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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{aurical}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\Fontauri\fontsize{40pt}{40pt}\selectfont
Auriocus Kalligraphicus \\
\fontsize{30pt}{30pt}\selectfont %
\textemdash{} a decorative font in T1 encoding \textemdash
\end{center}

This package implements a font I created for fun in April 2004. In fact I needed an absolutely free
font that I could change (i.e. add all accent marks necessary to write Czech) and distribute. The
font has been created in the following manner:

First, I drew all characters on paper with a calligraphic pen. These images have been scanned as a
truecolor bitmap using sane. The  image has been further processed with GIMP to extract the
foreground characters. The image has then been broken up into its individual characters, which hav
been named according to their unicode value like \emph{uni0074.png}. 

These images can be imported to fontforge\footnote{a very good, free font editor, formerly known as
pfaedit}. Then I ran ``Autotrace'' from fontforge's menu, which started
Peter Selingers potrace on the scanned images to produce the first, raw outlines. Potrace does a
very good job, so despite the bad quality of the scanned images the first version of the font has
been done within a few hours. 

\Fontauri\fontsize{14pt}{14pt}\selectfont  Despite the fact, that the font is meant to be
decorative, it is quite good readable even for longer texts, though not at small pointsizes (I
recommend a minimum of 12pt). 

\normalfont\normalsize Usage is very simple: Just include \verb!\usepackage{aurical}! into the
preamble of your document, then you can use \verb!\Fontauri!\Fontauri{} to switch to the calligraphic
font and \normalfont\verb!\normalfont! to switch back. Of course the mapfile and the fontfiles need
to be installed in the usual places, so that \TeX can find them. Alternatively you can copy all of
the files into the same directory where your document is, and \verb!dvips! it with the command\\
\texttt{dvips -u+./aurical.map yourdocument.dvi}\\

Some characters are still missing, because I have no clue what they should look like, or just
because I was too lazy to implement them. These are: compwordmark, perthousandzero,  @, Eng, Thorn,
eth, thorn. The numbers should look like old style figures, the drawback is that they don't look good
in calculations: \Fontauri 130-927=1057 \normalfont

And now enjoy the font!

\hfill{\Fontauri\fontsize{20pt}{20pt}\selectfont Christian Gollwitzer (Auriocus)}



\end{document}