ctan-ann - archaic

CTAN bundle update --- archaic fonts (several)

2005-11-13T11:05:06Z

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded archaic.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use the contents 
> to replace the equivalent files in /fonts/archaic (and asamples.pdf 
> replacing asamples.ps). There are no technical changes but a *.map file has 
> been provided covering all my archaic fonts.
> 
>     I have also uploaded the following .tar.gz files:
> hieroglf,
> protosem,
> phoenician,
> greek4cbc,
> greek6cbc,
> etruscan,
> runic,
> nabatean, and
> oands.

...

CTAN Update: Phaistos.otf

2008-07-01T15:13:24Z

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Apostolos Syropoulos submitted an update to the

  phaistos

package.

It is a A font that contains all the symbols of the famous Disc of Phaistos, 
together with a LaTeX package.  The disc was ‘printed’ by stamping the wet clay 
with some sort of punches, probably around 1700 BCE.

There are those who believe that this Cretan script was used to ‘write’ Greek 
(it is known, for example, that the rather later Cretan Linear B script was used 
to write Greek), but arguments for other languages have been presented.  Given 
that the disc is the only known example of the script, it seems unlikely that a 
decipherment will ever be confirmed.

Location on CTAN: /fonts/archaic/phaistos

...

Bug fixes: CTAN files givbc10.pfb and etr10.pfb

2009-05-19T16:42:17Z

peter wilson wrote:

>     I have uploaded (binary) givbc10.pfb and etr10.pfb to UK
> incoming. Please use givbc10.pfb to replace the current
> fonts/archaic/givbc10.pfb and etr10.pfb to replace
> fonts/archaic/etr10.pfb.
> 
>     These changes are to correct the original file naming/contents
> mismatch.
> 
>     I suppose this should be announced as it corrects a problem noted
> with TeXLive (and hence CTAN).

i have installed the fixed versions of these fonts; thanks for the
upload.

the fonts are part of the archaic fonts bundle, whose catalogue entry

...