    The sqrcaps and allsqrc packages provide Metafont fonts based on the 
Square Capitals manuscript book-hand used from the 1st century AD. 
The font consists of capital letters and digits, with some appropriate 
period punctuation marks. Both normal and bold versions are provided. 
This is one in a series of manuscript fonts.

    Access to the docmfp package is desireable but not essential.

    The distribution consists of the following files:
README (this file)
sqrcaps.ins
sqrcaps.dtx
tryfont.tex
allfont.tex

    The distribution is provided under the terms of the LaTeX
Project Public License (LPPL).

To install the package:
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o run: latex sqrcaps.ins, which will generate:
       sqrc*.mf files
       *.fd files
       sqrcaps.sty
       allsqrc.sty
o Move the generated files to locations where LaTeX will find them.
    For example: the sqrc*.mf files to .../texmf/fonts/source/public/sqrcaps
                 the *.fd and *.sty files to /texmf/tex/latex/local/sqrcaps

    On a teTeX distribution you might also have to add lines like the 
    following to texmf/fontname/special.map:
      sqrc7.mf        public    sqrcaps
      sqrc10.mf       public    sqrcaps
      sqrc17.mf       public    sqrcaps
      sqrcb7.mf       public    sqrcaps
      sqrcb10.mf      public    sqrcaps
      sqrcb17.mf      public    sqrcaps
    On a teTeX distribution remember to run texhash after moving the files.

    (I use a teTeX distribution and found that if I didn't add to the special.map
     file, then the generated tfm and pk files were put in directories corresponding
     to some vendor's font.) 

    Other LaTeX distributions might require procedures similar to those for teTeX.

To typeset the documentation:
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o run: latex sqrcaps.dtx
o if you want an index then run: makeindex -s gind.ist sqrcaps
o run: latex sqrcaps.dtx
o Print sqrcaps.dvi for a hardcopy of the package manual 

    Note that the docmfp package is normally required for LaTeXing sqrcaps.dtx.
The package is available from CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported.
If you haven't got this and don't want to get it, then there are instructions
in the first part of the .dtx file about how to edit it to avoid the use of docmfp.
(docmfp is an extension of the doc package for describing METAFONT, or other
non-LaTeX, code.)


To check out your installation:
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o run: latex tryfont  for a testpage of the fonts
o run: latex allfont  for a document typeset with the fonts

2002/12/30
Peter Wilson
peter.r.wilson@boeing.com
