CTAN has a new package: LFB

Jim Hefferon ftpmaint at alan.smcvt.edu
Thu Jun 30 15:58:56 CEST 2005


The package described below has been installed on tug.ctan.org and through
the magic of Rainer's mirroring process, will soon propagate to your
favorite mirror.

Thanks for the contribution,
Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: LFB
Author's name: Laurie Field
Location on CTAN: /fonts/greek/lfb
Summary description: Greek font, written in METAFONT, with normal and 
  bold variants.
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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This is a Greek font I wrote in METAFONT several years ago after being 
inspired by the Bodoni typefaces I had seen in the old books in my school 
library. It is stylistically a little more exotic than the standard 
textbook greek  fonts, particularly in glyphs like the lowercase rho and 
kappa. It aims for a rather calligraphic feel, but I also think it blends 
well with Computer Modern.

I included a ligature scheme which automatically inserts the breathings 
required for ancient texts, making the input text more readable than in some 
schemes. Since it is now de rigueur to use outline fonts, I have largely 
abandoned this project, but I hope someone finds it useful.
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You can have a look at the package at
  http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/greek/lfb/
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror 
of CTAN that is near to you; see 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors 
.



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