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               "FPL Neu" font pack for LaTeX
                Version 0.9 as of 2005-07-22
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        Ralf Stubner  ralf.stubner at physik.uni-erlangen.de
        Walter Schmidt                w.a.schmidt at gmx.net
        
                                               
This collection comprises the "FPL Neu" PostScript Type1
fonts and the support files required to use them with LaTeX
on the Un*x or PC platform.

The four fonts

/FontName           filemane
  --------------------------------
  FPLNeu-Roman        fp9r8a.pfb
  FPLNeu-Italic       fp9ri8a.pfb
  FPLNeu-Bold         fp9b8a.pfb
  FPLNeu-BoldItalic   fp9bi8a.pfb

constitute a comprehensive re-implementation of the Palatino
typeface family, provding the full T1 character set and a
subset of TS1.   Each font includes both lining and oldstyle
digits, and the Roman cut comprises also real smallcaps.

The fonts are based on URW Palladio L and on Diego Puga's
Pazo math fonts.  Additional and enhanced glyphs were
designed by Ralf Stubner.

Notice that installing this distribution does _not_ break
PSNFSS, i.e., the existing support files for using Adobe
Palatino (or URW Palladio, respectively).  FPL Neu is a font
family of its own, which can be installed and used beside
Palatino/Palladio.

ChangeLog
---------
2005-07-22

Basically changed glyph names, to comply with the "Adobe
  Glyph List For New Fonts", and to support the text tools
  of the Adobe Reader as far as possible.  
  
  Improved at-sign and paragraph sign, following the advice
  of H. Zapf; previous paragraph sign is still available as
  paragraph.alt1 (mapped to \textpilcrow).  Improved shape
  of upright mu.
  
  Various new glyphs (partially not yet usable from within
  LaTeX, however):  pi, uni301A, uni301B, Eng, eng,
  kgreenlandic, longs, Oogonek, oogonek, f_k, f_j
   
  Various kerning pairs added or improved.  (Only in the 
  TeX metrics; not yet in the AFMs.)

2005-02-09

The new font family name "FPL Neu" is now reflected in the
  fonts.  Map files fp9.map[ali] addapted accordingly.
  
  New kerning pair emdash-e for the regular font.  
  (So far, only in the TFM.)

2005-02-07

The font family has been renamed from "FPL" to "FPL Neu",
  with the fontname code being "p9" (fplneu) now.  As a
  result, all file names and directory names have changed.
  
  Names of encoding files changed from "urw2*.enc" to
  "agl*.enc."; internal names of the encoding vectors
  changed accordingly.
  
  Slightly fixed kerning values after overhanging letters.
  
  Matching kerning data in the TFM, AFM and PFM files.
  
  PFM files should be usable.
  
  New glyphs circle, Pcircle, dblverticalbar.
  
  Glyphs copyright and registered are now based on the
  letters C and R of the FPL typeface, rather than on
  neutral shapes.
  
  Glyph .notdef removed.
  
  The width of ordmasculine in the Bold font now matches the
  other fonts; this results in small changes to the glyph
  numero, too.
  
  Slightly changed bounding boxes of [Tt]cedilla in the 
  Bold font.
  
  Fixed centigrade in FPL Roman

2005-01-18

First public release

Installation paths
------------------
The files of your TeX system are arranged in one or more
tree structures, the so-called "texmf trees".  The names and
paths of the particular root directories of these trees vary
between different TeX systems.  In the following
instructions the install paths are indicated in a form such
as, for instance:

<texmf>/fonts/type1/...

<texmf> stands for the the actual name of the root directory
of the texmf tree, where you want to install the files:

teTeX and MikTeX require additional files to be installed in
a particular "local" tree (rather than in the one where the
default components of the TeX system reside).  Its path must
either be indicated in the documentation of the TeX system
or you should have defined it yourself upon installation.
With MikTeX, for instance, the root directory of the "local"
texmf tree is usually "c:\localtexmf", so you would in fact
have to substitute

c:\localtexmf\fonts\type1\...

for the path name in the above example.

VTeX/Free, in contrast, has only one single texmf tree,
whose root directory is normally "/usr/local/vtex/texmf" (on
Linux) or "c:\texmf" (on OS/2).

Note that paths are indicated in "Unix notation" (i.e.,
using slashes as directory separators), unless they are
specific for Win or OS/2.

If you have installed the very first release
--------------------------------------------
...as of 2005-01-18, you MUST delete it entirely, before
installing the present one.  Rationale:  File and directory
names have changed.

Delete the following directories including their contents:
  
  <texmf>/fonts/type1/public/fpl
  <texmf>/fonts/afm/public/fpl
  <texmf>/fonts/tfm/public/fpl
  <texmf>/tex/latex/fpl
  <texmf>/doc/fonts/fpl
  <texmf>/fonts/map/dvips/fpl
  <texmf>/fonts/enc/dvips/fpl
  
Remove also the following files:
  
  <texmf>/dvips/config/fpl.map
  <texmf>/font/map/vtex/fpl.map
  
and any copies of the files urw2*.enc, which you have
possibly created in other directories.

Finally, remove the record for the font mapping file 
fpl.[map|ali] from the configuration of your TeX system.

Installing 
----------
Unpack the ZIP archives

fp9-fonts.zip 
and
    fp9.zip 
      
in the directory <texmf> of your TeX system.

On teTeX < 3.x, create a new directory <texmf>/dvips/fp9 and
move all files, that were installed in the directory
<texmf>/fonts/enc/dvips/fp9, to the new directory:

cd <texmf>
  mkdir dvips/fp9
  mv fonts/enc/dvips/fp9/* dvips/fp9

On VTeX/Free, move all files from
<texmf>/fonts/enc/dvips/fp9 to <texmf>/fonts/enc/dvips:
 
  cd <texmf>
  mv fonts/enc/dvips/fp9/* fonts/enc/dvips

Rationale:  teTeX < 3.x and VTeX/Free do not yet comply with
the latest TDS specifications, as far as the location of
encoding files is concerned.

Updating the filename database
------------------------------
Many TeX systems require manual updating of a "filename
database" after adding of new files.  Please, consult the
documentation of your TeX system!

Configuring your TeX system
---------------------------
The present distribution includes several font map files for
the FPL Neu fonts.  You need to configure your TeX system so
that an appropriate file will be used in fact.  The required
steps depend on the particular TeX system.  Particular sets
of instructions are provided below for the following
systems:

* teTeX 2.0 and later
  * MikTeX 2.4 and later
  * VTeX/Free 8 and later

* Configuring teTeX:
Use the shell script "updmap" to add the font map file named
"fp9.map" to the configuration.  See the documentation of
your particular teTeX version how to use the script.  With
teTeX 2.0 and above, execute the following commands:

texhash
  updmap --enable Map fp9.map

(Note that the font map file has changed, as compared with
the the 2005-02-07 release.  Thus, you must -- at least --
execute "updmap" once again, when updating.)
  
* Configuring MikTeX 2.4+
Edit the file <texmf>\miktex\config\updmap.cfg.  (In case it
does not yet exist, create it as a new file.)  Add the line

Map fp9.map

and save the file; then execute the following commands
in a command line window ("DOS shell"):

initexmf -u
  updmap

* Configuring VTeX/Free:
Make VTeX read the additional font map ("aliasing") file
fp9.ali.  This is usually accomplished by putting a record
for this file into each of the configuration files

<texmf>/vtex/config/pdf.fm
and
  <texmf>/vtex/config/ps.fm

"fpl.ali" is to be added to the TYPE1 section of the
above-mentioned files:

TYPE1 {
    ...
    fp9.ali
    }

You need_not_ repeat this step when updating from the
previous release.

Copy all .enc files from <texmf>/fonts/enc/dvips/fp9/ to the
directory <texmf>/fonts/enc/dvips/.  (Rationale:  VTeX/Free
does not fully implement the current TDS specifications and
does not search recirsively below  .../enc/dvips.)  
NB:  This step _must_ be repeated when updating from the
previous release!

Using the FPL Neu fonts with LaTeX
----------------------------------
See the file fplneu.txt, which resides in the directory
<texmf>/doc/fonts/fplneu.

Using the Fonts with other applications than TeX
------------------------------------------------
Feel free to use the fonts also with applications other than
TeX!  The related PFM files are provided for this purpose
and shoukld have been installed in the same directory as the
PFBs, i.e., fonts/type1/public/fplneu.

Bugs and problems
-----------------
The fonts require a recent version of dvips; version 5.83 is
known to fail.

For the time being, the kerning tables cover special
characters and typical letter pairs of the following
languages only:  English, German, and French.  Since a lot
of effort was put into making decent-looking Polish
characters, I have also tried to provide reasonable kerning
data for them, but I'm not familiar with this language...

Smallcaps and oldstyle digits in the Type1 fonts are
accessible via reencoding only.  Thus, they are not
immediately usable with non-TeX applications.

Bad rendering of the top strokes of the letters D and T has
been observed on a laser printer HP Laserjet 2200.  This
occurs apparently due to bad hinting.

Credits
-------
We express our thanks to Prof. Hermann Zapf for his help
and his valuable advice, and to the German TeX user group
DANTE e.V., who has granted support to the FPL Neu project.

Legal notice
------------
The FPL Neu fonts are subject to the GNU Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt>.

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.

The TeX support files in the archive fp9.zip are

These files 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 this license is in
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or
later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version
2003/12/01 or later.

| FOR THE TIME BEING, YOU ARE KINDLY ASKED _NOT_ TO
| REDISTRIBUTE THE FONTS AND THE RELATED TEX SUPPORT FILES,
| BECAUSE THEY ARE UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND LIKELY TO CHANGE.

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