June 18, 1993
This is a quick note to explain what is what in this directory:
   it may ultimately be fleshed out (it needs to be).

Here we have metafont source for fonts useful for
     Old English
     Indic languages in Roman transliteration
     Puget Salish (Lushootseed) and other American Indian languages

You may perform a quick evaluation of the 10 point roman members of 
these families by taking the file fontsamp.ps and printing it on a
(preferably 300 dpi) postscript printer.

These are in the families
     wngb*   Washington Gerald Barnett (old English)
     wnri*   Washington Romanized Indic
     wnps*   Washington Puget Salish

     The wngb and wnri families have previously been available
privately on a test basis.  The wnps family was privately circulated
under the names wnpfa* and wnpfb* (Washington phonetic font a and b).
All prior versions are obsolete and no longer being modified/developed/
corrected.

Note that although WNRI is based on the Classical Sanskrit Extended character
set it has been extended yet again to provide character support for 
other languages which might be encountered in an Indic context, and may be 
useful to someone working in a great many east-of-Suez contexts.

The metafont sources for these fonts are available immediately via
anonymous ftp at blackbox.hacc.washington.edu in the directory pub/metafont.
All these are in one big directory, as they all draw on the same group of
support files.  Take 'em all.  Some day we may have the time to organize
things more nicely, but do you really want to wait for that to happen?

Some of these have had little or no real world testing, so evaluate before
committing to their use, particularly any san serif and typewriter faces.
Or wait until have occasion to test them intesively ourselves; your choice.

The top-level files which you actually run metafont on are
wngbb10.mf   WNGB bold 10
wngbb8.mf         bold 8
wngbbx10.mf       bold extended 10
wngbi10.mf        italic 10
wngbi8.mf         italic 8
wngbib10.mf       italic bold 10 (should be bold italic)
wngbr10.mf        roman 10
wngbr8.mf         roman 8
wngbss10.mf       san serif 10
wngbt10.mf        typewriter 10
wnpsb10.mf   WNPS bold 10
wnpsb8.mf         bold 8
wnpsbi10.mf       bold italic 10
wnpsi10.mf        italic 10
wnpsi8.mf         italic 8
wnpsr10.mf        roman 10
wnpsr8.mf         roman 8
wnpss10.mf        sanserif 10
wnpss8.mf         sans 8
wnpst10.mf        typewriter 10
wnpst8.mf         typewriter 8
wnrib10.mf   WNRI bold 10
wnrib8.mf         bold 8
wnribi10.mf       bold italic 10
wnrii10.mf        italic 10
wnrii8.mf         italic 8
wnrir10.mf        roman 10
wnrir8.mf         roman 8
wnris10.mf        sans 10
wnris8.mf         sans 8
wnrit10.mf        typewriter 10
wnrit8.mf         typewriter 8