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Package archaic:
A collection of archaic fonts.

The collection contains fonts to represent Aramaic, Cypriot, Etruscan, Greek of the 6th and 4th centuries BCE, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Linear A, Linear B, Nabatean old Persian, the Phaistos disc, Phoenician, proto-Semitic, runic, South Arabian Ugaritic and Viking scripts.

The bundle also includes a small font for use in phonetic transcription of the archaic writings. The bundle's own directory includes a font installation map file for the whole collection.

Getting it

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Distribution Package name
MiKTeX archaic
TeX Live archaic

You can also visit archaic's CTAN directory to browse the source or download the material for installation by hand.

More

Documentation on CTAN
A description of Peter Wilson's contribution
Collection of font samples
Documentation off CTAN -none known-
Maintainers
Apostolos Syropoulos
Uwe Zimmermann
Peter R. Wilson
Version -not known-
License LaTeX Project Public License
Related packages -none recorded-
Keywords
fonts, mathematics
Characterizations
primary:
Fonts > Text body fonts

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