%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% This is the file readme, part of the VFinst package %% (version 1.00, August, 1998) for PostScript Type1 font %% installation. (Author: Alan Hoenig, ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu) %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If you've ever wanted to set up outline fonts for use by \TeX\ or \LaTeX, VFinst may be of use to you. At the end of the VFinst process, you'll be able to typeset with your new fonts, confident that accents, ligatures, and the like will appear in your document with the usual \TeX\ conventions. Here are the fonts you get at the end of the process. * For every upright font: you get the upright font, the small caps font, an oblique font, and an underline font. * For every italic font, you get the italic font, a small caps italic, an unslanted italic, and an underline font. * Additional fonts: You will also get titling (display) fonts, both upright and italic, and a swash italic font, if the appropriate raw fonts were present. VFinst takes care to use expert fonts to build the small caps fonts, if these raw fonts are present. You also get test files for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX), to both test the fonts and to provide examples of how to declare and use each of the fonts in a TeX document. Some Technical Notes: At the end of the VFinst process, you get all .vf and .tfm files for all fonts, which have been renamed for you according to the fontname2.1 conventions. All oblique and italic fonts use the true italic angle for the font. The dvips map file psfonts.map will have been updated for you. All fonts will have been placed in the proper area on your hard disk. You may choose original TeX (ot1) or Cork (t1) encodings for your fonts, which can be installed according to the TDS (TeX Directory Structure) or `traditional' standard. All raw fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding. All this and more is expanded upon in the documentation file vfinst.tex. PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY FONT INSTALLATIONS. Please feel free to get in touch with me; my email is ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu. All comments, bugs, suggestions for improvement, and criticism cheerfully accepted. Alan Hoenig ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu August 1998