New CTAN package: tolkienfonts

the upload daemon, here, claims: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: tolkienfonts > Author's name: Ariel Barton > Location on CTAN: fonts/ > Summary description: Virtual fonts for writing easily with Tolkien's tengwar and cirth scripts > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The virtual fonts in this package allow the user to easily write > English, Quenya and Sindarin in several modes with J.R.R. Tolkien's > tengwar, cirth, sarati and valmaric scripts, using freely available > TrueType fonts found on the internet. > > Support is at very nearly the highest possible level; the point of > this package was to avoid bizarre spellings or lots of special > commands. > > Fonts supported are Tengwar Annatar, Cirth Erebor, Sarati and Valmaric > Eldamar, and (with a little more work) Tengwar Parmaite, Eldamar, > Noldor, Quenya and Sindarin. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and made an entry in the ctan catalogue. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/tolkienfonts.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ the catalogue entry won't, of course, appear on the web until after the processing job, which is some time after i've gone to bed... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team