error which produced the wrong displacement - value with free-standing accents has been corrected. Accents - before uppercase vowels are kerned (in the traditional sense) - out left to a negative left side bearing of about one unit - (1/18em) unit so that their escapement does not leave - excessive space after the preceding word or at the start of a - line. They have also been properly pair-kerned with the - uppercase vowels. - -A new naming convention uses "ibycus4" wherever possible, and -the shorter string "iby4" where that would lead to ambiguity. -some of the individual METAFONT character files are simply -taged with the number 4. 8+3 filename compatibility is preserved. -(under protest and with difficulty). - -The names of PK and TFM files follow Karl Berry's font name convention -( 84 is the encoding for Ibycus 4). - -Foundry Facename Weights Variants Encoding_Variants DesignSize - -f ib [r], b r, o 84 [10], 9, 8 - -fibr84 fibo84 fibb84 - - with METAFONT design-size additions -fibr848 fibo848 fibb848 -fibr849 fibo849 fibb849 - -Driver files for the Bold Oblique variant can be provided but their use -is discouraged. These Didot-derived characters do not stand up well -to either boldfacing or obliqueing, and the combination is quite -unfortunate. The typewriter style originally offered with these -designs is quietly forgotten, although the code for it is still -embedded in Silvio Levy's source. - - Also in the works, a type1 version. - -Pierre A. MacKay -Department of Classics -University of Washington -mackay@cs.washington.edu |