README-Antykwa-Poltawskiego.txt
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############ The Antykwa Poltawskiego Family of Fonts ############
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Font: Antykwa Poltawskiego
Authors: Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
Version: 1.114
Date: 16 VII 2025
Downloads: https://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/poltawski/
License:
% Copyright 1999--2025 for Antykwa Poltawskiego digital form by B. Jackowski,
% J.M. Nowacki and P. Strzelczyk (on behalf of the TeX Users Groups).
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% The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski.
% email contact: Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski aka Jacko, B_Jackowski@gust.org.pl
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% This work consists of the files listed
% in the MANIFEST-Antykwa-Poltawskiego.txt file.
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############ A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PACKAGE ############
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This package contains the Antykwa P\'o{\l}tawskiego family of fonts
in the PostScript Type 1 and OpenType formats.
The original font was designed in the twenties of the XX century by
the Polish typographer Adam P\'o{\l}tawski (born 15 May 1881 in
Warsaw, died 19 September 1952 in Cracow), hence the name, although
the author named it `antykwa polska'. It is maintained that the
design tried to capture the specific features of the Polish written
language. For example, the letters more frequent in Polish than in
other languages (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency )
like, e.g., 'w', 'y', `z', and, last but not least, 'lslash', got
specific shapes.
Antykwa Poltawskiego was first cast in Jan Id\'zkowski's foundry
(Warsaw, Poland) in 1931. Until late seventies of the XX century, Antykwa
Poltawskiego was used in Poland as the chief text type for musical
publications, in particular, in the monumental Ignacy Paderewski's
edition of the complete Fryderyk Chopin works (in XXVII volumes).
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Following the route set out by the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre projects
(https://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry), the Antykwa Poltawskiego
digitisation project aims at providing a rich collection of
diacritical characters in the attempt to cover as many Latin-based
scripts as possible. To our knowledge, the repertoire of characters
covers all European languages as well as some other Latin-based
alphabets such as Vietnamese and Navajo; at the request of users,
recent extensions (following the enhancement of the Latin Modern
collection) provide glyphs sufficient for typesetting of romanized
transliterations of Arabic and Sanskrit scripts. We have frequently
used the information presented by Michael Everson at the ``The
Alphabets of Europe'' (https://www.evertype.com/alphabets/) web
site. If you know about European languages that are not covered
completely or if some glyphs have apparently wrong shapes -- please
let us know.
The Antykwa Poltawskiego project was launched by the Polish TeX
Users GUST and is supported by TeX USERS GROUPS. Hearty thanks to the
representatives of these groups, especially to Mojca Miklavec, and also
to all people who helped with comments, ideas, remarks, bug reports,
objections, hints, consolations, etc.
* * *
Note that the digitized Antykwa Poltawskiego is programmed as a fully
parametrized outline font, following in the footsteps of Donald E. Knuth whose
Computer Modern fonts are also parameterized, although bitmapped, fonts
(cf. https://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/GUST/doc/poltawpr.pdf).
* * *
The Antykwa Poltawskiego family consists of 4 weights (light,
normal, medium, bold), each having upright and italic forms and one
of 5 design sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12 and 17pt (in the OTF lingo: extended,
semiextended, normal, semicondensed, and condensed, respectively).
Altogether, the collection comprises 40 font files, i.e.:
antpl6, antpl8, antpl10, antpl12, antpl17,
antpli6, antpli8, antpli10, antpli12, antpli17,
antpb6, antpb8, antpb10, antpb12, antpb17
antpbi6, antpbi8, antpbi10, antpbi12, antpbi17,
antpm6, antpm8, antpm10, antpm12, antpm17,
antpmi6, antpmi8, antpmi10, antpmi12, antpmi17,
antpr6, antpr8, antpr10, antpr12, antpr17,
antpri6, antpri8, antpri10, antpri12, antpri17,
The OTF fonts are equipped with the following "features":
c2sc, cpsp, dlig, dnom, frac, kern, liga, lnum, locl,
numr, onum, pnum, salt, sinf, size, smcp, ss01, ss02,
ss03, ss04, subs, sups, tnum, zero
The collection may be freely used and distributed under the GUST Font
License (see above) which is actually an instance of the LaTeX Project
Public License (LPPL; see https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt).
* * *
The package consists of the files in the directories conforming
to the TeX Directory Structure (https://ctan.org/tex-archive/tds or
https://tug.ctan.org/tds/tds.html). The directories contain:
doc/fonts/poltawski this file, manifest, licence, test files,
and, moreover, selected files used as input
for generating OTFs (meant as a technical
documentation of the OTFs)
tex/latex/poltawski support for LaTeX (*.fd and *.sty files,
prepared by Marcin Woli\'nski)
fonts/enc/dvips/poltawski support for dvips (*.enc files);
fonts/map/dvips/poltawski support for dvips (*.map files)
fonts/opentype/gust/poltawski fonts in the OpenType format (*.otf files)
fonts/type1/gust/poltawski PostScript (Type 1) font files and printer
font metric files (*.pfb and *.pfm,
respectively);
fonts/tfm/gust/poltawski TeX font metric files (*.tfm) for:
-- CS (CSTUG) encoding (cs-*.tfm),
-- EC (Cork) encoding (ec-*.tfm),
-- L7x (Lithuanian) encoding (l7x-*.tfm),
-- QX (GUST) encoding (qx-*.tfm),
-- RM (Regular Math or OT1) encoding (rm-*.tfm),
-- Y&Y's TeX'n'ANSI aka LY1 encoding
(texnansi-*.tfm),
-- T5 (Vietnamese) encoding (t5-*.tfm),
-- Text Companion for EC fonts aka TS1
(ts1-*.tfm).
Encodings CS, EC, L7x, QX, RM, Y&Y, and T5
have their cap-small-caps counterparts
(*-sc.tfm).
fonts/afm/gust/poltawski Adobe font metric files (*.afm);
* * *
In ConTeXt, support for the Antykwa Poltawskiego collection can be found
in the typescript definition files:
... /tex/context/base/type-enc.tex
... /tex/context/base/type-syn.tex
... /tex/context/base/type-exa.tex
... /tex/context/base/type-map.tex
Additional encoding and map files may be found in:
... /texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context
... /texmf/fonts/enc/pdftex/context
* * *
Each of the 40 font files contains the same set of 1,129 characters: 693 with Unicode values and
436 without. For a full list, check the ap-repertoire.txt file.
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