README.PRW Some, if not all, of the subdirectories in the bookhands directory provide a series of METAFONT fonts and LaTeX packages for typesetting with the manuscript book-hands that were used during the period from the first century until the invention of printing. Not all of the possible manuscript hands are provided --- they number in the hundreds --- but hopefully a representative sample of the more important are here. In this context `more important' means that they have been among the main ancestors of our modern printing types. The series as I have planned it will consist of the following book-hands: Book-hand Century Subdirectory? --------- ------- ------------- Square Capitals 1 onwards sqrcaps Roman Rustic 1--6 rustic Uncial 3--6 uncial Half Uncial 3--9 huncial Artificial Uncial 6--10 auncial Insular majuscule 6--9 inslrmaj Insular miniscule 6 onwards inslrmin Carolingian minuscule 8--12 carolmin Early Gothic 11--12 egothic Gothic Textura 13--15 tgothic Gothic Prescius 13 onwards pgothic Rotunda 13--15 rotunda Humanist minuscule 14 onwards humanist The proposed subdirectory names are, of course, subject to the agreement of the CTAN maintainers. From time to time I hope to add to the current collection until all are done. The file bsamples.ps is a Postscript file which displays samples of each of the book-hand fonts that I have developed. This distribution is released under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL). Please note that anyone is welcome to make their own contributions to the bookhands directory. It is not mine, although the CTAN maintainers were kind enough to create it at my request. Peter W. peter.r.wilson@boeing.com 22 May 1999