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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/cmastro/00readme.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/cmastro/00readme.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..272414f3333 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/cmastro/00readme.tex @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +[no author was given in the sources] + +This message is in response to your request for my METAFONT source code +for the planetary symbols. I thank you for your interest, and I hope +that somebody out there may actually find these useful. + +The rest of this message contains: +\begin{itemize} +\item command procedures to set up and run computer-modern METAFONT; +\item font drivers at 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, and 5 pt; +\item source code for the symbols themselves; +\item a TeX file to define the symbols. + \end{itemize} + + +The basic scheme is that one of the driver files (e.g. CMASTRO10.MF) is +input to CMMF on the command line; it sets up values for the standard +computer modern variables, then inputs SYMBOLS.MF. This in turn defines +more symbols, then inputs the source code for each character in turn. +This is the same sort of scheme used by Knuth, particularly in the math +fonts, from which all this was taken. + +You may find that the arrows for Uranus and Neptune are very slightly +lopsided. I haven't had the time to investigate this; you are welcome to, +of course. + +[ +NOTE: the sources as they arrived were set up for a VMS site; I have +created two Unix shell scripts (`dozero.sh' and `dohalf.sh') to stand +in for the similar DCL scripts. Otherwise the files should be the same +under any system. + +I have also provided a different use of the fonts in `astro.sty', a +LaTeX style file which uses the fonts at magstep 4 (made by +dofour.sh) as nice big pictures (see demo.tex). + +Sebastian Rahtz +4-4-89 +] |