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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ar/ar.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ar/ar.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d7d11397e2b --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ar/ar.txt @@ -0,0 +1,125 @@ +File: ar.txt +Purpose: Description of the ar font and package bundle +Author: Claudio Beccari, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy +E-mail: beccari@polito.it +Date: 21 april 1998 (on the 2751st anniversary of Rome) + + +Copyright 1998,1999,2000 Claudio Beccari + +The programs contained in this bundle can be redistributed and/or +modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed +from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either +version 1 of the License, or any later version. + + + +The ar font and package bundle is used to insert the "aspect ratio" symbol +in any text and formula dealing with (presumably) aeronautics. The "aspect +ratio" symbol is a ligature among a capital A and a capital R, much as the +\AE command produces a ligature among a capital A and a capital E. The +ligature AR as a means of indicating the "aspect ratio" is meaningful only +in mathematics, so that only the inclined (italic) form is available, +although the METAFONT source statements were written in such a way as to +produce the symbol in any font family, series and shape. + +The .mf files are for the generation of the AR ligature in the same sizes as +the standard math-italic fonts; the ar.sty package (or option in terms of +the old LaTeX209 terminology) is for the necessary definitions. In practice +as a final user you should start your LaTeXe document with: + +\documentclass[...]{book}% or whatever other document class +\usepackage{ar} +... +\begin{document} +... +\end{document} + +If you prefer to use LaTeX in its 209 version or in compatibility mode, you +start with: + +\documentstyle[...,ar]{book}% or whatever other document style +... +\begin{document} +... +\end{document} + +The "aspect ratio" symbol is simply obtained by using the command + +\AR + +indifferently in math mode or in text mode. + +Remember, though, that with true LaTeX209 the \AR command produces a single +sized symbol (by default 10pt), and if you want another size you have to +edit ar.sty and change the string + +at 10pt + +with, say, + +at 12pt + +This is so rudimentary that you'd better start using LaTeXe, where all the +size changes are correctly dealt with by the New Font Selection Scheme +(NFSS) without your intervention. + + +The bundle contains the following files: + ar5.mf + ar6.mf + ar7.mf + ar8.mf + ar9.mf + ar10.mf + ar12.mf + ar.sty + ar.txt + +Move the .mf file somewhere where METAFONT can find them; this depends on +the TeX-METAFONT system you are using, but if you cope with the official +TDS directory scheme, you might place them in + +\texmf\fonts\source\local\ar + +(you should probably create/add the "branch" local\ar). + +Similarly move ar.sty in a directory searched by LaTeX, possibly, with the +official TDS system, in + +\texmf\tex\latex\misc + +If your system requires it (as with MikTeX, for instance) you might choose +to run such an application as + +configure -u + +in order to let the executables know about the files you added and where +they are. + +Depending on the system you are using, at this point you might need to +generate the font .tfm and .pk files, but if you are using a modern system +such as MikTeX, for example, you need not worry any more and you can +directly use the ar.sty package. As soon as the latex executable finds a +reference to \AR, it controls the existance of the suitable .tfm file, and, +should it be missing (not yet generated), it shells out to another +application, maketfm, that produces the necessary file and moves it in the +proper subdirectory. Similarly when you preview and/or print your document, +the accompanying drivers (yap, dvips, etc.) run the application that +produces the .pk files suited for the screen and/or the printer pixel +density. + +If you do not have such modern tools, it is necessary to run METAFONT by +hand or by means of a script or batch or command file in order to produce +the fundamental .tfm files and the pixel files suited to your printer and/or +screen; your scripts should move the .tfm files where they belong, and the +.pk files where your drivers can find them. Please read the relevant +documentation that acompanies your software; it is difficult to give error +free instructions valid for any operating system, any system configuration, +and any software. + + +Happy LaTeXing! + + + |