Fonts for Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform (1998-2003) version 001.002 (July 20, 2003) Karel Piska [P\'{\i}\v{s}ka], Prague (CZ) E-mail: piska@fzu.cz ------------------- LICENSE Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Karel Piska This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. As a special exception, permission is granted to include these font programs in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that contains text to be displayed or printed using these fonts, regardless of the conditions or license applying to the document itself. This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ------------------- A SHORT HISTORY 1998 METAFONT version of Syllabary A 1999 PostScript Type 1 fonts were created in version 001.000, cover Akkadian [Labat], Ugaritic, Old Persian, and only parts of other cuneiform scripts 2001 version 001.001 for Akkadian: revised and completed (except 3 signs); Akkadian sign list and sign index with sign numbers [Labat], encoding, transliteration and ASCII-names; simple LaTeX support revised and corrected 2003 version 001.002 for Akkadian: some corrections - "setcurrentpoint" commands changed to usual "rmoveto"; couple of glyphs modified; (re)construction of the Web page started ------------------- FILES METAFONT version of Syllabary A (see cunmf.zip) ................. Type 1 version of Akkadian (see naaktds.zip): fonts/type1/public/cuneiform/*.pfb, fonts/afm/public/cuneiform/*.afm, fonts/tfm/public/cuneiform/*.tfm: Akkadian Part A, PART B, PART C Form A naakaa naakab naakac Form B naakba naakbb naakbc Form C naakca naakcb naakcc tex/latex/cuneiform/*.sty: akkadian,akktrans,akktrref,akknum,akkenc,scripts dvips/cuneiform/,pdftex/cuneiform/: neoass.map doc/cuneiform/: akksignc.tex,akkixref.tex akksignc.pdf,akkixref.pdf,na80pt.pdf ------------------- Installation (Knowledge of installation and configuration in your TeX system is expected.) A. Unzip and copy all the files above (from the ZIP in TDS form) into your texmf directory (or texmf-local or texmf-var), append "neoass.map" data according to your configuration files for dvips and/or pdftex, upgrade your corresponding "ls-R" database file. All these steps depend on your TeX installation or B. Unzip all the files above (from the ZIP in one level form) and then copy them into the current directory; of course you must inform dvips, pdftex,... where to find the fonts ------------------- LaTeX support 1. \usepackage{akkadian} introduces the definitions of the font form, font size and sign names 2. \renewcommand\NAfont{\NAfontC{10}} redefines the font form (\NAfontC,\NAfontA,\NAfontB) and the font size (the unit is 1pt); default value is "\NAfontC{10}", i.e. the font form "C" at 10pt is chosen 3. {\AKK\DETd\er\kal\la} example of the sequence of Akkadian signs: \AKK begins the group followed by the list of ASCII-names, current \NAfont is used 4.a) Each sign may be defined by the ASCII-name preceded by "\" (backslash). Available names can be found in the Akkadian Sign Index (sorted by transliteration names) or by the Akkadian Sign List (ordered according [Labat]), e.g. {\AKK\a} % for the current \NAfont the actual font and code for Akkadian sign "a" % is assigned automatically b) Sign may be also defined directly by the font name and the glyph code, e.g. \font\akk=naakcc at 12pt {\akk\char67}% sign "a" is coded by 67 in the font naakcc % the first "c" denotes the form "C", the second "c" means the 3rd part ------------------- THIS TEXT IS UNDER (SLOW) CONSTRUCTION Last change: 12 August 2003