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(README changed 09/06/99; conditions relaxed) 28/06/91 As a concession to those who for some reason don't have Metafont, the following files are now included: teng10.tfm and cirth.tfm (the font metric files), and {teng10,cirth}.pk{300,360} (the pk files generated with mode imagen (i.e. Laserwriter) at normal size and at magstep 1). (README changed 13/06/90; conditions relaxed) *** Important Note *** These files are copyright (c) 1987 J.C. Bradfield. They are distributed on the following conditions: (a) You may use the source and generated fonts for any purpose, and may distribute the files, provided that all files including this copyright notice remain intact. (b) You may make modifications for your own use. You may distribute modified versions of these files PROVIDED that this copyright notice remains intact AND that you include the original files clearly labelled as such. If you produce modifications that seem useful, you are asked to send them to me, so that they can be incorporated into the master files. There are still things I would like to do with these fonts, in particular, to provide virtual fonts for Quenya etc. If you have suggestions or comments, please contact me. ****************************************** The only file that needs to be input is teng10.mf ; all the other files are called by it. Hence, on a Unix system, the following should generate a tengwar font at magnification \magstep1 for the Apple Laserwriter: mf '\mode:=imagen; mag := magstep1; input teng10' If you have difficulties, contact your local Metafont guru in the first instance. ***************************************** The cirth font is rather hastily put together, and is not properly organized as yet. It is therefore distributed as a single stand-alone file, so again all you have to do is: mf '\mode:=imagen; mag := magstep1; input cirth' ***************************************** The file teng.tex contains the macros I use for setting tenwar when using TeX. I'm afraid they're not commented---tough! The general idea is that the ^ character is used to put a vowel over its consonant, so for example to print Ai! laurie lantar lassi s\'urinen in tengwar, I would type {\quenya ^Ia l^Ua^ri^@e ^la^DaR ^la^Zi s^*u^ri^nen} You'll have to note which ASCII character corresponds to which tengwa for yourself; I don't have a table prepared. A point to watch out for is that in Quenya, 'v' usually transcribes vilya, which is represented by the ASCII character w ; v represents the tengwa amba (i.e. the encoding is basically set up for use with English). ***************************************** Contacting me: I can be contacted by post at: J.C. Bradfield Dept of Computer Science The King's Buildings Mayfield Road EDINBURGH U.K. EH9 3JZ I can be contacted by electronic mail as: jcb@dcs.ed.ac.uk (in Internet domain ordering) If that doesn't work, you should kick your postmaster, and then get him/her to tell you how to reach that address. (Well, maybe you kick after you get the info!) Happy typesetting, Julian Bradfield.
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elvish – Fonts for typesetting Tolkien Elvish scripts
The bundle provides fonts for Cirth (cirth.mf, etc.) and for Tengwar (teng10.mf). The Tengwar fonts are supported by macros in teng.tex, or by the (better documented) tengtex package.
Package | elvish |
Licenses | Free license not otherwise listed |
Copyright | 1987 J.C. Bradfield |
Maintainer | Julian Bradfield |
Contained in | TeX Live as elvish MiKTeX as elvish |
Topics | Invented Font Font MF Font |
See also | tengwar |