Installing a font in LaTeX is something of a black art.  The instructions
below work on my Linux installation; I hope that they will work with minimal
modification on your installation, or that I'll be able to derive a more
coherant explanation of the steps you'll need to take to install the font.

Files in this package:

README         this file
starfont.sty   goes where style files go; in the same directory as your
               document seems to work
starfont.map   goes in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/misc/
starfont.tex   documentation for how to use the package (need to install the
               package first before you can run this!)
starfont.pdf   documentation pre-generated to avoid chicken and egg problem
table.pdf      encoding table for the font

Files CTAN can't distribute:

starfont.afm   goes in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/public/starfont/
starfont.pfb   goes in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/starfont/
STRFNSAN.TTF   original TrueType file, not needed but useful for reference

Read the documentation in starfont.tex or starfont.pdf for information on
the missing files.

After putting the files in the appropriate directories, must run mktexlsr
to put them in the kpathsea database.  Also add this line to
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg:

Map starfont.map

and then run updmap.  I *think* that those steps suffice to make the font
accessible to documents that include starfont.sty.

This package is released to the public domain as far as my own contributions
are concerned.  The font itself is believed to be released for free use by
its creator, Anthony I.P. Owen, but that could not be verified definitively
and so the font is not included in the CTAN package.  Users must obtain it,
and licensing for it, separately.

Matthew Skala
mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/

29 June 2006