hamnosys - Using HamNoSys in TeX

This is the TeX package hamnosys, which makes the HamNoSys font available in TeX documents. The Hamburg Notation System, HamNoSys for short, is a system for the phonetic transcription of signed languages.

Requirements

The hamnosys package requires XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. It has been tested on TeX Live 2021.

Installation

If your TeX distribution does not contain the package, you can install it manually by copying the files hamnosys.sty and HamNoSysUnicode.ttf from this repository. To install it locally for a single project, copy the files into the root directory of your TeX project. To install it globally, copy the files into a hamnosys/ subdirectory in the appropriate location in your TeX installation. To generate the documentation, compile hamnosys.dtx using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

To use HamNoSys in other parts of your operating system and for a wider range of input methods, see the HamNoSys Software Package.

Usage

The package provides three methods of entering HamNoSys symbols:

1. Direct input of HamNoSys symbols as Unicode characters. As HamNoSys symbols can only be displayed by the HamNoSys font, you must either
   1. explicitly switch fonts using \texthamnosys{} or \hamnosysfont, or
   2. use the autofont package option (XeTeX only).
2. Listing HamNoSys symbol names inside the command \hamnosys{}.
3. Using the commands that have been defined for each individual HamNoSys symbol.

For more details, read hamnosys.pdf (English) or project note AP04-2021-02 of the DGS corpus project (English and German).

Licence & Copyright

Copyright (C) 1986-2022 Universität Hamburg

Created by Marc Schulder, Thomas Hanke

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained'. The Current Maintainer of this work is Marc Schulder.

This work consists of the files hamnosys.dtx, hamnosys.ins, HamNoSysUnicode.ttf, README.md and the derived files hamnosys.sty, hamnosys.pdf and hamnosys.bib.