Minutes and Appendices (MAPS)
132 ScholarTEX Bijlage H
ScholarTEX Yannis Haralambous
ScholarTEX is a collection of fonts, macros, preproces- Hebrew: sor, hyphenation patterns, other related software and a Hebrew and Yiddish; input encoding user-de®ned; 150-pages manual with many illustrations, exemples, possibility of transliterated output; insertions and exercises and mottos. It's purpose is to allow the use of marginal notes; compatibility with LATEXandTEX±
TEX in the following alphabets: XET. Greek: Syriac: ancient as well as modern; input in 8-bit mode or Estrangelo; input encoding user-de®ned; possibi- entirely in 7-bit mode through ligatures; special Ox- lity of transliterated output; insertions and marginal ford symbols for epigraphical texts; hyphenation notes; compatibility with LATEXandTEX±XET.
patterns in 7 or 8 bit mode. End-of-word ligature Saxon
used for the ®nal sigma. Old German:
Epigraphical Greek & Latin: Fraktur and Schwabacher; end-of-word ligature over 200 glyphs of letters coming from ancient in- used for the short s; hyphenation patterns adapted.
scriptions; two fonts: the second being the mirror- Phonetic alphabet: image of the ®rst is used for automatic boustrophe- the WSUIPA fonts (public domain) compiled and don typesetting; simpli®ed input in an active upper- their original documentation reproduced. case letters environment. The aim of ScholarT X is to provide scholars the tools Armenian: E calligraphic or plain; slanted or straight; lowercase needed to typeset classical texts like the Bible (Hebrew, letter ligatures; input in 8-bit mode or entirely in Syriac, Greek, Armenian), the Coran (Arabic), Homer's 7-bit mode, through input ligatures; hyphenation Poems (Greek), the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Saxon), patterns in 7 or 8 bit mode. Goethe's Faust (Old German) etc. ScholarTEXisan evolutive package: according to the speci®c needs of Arabic: for Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, Urdu, Pashto, Ma- users, new glyphs can be added or the existing modi®ed. laysian; input encoding user-de®ned; possibility of ScholarTEX is available in three versions, all three fea- transliterated output; insertions and marginal notes; turing bitmap (magstep 0 to 5),PostScript Type 1, EPSF compatibility with LATEXandTEX±XET; unpointed and TrueType fonts, as follows: letters for old manuscripts.
Version Mac-Textures Mac-OzTeX PC Bitmap fonts Mac Suitcase PK & TFM ®les PostScript Macintosh Type 1 Format PC Type 1 (Type 1 font, suitcase and AMS ®le) (AFM, PFM, PFB) TrueType Macintosh TrueType suitcase PC TrueType (TTF)
PostScript Type 1 fonts are also available for the NeXT The price of ScholarTEX is $200 for individual users device. (please specify the version required); add $100 to ob- tain the sources (metafont, Pascal-WEB, PostScript). ScholarT X also serves as a platform for the distribution E The price for Academic Institutions and Publishers is of related public domain software after kindly permis- $500 (sources included). sion of their authors; in all cases the original documen- tation is reproduced and the software is ready-for-use. For orders or information please contact: For this release of ScholarTEX are included: Yannis Haralambous
the WSUIPA fonts, as already mentionned, 101/11, rue Breughel
the SB32 implementation of TEX±XET and ivd2dvi 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France (in the PC version). Bitnet: YANNIS@FRCITL81 Fax: (33) 20910564
Reprint MAPS#7 (91.2); Nov 1991 Dutch TEX Users Group (NTG), P.O. Box 394, 1740 AJ Schagen, The Netherlands