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The trajan bundle provides fonts based on the capitals carved on the Trajan column in Rome in 114 AD. Many typographers think these rank first among the Roman's artistic legacy. The font is uppercase letters together with punctuation and some analphabetics; no lowercase or digits. Changes in version 1.1 (2005/06/29) o Font supplied as Postscript Type1 as well as METAFONT Changes in version 1.0 (1999/04/02) o First public release ------------------------------------------------------------------ Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press) herries dot press at earthlink dot net Copyright 1999--2005 Peter R. Wilson This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the Latex Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of the license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later. This work has the LPPL maintenance status "author-maintained". This work consists of the files: README (this file) trajan.dtx trajan.ins trajan.pdf and the derived files trajan.sty t1trjn.fd trajan.map trjnr10.mf trjnsl10.mf trjnlig.mf trjnpunct.mf trjnromanp.mf trjnromanu.mf trjntitle.mf ------------------------------------------------------------------ The distribution consists of the following files: README (this file) trajan.dtx trajan.ins trajan.pdf (user manual) trytrajan.tex (example usage) trytrajan.pdf trjnr10.afm trjnr10.pfb trjnr10.tfm trjnsl10.afm trjnsl10.pfb trjnsl10.tfm To install the bundle: o If you want MetaFont sources uncomment the appropriate lines in trajan.ins. o run: latex trajan.ins, which will generate: trajan.sty *.fd files trajan.map and possibly several *.mf files o Move *.sty and *.fd files to a location where LaTeX will find them e.g., .../texmf-local/tex/latex/trajan o Move *.afm, *.pfb and *.tfm files to where LaTeX looks for font information e.g., .../texmf-var/fonts/afm/public/trajan/*.afm .../texmf-var/fonts/type1/public/trajan/*.pfb .../texmf-var/fonts/tfm/public/trajan/*.tfm o Add the *.map information to the dvips/pdftex font maps If you want the MetaFont version as well: o Move the *.mf files to, e.g., .../texmf-var/fonts/source/public/trajan o Add a line like the following to the (texmf/fontname/)special.map file: trjn10.mf public trajan trjnsl10.mf public trajan o Refresh the database (for more information on the above see the FAQ). o run: (pdf)latex trytrajan for a test of the font If you want a full manual with all the MetaFont and LaTeX code and commentry, comment out the \OnlyDescription line in trajan.dtx. o run: (pdf)latex trajan.dtx o (for an index run: makeindex -s gind.ist *.idx) o run: (pdf)latex *.dtx o Print *.(pdf|dvi) for a hardcopy of the package manual 2005/06/29 Peter Wilson herries dot press at earthlink dot net
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trajan – Fonts from the Trajan column in Rome
Provides fonts (both as METAFONT source and in Adobe Type 1 format) based on the capitals carved on the Trajan column in Rome in 114 AD, together with macros to access the fonts.
Many typographers think these rank first among the Roman’s artistic legacy. The font is uppercase letters together with some punctuation and analphabetics; no lowercase or digits.
Package | trajan |
Version | 1.1 |
Licenses | The LaTeX Project Public License |
Copyright | 1999–2005 Peter R. Wilson |
Maintainer | Peter R. Wilson |
Contained in | TeX Live as trajan MiKTeX as trajan |
Topics | Archaic Font Font Font Type1 MF Font |