============================================================ The DictSym font and the LaTeX macro package dictsym.sty 2024-02-04 ============================================================ Walter Schmidt Keiran Harcombe kjh@harcombe.net This directory contains the "DictSym" Type1 font designed by Georg Verweyen and all files required to use it with LaTeX on the Un*x or PC platform. The font provides a number of symbols commonly used in dictionaries. The accompanying macro package, makes the symbols accessible as LaTeX commands. The below installation instructions assume a TDS-compliant TeX system, such as teTeX, MikTeX or VTeX/Free. Yet they may not exactly fit your particular TeX system; please, consult its documentation, too! The directory name "texmf" refers to the root directory of a TDS directory tree. In case your TeX systems has more than one such directory tree, its documentation should tell you where to put new files. Installing the Type1 font file ------------------------------ Copy the files dictsym.pfb and dictsym.pfm to the directory texmf/fonts/type1/public/dictsym of your TeX system. (The .pfm file is needed only for applications other than TeX.) Copy the file dictsym.afm to: texmf/fonts/afm/public/dictsym Create these directories, if they do not yet exist. Installing the TeX support files -------------------------------- Unpack the ZIP archive dictsym.zip in the texmf directory of your TeX system; thus, all files will be copied to the appropriate directories. 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 comprises several font map files for the DictSym font. You need to configure your TeX system so that these files are actually used. The required steps depend on the particular TeX system. Particular sets of instructions are provided below for the following systems: * teTeX * VTeX/Free With other TeX systems such as MikTeX, consult the related documentation how to install an additional font map file. The name of the map file to be used for the DictSym font is "dictsym.map". Two copies of this file reside in the directories texmf/dvips/config and texmf/fonts/map/dvips. Configuring teTeX ----------------- Additional font map files (here dictsym.map) are installed using the shell script "updmap". With teTeX-2.0 and later (or teTeX-beta as of June 2002 and later) execute the following commands: texhash updmap --enable Map dictsym.map With earlier versions of teTeX, consult its documentation about how to add new map files to the system. Configuring VTeX/Free (v8.44 and above) --------------------------------------- Make VTeX read the additional font map ("aliasing") file dictsym.ali. This is usually accomplished by putting an appropriate record ito each of the configuration files texmf/vtex/config/pdf.fm and texmf/vtex/config/ps.fm The name "dictsym.ali" is to be added to the TYPE1 section of the above-mentioned files: TYPE1 { ... dictsym.ali } Using the DictSym font with LaTeX --------------------------------- See the file dictsym.pdf. (Unpacking of the archive, as described above, creates a further copy of this file in the the directory texmf/doc/latex/dictsym of your TeX system.) Legal notice ------------ The font "DictSym" is made up from the files dictsym.pfb, dictsym.afm and dictsym.pfm These files are subject to the following conditions of use and distribution: Copyright (c) 2004 Georg Verweyen 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 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. This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". This Current Maintainer of this work is Keiran Harcombe" The "dictsym" macro package and the related documentation file dictsym.tex are subject to the following conditions of use and distribution: Copyright (c) 2004 Walter Schmidt 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 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. This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". This Current Maintainer of this work is Keiran Harcombe Credits ------- Special thanks to Rolf Niepraschk for his help with creating and testing the font. == finis