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From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mike DeCorte)
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Subject: Re: Tengwar or Cirth
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Date: 19 Sep 88 20:10:19 GMT
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From tugboat 9.2 page 140:

Elvish, or more properly, Tengwar, is the script used by the
elves of Middle Earth.  It was described by J.R.R. Tolken.

On 4 Dec 1986 Mike Urban released the METAFONT conde for the Tengwar
script throught the Usente newsgroup comp.text.

Mike said the following:

[Here are the] METAFONT sources for a digitized version of Tengwar
(Elvish script) created by J.R.R. Tolkien.  Thy have only been tested
on a 300dpi laser printer.  No guarantee of the quality of either the 
code or the output is offered.  I'm not patricularly satisfied with
the quality of the code (my fist non-trivial attempt to use METAFONT),
but the results look OK to me.

Contact:

Michael Urban
TRW Inc., R2/2009
One Space Park,
Redondo Beach, CA 90278, USA
Phone: 213-812-0632
Net: urban@spp2.UUCP

All of this is on score in tex.texhax in the file wujastyk.thx [it was also
in sun.soe:~mrd/tmp until a week ago]




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