----- Forwarded message from Maurizio Loreti ----- + what you've uploaded

incoming/initials.tar.gz

+ which CTAN node you've uploaded to

ftp.dante.de

+ where you want the files to go

tex-archive/fonts/initials/

+ what licensing conditions you apply to your software

non-commercial (for the fonts; the macros are public domain)

+ a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do

From the README file: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This archive contains PostScript binary files for a few decorative initials (also called dropped initials) fonts, and the service files needed in order to use these fonts with [La]TeX.

The fonts are freely usable for non-commercial use, and are a (small) subset of the ones designed and crafted by:

Dieter Steffmann Marburger Straße 93a D-57223 Kreuztal (Germany)

and available under his Web page

http://www.steffmann.de/english/index.htm

(follow the link to Fonts). That URL states:

You may download [the fonts] for free and use them for personal purposes.; my own files (all but the .pfb and .afm from the following list) are public domain.

The files included in the distribution are:

.pfb files: PostScript Font Binary files; .afm files: Adobe Font Metric files; .tfm files: TeX Font Metric files, for LaTeX; .fd files: Font Description files, for LaTeX; config files: configuration files, for dvips; .map files: font mapping files, for dvips; .tex files: example files; .pdf files: Portable Document Format output from the above example files. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message -----

Thank you very much for the upload. I installed the package in the directory CTAN:/tex-archive/nonfree/fonts/initials/ with a symbolic link from tex-archive/fonts/initials/

Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team