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diff --git a/font/00README b/font/00README index 8742cef..6b639f7 100644 --- a/font/00README +++ b/font/00README @@ -7,15 +7,19 @@ of all characters. The files are exactly as distributed publicly by Adobe Systems except that erroneous ligature information has been removed from the four Courier font files. -Jeffrey H. Kingston -3 July 1994 +In addition, for every Adobe Systems font file, (call it FF) there is +a companion file FF+ containing supplementary character definitions and +composite character definitions sufficient to support Latin2 without any +need to obtain Latin2 fonts. These files follow a format established +by Version 3.21 of Lout, and were supplied by Jaroslav Serdula. +Lout is informed of the existence of these files by means of a database +of @FontDef symbols. Two such are supplied with Lout, in directory +$(LOUTLIB)/data: fontdefs.ld and latin2.ld. -All file names have now been reduced to a maximum of 8 characters, -for portability to the DOS operating system. Non-Latin1 fonts are -no longer distributed with the basic Lout distribution. +All file names were previously reduced to a maximum of 8 characters, +for portability to the DOS operating system. Now some of the FF+ +files have nine characters again. Let me know if this is a problem. Jeffrey H. Kingston -9 June 1995 -3 April 1996 -12 September 1999 +10 May 2000 |