eiad* -- iad's Computer Modern Irish Family of Founts ----------------------------------------------------- The package contains the following files: Leigh_me This file. eiad10.mf Regular 10 point. eiadbf10.mf Boldface 10 point. eireannach.mf Driver file. eira.mf Irish diacritics and macros. eirl.mf Irish lowercase letters. eiru.mf Irish uppercase letters. In both lower and upper case 32 letters are defined (18 `plain' ones, 5 long vowels and 9 aspirated consonants). The ligature `agus' is also made available. The remaining characters (digits, punctuation and accents) are inherited from the Computer Modern family of founts. You'll find that the file eiad10.mf, on which you'll have to run MetaFont in order to obtain the regular 10 point Irish fount, refers to a file called Fr10.mf, which is not included in the package. It will only take you a few seconds to make that file; it is obtained from cmr10.mf by removing everything up to `font_identifier:=CMR;' and the last line (`generate roman;'). The file Fbf10.mf, mentioned in eiadbf10.mf, is related in the same way to cmbx10.mf; and similarly you can make Irish founts of any other shapes and sizes. Within TeX the accented Irish letters are accessible as ligatures, in a manner consistent with the usage on Gaelic-L. A vowel followed by a slash yields a long vowel; a lowercase consonant followed by `h', or an uppercase consonant followed by either `H' or `h', yields an aspirated consonant. (The latter only works with those consonants which actually undergo aspiration; for such things as `n' with a dot, as found in some old texts, the standard TeXnique (in this case {\.n}) must be used.) The ligature `agus' is accessed as s` (`s'-backquote). Please send comments, complaints, compliments and postcards to: Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) * Centre for Cognitive Science, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK * Cowan House, Pollock Halls, 18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh EH16 5BD, UK