FONTS AND TYPESETTING MACROS FOR THE COPTIC LANGUAGE Version 0.2 2005/04/11 LEGAL STUFF Copyrights: METAFONT files: S. Rosmorduc 1995 and C. Beccari 2004 other files: Claudio Beccari 2004 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 this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/12/01 or later. The METAFONT files listed below were originally prepared in 1995 by Serge Rosmorduc and were under the GNU Public Licence; they have been completely reorganized and the fonts themselves were enriched with many additional glyphs; although the work of the original author is here fully acknowledged, due to these enhancements and the different structures and names, these files are now under the LPPL licence. This work has the LPPL maintenance status "not maintained". This work consists of the following files README this file coptbase.mf METAFONT macros copto.mf driver file for Ordinary (upright) Coptic fonts copti.mf driver file for Inclined (slanted) Coptic fonts testcop.tex source LaTeX file for testing macros and for showing macro usage testcopOK.pdf output pdf file with my results coptic.sty extension LaTeX package with some useful macros copto.tfm TeX metric file for font copto copti.tfm TeX metric file for font copti lcopcoptic.fd LaTeX font definition file copto.pfb PostScript font binary file for font copto copti.pfb PostScript font binary file for font copti copthyph.tex hyphenation patterns for the Coptic language PURPOSE This bundle of source METAFONT files, PostScript fonts and LaTeX files is an experimental work for typesetting in Coptic language. Some solutions and macros derive from Cristiano Pulone. INSTALLATION The installation process is a little hacker like, but whoever uses this package is a volunteer in experimenting it. Therefore s/he must be familiar with his/her TeX system installation and directory structure. I assume you are working with a modern installation and that it is compliant with the TeX Directory System (TDS). Independent from the platform and operating system you are using, you should have at least two more-or-less identical directory structures, one platform wide and one user dependent. Generally the system wide one is rooted in some place such as /user/share/texmf or C:\texmf; the user dependent structure should be rooted in ~/texmf or in C:\localtexmf. These roots are just examples; they may vary from installation to installation, but the important point is that there is at least two roots from which spring up the two trees of TeX directories. I'd suggest you to use the local/user tree. This structure very often does not contain all the branches and leaves of the system wide tree, so it may be necessary to add directories and subdirectories by hand simply by mimicking the system wide structure. In the following I use the UNIX syntax for directories and I assume that .../ stands for whatever precedes the following directory name in the particular directory tree of your choice. Put copthyph.tex in .../tex/generic/config and be sure to have in this directory also the file language.dat. Edit the latter file by adding this line: coptic copthyph.tex (I suggest to place it in alphabetical order) Put the *.mf files in .../fonts/source/local/coptic; put the *.tfm files in .../fonts/tfm/local/coptic; put the *.pfb files in .../fonts/type1/local/coptic; put the *.sty and *.fd files, testcop.tex and testcopOK.pdf in .../tex/latex/local/coptic; if you like the idea you can save this file README in .../doc/tex/latex/local/coptic. It might be a good idea, especially for keeping at hand the mappings and ligatures for typesetting Coptic text with a Latin keyboard. At this point refresh the file name data base; the system command might be texhash or you might need to click on a Option Wizard button depending on your installation. Refresh the psfonts.map file; for this task it's possible that yopu need to locate and configure an updmap.cfg file before recreating the psfonts.map file, but this depends on your installation. Before refreshing the psfonts.map file you should add the following two lines copti TeX-copti