On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote:
I have uploaded to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de (nova.dante.de) the file kerkis.zip
The package contains the first (I believe) Type1 font to fully support Greek (polytonic included) through Babel. The support of the latin alphabet is also at a very good level as kerkis supports ot1 and t1 encodings. It is an extension of the Bookman Old Style fonts. In addition to Greek it contains many missing ligatures from URWBookman and true Small Caps.
Since the package supports the latin languages I suppose that it is proper to be placed among the other Type1 fonts. Since it especially supports Greek I think that a link should be placed inside the Greek directory pointing to kerkis (for the moment it is the only free way to create descent pdf files in Greek as the default support for Greek provides only Metafont fonts).
Licensing: They are free to redistribute. There is only one restriction that is if they are used for commercial purposes (eg books) the Copyright section must include a note about the fonts saying that the document uses kerkis fonts (C) Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean
Thanks a lot for the upload, I installed these files in
fonts/greek/kerkis
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf