The sarabian bundle provides fonts for the South Arabian script, in use for 
about 1000 years from roughly 600 BC, together with appropriate files for
using them with LaTeX. The glyphs are the work of Alan Stanier.
This is one of a series of ancient scripts.

Changes in version 1.1 (2005/11/12)
o Font supplied as Postscript Type1 instead of MetaFont

Changes in version 1.0 (2000/09/30)
o First public release

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  Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press) herries dot press at earthlink dot net
  Copyright 2000--2005 Peter R. Wilson

  This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
  conditions of the Latex Project Public License, either
  version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any
  later version.
  The latest version of the license is in
    http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
  and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of
  LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later.

  This work has the LPPL maintenance status "author-maintained".

  This work consists of the files:
    README (this file)
    sarabian.dtx
    sarabian.ins
    sarabian.pdf
  and the derived files
    sarabian.sty
    t1sarab.fd
    sarab.map
    sarab10.mf

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     The distribution consists of the following files:
README (this file)
sarabian.dtx
sarabian.ins
sarabian.pdf    (user manual)
trysarabian.tex (example usage)
trysarabian.pdf (example usage)
sarab10.afm
sarab10.pfb
sarab10.tfm

    To install the bundle:
o If you want MetaFont sources uncomment the appropriate lines in sarab.ins.
o run: latex sarabian.ins, which will generate:
       sarabian.sty
       *.fd files
       sarabian.map
       and possibly sarab10.mf
o Move *.sty and *.fd files to a location where LaTeX will find them
    e.g., .../texmf-local/tex/latex/sarabian
o Move *.afm, *.pfb and *.tfm files to where LaTeX looks for font information
    e.g., .../texmf-var/fonts/afm/public/archaic/*.afm
          .../texmf-var/fonts/type1/public/archaic/*.pfb
          .../texmf-var/fonts/tfm/public/archaic/*.tfm
o Add the *.map information to the dvips/pdftex font maps
   If you want the MetaFont version as well:
   o Move the *.mf files to, e.g., .../texmf-var/fonts/source/public/sarabian
   o Add a line like the following to the (texmf/fontname/)special.map file:
     sarab10.mf    public      sarabian 
o Refresh the database
 (for more information on the above see the FAQ).

o run: (pdf)latex trysarabian for a test of the font

    If you want a full manual with all the MetaFont and LaTeX code and commentry, 
comment out the \OnlyDescription line in sarabian.dtx.
o run: (pdf)latex sarabian.dtx
o (for an index run: makeindex -s gind.ist sarabian.idx)
o run: (pdf)latex sarabian.dtx
o Print sarabian.(pdf|dvi) for a hardcopy of the package manual

2005/11/12
Peter Wilson
herries dot press at earthlink dot net






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    To install the * package:
o run: latex *.ins (which will generate *.sty)
o Move *.sty to a location where LaTeX will find it (for more
   information on this see the FAQ).

    To generate a second copy of the manual (which is already supplied as a PDF file):
o run: latex *.dtx
o (for an index run: makeindex -s gind.ist *.idx)
o run: latex *.dtx
o Print *.dvi for a hardcopy of the package manual

2005/99/99
Peter Wilson
herries dot press at earthlink dot net

 


    The distribution consists of the following files:
README (this file)
sarabian.ins
sarabian.dtx
tryfont.tex

    The distribution is provided under the terms of the LaTeX
Project Public License (LPPL).

    To install the package:
o run: latex sarabian.ins, which will generate:
       sarab*.mf files
       *.fd files
       sarabian.sty
o run: latex sarabian.dtx
o run: makeindex -s gind.ist sarabian
o run: latex sarabian.dtx
o Print sarabian.dvi for a hardcopy of the package manual 
o Move the generated files to locations where LaTeX will find them.
    For example: the *.fd and .sty files to .../local/texmf/tex/latex/sarabian
                 the sarab*.mf files to .../texmf/fonts/source/public/sarabian
    On a teTeX distribution you might also have to add the following 
    line to texmf/fontname/special.map:
      sarab10.mf     public    sarabian
    On a teTeX distribution remember to run texhash after moving the files.

o run: latex tryfont  for a testpage of the South Arabian font

2000/09/30
Peter Wilson
peter.r.wilson@boeing.com