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University of the Aegean         Department of Mathematics
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                 The Kerkis Font Family
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The kerkis Font Family (the name is after the tallest mountain
of the Aegean Sea located on the island of Samos) is the first
font in Type1 format with full support for LaTeX and Polytonic Greek!

It is an extension of the Bookman Old Style fonts. Additional characters
are provided not only for Greek but for latin too (like many standard
ligatures missing for URWBookman, true Small Caps etc).

Polytonic Greek is supported only for the Roman font for now. We have plans
though to extend it to the rest shapes/series.

Since Greek support uses METAFONT fonts kerkis is the only solution
for the time for creating nice looking pdf files (through pdflatex) 
that contain Greek.

A new feature is the use of double forms for several letters 
according to the hellenic typographic tradition that now tends to be lost. 
In particular the letters beta, zeta, theta, rho and phi have an initial 
and a different middle-word form. 

Another different form for epsilon was planned (for the combinations 
with iota) but it was abandoned as it seemed that we need a triple 
ligature to cover the case for the epsilon-iota-tonos; a feature not 
supported in the virtual fonts. We will try this though maybe a 
different way if we can and of course we are open to suggestions and ideas. 

Old style numbers (known as lower case numbers as well) are included 
in the small caps font. Thus they are accessible with the \textsc command. 

The fonts contain a full set of latin characters with accents that 
support properly all latin-based languages (common like German, French etc 
and less common like Icelandic). Special ligatures for "northern" 
languages like ij and fj etc (try the word fiji or fjord) are also 
included and tested to work. 

All math letters come from this font family when one calls the kmath.sty file.

The Copyright of the fonts belongs to the The Department of Mathematics 
of the University of the Aegean, Karlobasi, Samos, Greece. 

If you want to use this font family in commercial work (like in books) 
you *must* include in the Copyright section the fact that you are 
using "kerkis (C) Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean" 
(the word "Aegean" in LaTeX should be written as "\AE g\ae an"). 

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Installation 
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1. Put the contents of the Type1/ subdirectory of the package in 
texmf/fonts/type1/kerkis/

2. Put the contents of the afm/ subdirectory of the package in 
texmf/fonts/afm/kerkis/ 

3. Put the contents of the tfm/ subdirectory of the package in 
texmf/fonts/tfm/kerkis/

4. Put the contents of the vf/ subdirectory of the package in 
texmf/fonts/vf/kerkis/

5. Put the *.enc files of the subdirectory dvips/ in texmf/dvips/base/

6. Copy the contents of the file psfonts.map of the subdirectory dvips/ 
in your system psfonts.map file usually in texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map 
(and in the psfonts.map of the pdftex distribution if you want to
have them available for pdflatex).

7. Put the files from the tex/ subdirectory in texmf/tex/generic/babel/

8. Now run texhash on Unix and Refresh Filename Database for MikTeX. 
You are ready to use the fonts now. Just note the following: 

1. Load the kerkis.sty package after you load the inputenc package 
with the iso-8859-7 option (if you use Greek).

2. The -j option of dvips (which is usually the default) does not work 
properly. Either turn it off by issuing dvips -j0 file.dvi or use the 
bitmap generation utility gfstopk by issuing dvips -V file.dvi 
This is a bug in the fonts or the dvips driver but we can not fix it. 
Any help is welcomed. The -j option stands for partial download of the
font in the ps file according to the real needs of the dvi file for glyphs.

For any suggestions, comments or bug reports please write to atsol@aegean.gr 



Thanks are due to Pablo Rodriguez for testing this version.


Antonis Tsolomitis
University of the Aegean
Department of Mathematics
83200 Karlobasi, Samos
GREECE
atsol@aegean.gr
