The fonts offer huge numbers of swashed and ligatured versions of glyphs, which are difficult for any software to control in a Type 1 font. This package (with some expenditure of effort in the user) will allow some really remarkable typeset effects.

Note: poetica has been re-released as an OpenType font; the macros of this package would need some work before they would work with this alternate form.

The author is Alan Hoenig.