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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/amsfonts/cyr-alt/READ.ME b/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/amsfonts/cyr-alt/READ.ME deleted file mode 100644 index b9c981344a4..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/source/latex/amsfonts/cyr-alt/READ.ME +++ /dev/null @@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ -Virtual font files for use with WNCY* fonts: - -These virtual font files are provided in response to requests from -users in the TeX community. The encoding and ligatures included in the -University of Washington Cyrillic (WNCY) fonts were designed to -support the transliteration scheme used for keying Mathematical -Reviews (MR). The ligatures prevent proper hyphenation when the fonts -are used in cyrillic text, and the encoding is not compatible with -other existing encodings for keying Russian text. The enclosed -virtual font files eliminate the ligatures whose purpose was to enable -MR transliteration, while retaining the kerning information, and also -provide alternate encodings to allow direct keying of Russian text. - -One set of virtual fonts uses the name WLCY*. This set does not -re-encode the characters in the fonts. It simply removes the ligatures -which prevent correct hyphenation of Russian text. - -The other two sets of virtual fonts re-encode the characters to -conform to the other existing Cyrillic encoding conventions. The two -most common encodings are KOI-8 and Alternativnyj Variant (AV), and we -have included files to generate virtual fonts remapping the WNCY fonts -to each of these encodings. Both KOI-8 and AV encodings map the -Cyrillic characters into the upper 128 character locations of the -356-character font. In non-TeX environments, the Cyrillic characters -are commonly accessed by turning on the eighth bit for input from the -keyboard, thus allowing keying of Roman or Cyrillic characters from -the same keyboard. In these virtual fonts, we have imitated this -convention by mapping the standard CM characters to the lower 128 -locations and some of the WNCY characters to the upper 128 locations -in the virtual fonts. - -The files for KOI-8 encoding are called WKCY*, and those for AV encoding -are called WVCY*. - -These virtual font files are provided as is without any macro support, -as the AMS does not use the alternative encodings in-house and does not -have the expertise in-house to do an adequate job of providing such -macro support. If volunteers in the user community can provide such -macro support (e.g. a LaTeX package) and wish to contribute their work -to the AMSFonts distribution we would of course be glad to incorporate -it, to make it more easily available to other users. - -Similarly, support for (system-dependent) conveniences like keyboard -remapping for typing Russian is beyond the resources of the AMS and must -be obtained elsewhere. - -It is also assumed that the user understands about the use of virtual -fonts in TeX. Those who wish to use these virtual fonts but are -unfamiliar with the use of virtual fonts in TeX are referred to the -documentation for their own local implementation of TeX. Any current -implementation of TeX is capable of using virtual fonts, and includes -documentation for their use. A complete description of virutal fonts by -Donald Knuth is available in TUGBoat, the journal of the TeX Users Group, -Volume 11, No. 1, pages 13-23. - -For this initial release, we provide only the 10-point virtual font -for each font family. These will serve the needs of the majority of -users, and we shall develop and release the remaining sizes in the -near future. - |