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                  LucidaSO font pack as of 2000-12-09
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These are supplementary files needed for using the Lucida Type1 fonts
with LaTeX.

Lucida Type1 fonts (total 32 type1 fonts) are freely available as part
of StarOffice 5.2 distribution from http://www.sun.com/staroffice/
Due to legal reasons, they are _not_ distributed here.

The installation script, the metrics, virtual fonts and fd files were
provided by Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>; the material was adapted
to VTeX/Free by Walter Schmidt <was@VR-Web.de>.

There are 3 font families: LucidaBright, LucidaSans, LucidaType:

                   family   series   shape(s)
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Lucida Bright      hlh      m, b     n, it, sl, sc, ui
Lucida Sans        hls      m, b     n, sl, sc
Lucida Typewriter  hlct     m, b     n, sl, sc

We made support for the following TeX font encodings: T1, TS1, OT1, T2A
(Cyrillic).  Only LucidaSans and LucidaType families contain Cyrillic
fonts.  There are in total 70 font shapes.

Virtual fonts were made using fontinst v1.914.

The type1 fonts come in 3 encodings:  windows cp1250, cp1252, and
cp1251.  teTeX contains Y&Y's metrics and VFs for lucida fonts, but
those fonts are named differently, and VFs are based on 8r-encoded raw
fonts constructing a number of accented glyphs.  In the LucidaSO
package, we do not use 8r-encoded raw fonts, but instead take most of
accented glyphs directly from type1 fonts (encoded in cp1250 and
cp1252).  There are some differences in supported font shapes (Y&Y's
font set is of course more complete, but on the other hand we created
e.g. unslanted italic fonts which were absent in Y&Y's fonts, etc.)

So, teTeX's TFMs and VFs for lucida could not be used directly with
lucida fonts from SO; that is the point of creating the LucidaSO
package.


Obtaining the Type1 fonts
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1) Get and install StarOffice 5.2 for Linux, or find a PC where it is
   already installed.

2) Edit the shell script lucidaso.sh, so that $SO_HOME reflects the root
   directory of your StarOffice.

3) Run the shell script; this will create an archive file
   lucidaso-type1-5.2.tar.gz.  This archive contains all LucidaSO fonts,
   properly renamed and arranged for use with TeX then.

For further installation instructions, please read:
README-teTeX  if you are a teTeX user
README-VTeX   if you are a VTeX/Free user

Look into the directory texmf/doc/latex/lucidaso/ for documentation
and/or examples (I'm sorry, there isn't much documentation yet).


DISCLAIMER
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This is experimental material; changes are to be expected.

Use at your own risk:  No guarantee is made as to the proper functioning
of this software.  No liability will be admitted for damage resulting
from using this software.


Primary distribution site:
ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/lucidaso/
Mirror site:
http://home.vr-web.de/was/luci.html


Mail your comments, questions, bug reports to:
Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>

VTeX-specific questions should be addressed to:
Walter Schmidt <was@VR-Web.de>

Changes:

2000/12/09:
	corrected encoding of OT1-encoded typewriter fonts:
	some characters inside a \verb command were incorrect
	(thanks to Thomas Lotze for bug report).