The B1 encoding has been introduced to support the Bookhands fonts ---
a series of fonts for manuscript bookhands. 

    If there are any question please ask them on the comp.text.tex newsgroup

Changes in version 1.0 (2005/11/27)
o First public release

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  Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press) herries dot press at earthlink dot net
  Copyright 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)
    b1encoding.dtx
    b1encoding.ins
    b1encoding.pdf
  and the derived files
    b1enc.def
    TeXB1.enc
    b1cmr.fd

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     The distribution consists of the following files:
README (this file)
b1encoding.dtx
b1encoding.ins
b1encoding.pdf

    To install the bundle:
o run: latex b1encoding.ins (which will generate the derived files)
o Move b1enc.def into a location where LaTeX look for *.def files,
       for example /usr/TeX/texmf-local/tex/latex/bookhands/b1enc.def
o Similarly move TeXB1.enc, 
       for example /usr/TeX/texmf-local/tex/latex/bookhands/TeXB1.enc
o And also b1cmr.fd
       for example /usr/TeX/texmf-local/tex/latex/bookhands/b1cmr.fd
o Don't forget to update the file database.
 (for more information on all this see the FAQ).

    To generate a second copy of the manual (which is already supplied as a PDF file):
o run: latex b1encoding.dtx
o (for an index run: makeindex -s gind.ist b1encoding.idx)
o run: latex b1encoding.dtx
o Print b1encoding.dvi for a hardcopy of the manual

2005/11/27
Peter Wilson
herries dot press at earthlink dot net