=========================================================== "Bera" font pack for LaTeX as of 2004-09-30 ============================================================ Malte Rosenau Walter Schmidt This collection comprises the "Bera" Type1 fonts and the files required to use them with LaTeX on the Un*x or PC platform. "Bera" is a set of three PostScript Type1 font families: Bera Serif (a slab-serif Roman), Bera Sans (a Frutiger descendant), and Bera Mono (monospaced/typewriter). The fonts were originally designed by Bitstream, Inc in TrueType format under the name "Bitstream Vera". These fonts are available from . Malte Rosenau converted the Vera fonts to the Postscript type1 format; the license required a different name ("Bera") to be assigend to the result. Ulrich Dirr (Art & Satz) reworked the kerning tables of the Bera Sans fonts. The file bera.pdf shows samples of the Bera fonts and lists all available families, series and shapes. The below installation instructions assume a TDS-compliant TeX system, such as teTeX, MikTeX or VTeX/Free. Yet they may not exactly fit your particular TeX system; please, consult its documentation, too! The directory name "texmf" refers to the root directory of a TDS directory tree. In case your TeX systems has more than one TDS tree, its documentation should tell you where to install new files. History ------- 2004-09-30 bugs in the kerning tables of BeraSans fixed 2004-09-07 substantially improved kerning data for Bera Sans (special thanks to Ulrich Dirr!); minor fixes to the kerning data of Bera Serif; miinor changes to the substititions in the fd files; minor changes to the documentation; font sample; 2004-01-31 preliminary release Installing the Type1 font files ------------------------------- The Type1 font files fveb8a.pfb fver8a.pfb fvmb8a.pfb fvmbo8a.pfb fvmr8a.pfb fvmro8a.pfb fvsb8a.pfb fvsbo8a.pfb fvsr8a.pfb fvsro8a.pfb are to be copied to the directory texmf/fonts/type1/public/bera of your TeX system, and the related .afm files should go into texmf/fonts/afm/public/bera Most likely, you will have to create these directories first. Installing the TeX support files from the archive bera.zip ---------------------------------------------------------- Unpack the ZIP archive bera.zip in the directory "texmf" of your TeX system; thus, all files will be copied to the appropriate directories. Updating the filename database ------------------------------ Many TeX systems require manual updating of a "filename database" after adding of new files. Please, consult the documentation of your TeX system! Configuring your TeX system --------------------------- The required actions depend on the particular TeX system. Particular sets of instructions are provided below for * teTeX 2.0 and later, * VTeX/Free 8.x and later. In case you have a different TeX system, consult its documentation how to make it use the additional font map file named "bera.map". Two copies of this file reside in the directories texmf/dvips/config/ and texmf/fonts/map/dvips. Configuring teTeX: Use the shell script "updmap" to add the font map file named "bera.map" to the configuration. See the documentation of your particular teTeX version how to use the script. With teTeX 2.0 and above, execute the following commands: texhash updmap --enable Map bera.map Configuring VTeX/Free: Make VTeX read the additional font map ("aliasing") file bera.ali. This is usually accomplished by putting a record for this file into each of the configuration files texmf/vtex/config/pdf.fm and texmf/vtex/config/ps.fm "bera.ali" is to be added to the TYPE1 section of the above-mentioned files: TYPE1 { ... bera.ali } Using the Bera fonts with LaTeX ------------------------------- See the file bera.txt, which resides in the directory texmf/doc/fonts/bera. Bugs and problems ----------------- With older versions of the dvips program, font subsetting may fail with the Bera fonts. In this case, disable subsetting through the dvips option "-j0", or change the font map file bera.map accordingly. The Type1 fonts exhibit a font-specific encoding, rather than the usual "Adobe Standard". While this is irrelevant for TeX, it may lead to problems with applications from the non-TeX world. In case you encounter any such problem, please report to Malte Rosenau . Any bugs regarding the TeX metrics (including the kerning data), fd files and macros should be reported to WalterSchmidt . Legal notice ------------ The license terms for the Bera fonts are included in the file LICENSE. The contents of the archive file bera.zip are Copyright (c) 2004 Walter Schmidt The files may be distributed (either as a ZIP archive or unpacked) and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 1999/12/01 or later. == finis