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Mxedruli, Xucuri  - The Georgian Alphabets                  24th July 1998

Designed and (c) by Johannes Heinecke
                    Computerlinguistik
                    Institut f"ur deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
                    Philosophische Fakult"at II
                    Humboldt  Universit"at zu Berlin
                    J"agerstr. 10/11
                    10099 Berlin
                    <heinecke@compling.hu-berlin.de>

Please send any improvements, corrections, suggestions, enhancements etc
to the Author!
I would also very grateful, if you could send me text examples
you created with these fonts, in order to replace the simple
examples in the documentation by them.
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Version 3.2

The following files are included to use Mxedruli within LaTeX:
(Some files have not been changed with this version, therefore
they still use a version number prior to 3.2)

mf/mxed10.mf          - Driver for the 10pt normal 
mf/mxedbf10.mf        - Driver for the 10pt bold
mf/mxedc10.mf         - Driver for the 10pt capital
mf/mxedi10.mf         - Driver for the 10pt italics
mf/mxed.mf            - Main Driver, calls character definition files
mf/mxedbase.mf        - Base file
mf/mxedfont.mf        - Definition of mxedruli letters
mf/mxedcaps.mf        - Definition of mxedruli ``capital'' letters
mf/mxedp.mf           - Punctuation (very simple)
mf/mxedd.mf           - Digits (very simple too, if cmbase is used the 
                        cm-digits will be used instead of these.
mf/mxedacc.mf         - Accents for other Kartvelian languages (Svan).
mf/xuc.mf             - The standard generation file for METAFONT.
mf/xuc10.mf           - Driver file for Xucuri.
mf/xucbase.mf         - METAFONT macros etc.
mf/xucfont.mf         - Xucuri majuscules.
mf/xucd.mf            - Digits (can be replaced by Computer Modern digits)
mf/xucl.mf            - Xucuri minuscules.
mf/xucp.mf]           - Xucuri Punctuation 
mxeddoc.ps 	      - Documentation
vepxis.tex            - A short sample file
alphabets.tex         - An example showing both Xucuri and Mxedruli
ossetic.tex           - A short example of Ossetic text, written in
                        Mxedruli.
inputs/mxedruli.sty   - LaTeX Style file, to hook mxedruli to LaTeX 
                        size change commands
inputs/Umxed.fd       - Font definition file for use with NFSS2
inputs/xucuri.sty     - \LaTeX Style File.
inputs/Uxuc.fd        - Font definition file for use with NFSS2.



How to create the .gf/.pk files?
- Run METAFONT (and GFtoPK) on mxed10.mf and mxedbf10.mf

What's more to say?
- The punctuation is very simple, and only
  includes . , : ; - -- --- ! ? ( ) \ / [ ] =

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History:

24th July 1998: Version 3.2
    Added both Xucuri variants

15th July 1996: Version 2.4
    Added italics, minor corrections

20th May 1996: Version 2.3
    Added new letter: Glottal Stop (reverse `q')

5th March 1996: Version 2.2
    Added two more letters: `qhar' and `ee'

26th June 1995: Version 2.1
    Minor corrections (not distributed via CTAN)

16th June 1995: Version 2.0
    `Capital' fonts included
    Introduced some letters for Old Georgian and Ossetian resp.
    !! The letter .+c is now at position oct(014), not at
       postion oct(171) where it used to be. This was necessary
       as a letter being transcribed by "y" (oct(171)) was introduced.

8th August 1994: Version 1.0
    Some Corrections on too mishaped letters.
    Introduced some letters for Old Georgian.

September 1993:
    First Release.