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                  |     THE COMICSANS PACKAGE      |
                  | By Scott Pakin, pakin@uiuc.edu |
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Description
===========

The comicsans package makes Microsoft's Comic Sans font available to
LaTeX2e.  comicsans supports all of the following:

  * Roman text, boldface text, small-caps text, and -- with a little
    extra effort -- italic text

  * Cyrillic (roman text, boldface text, italic text)

  * Mathematics using Comic Sans wherever possible


Installation
============

Complete installation instructions appear in the comicsans
documentation, comicsans.pdf (formatted for U.S. Letter paper).  A
brief summary follows:

  * Acquire and install the Comic Sans font.

  * Copy comicsans's texmf directory tree onto your local TeX
    directory tree.

  * Point your favorite TeX backend(s) (pdfTeX, Dvips, YAP, Xdvi,
    etc.) to the comicsans font-mapping file.

  * Refresh the TeX filename database.


Copyright and license
=====================

Copyright (C) 2002 by Scott Pakin <pakin@uiuc.edu>

This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2 of this license
or (at your option) any later version.  The latest version of this
license is in:

    http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version
1999/12/01 or later.


Acknowledgments
===============

Thanks to Bob Tennent for notifying me that Microsoft ceased
distributing Comic Sans themselves but that the font is now available
on SourceForge; and, thanks to Rolf Niepraschk for telling me about
cabextract, which can be used to extract fonts from comic32.exe.