TengTeX

What's TengTeX?

It's a package for writing with tengwar, obviously! You only have to choose a font and a translation schema (strictly dependent on the language you write in) and then write. It provides modes for Quenya and Sindarin (with tehtar and full vowels) as they were written near the end of the Third Age, and some options to tune its translating engine according to some variations seen in the sources (so that you can also easily starting typesetting in Westron or Black Speech with a single command). There's still no support for other languages or really older orthography (no tyelpetéma, almost no tengwa with extended telco, but thúle, ñoldo, ñwalme etc. are included).

What do I need?

Well, you need a tengwar font, of course. TengTeX uses four (three, actually) fonts:

Julian C. Bradfield's teng10
or Mike Urban's tengwar
or Ivan A. Derzhanski's Computer Modern Tengwar and Computer Roman Tengwar families (included in the latest distribution).

For these last two families you must have the Sauter distribution, which can be found starting from the TUG home page.

Then you need only two other things: a working TeX system and the METAFONT program to generate the chosen fonts at needed resolution. If you prefer Type1 fonts then have a look here: there are some (still experimental) packages containing the abovementioned fonts in Type1 format.

Clarification

This page is not the primary repository of TengTeX and I'm not its author. I simply like it, use it and think it's a wonderful package. I don't want to spoil Ivan of his work and glory (far from it!); I just hope to be able to add something useful to TengTeX once in a while.

TengTeX's history

Official releases	Unofficial releases
The first version of TengTeX, numbered 1.00, was released on 22 September 1994
	After the first release, on 24 May 1996 Frank C. Langbein produced an unofficial version (1.05) of TengTeX, removing the code for Bradfield's font, for NTeX
The second version of TengTeX, numbered 1.01, was released on 22 September 1996
The third version of TengTeX, numbered 1.10, was released on 22 September 2000
	Some day, in May 2001, I produced an unofficial release (1.10.1) adding NFSS support to TengTeX
	On 5 November 2001, I made a new unofficial release of TengTeX (1.10.2) correcting a non-standard behavior (introduced by me) and moving around a bit of code
	On 28 February 2002, I made a new unofficial release of TengTeX (1.10.3) correcting another error (introduced by me)
	On 22 April 2002, I made a new unofficial release of TengTeX (1.10.4) improving NFSS support
	On 1 May 2002, I made a new unofficial release of TengTeX (1.10.5) correcting my buggy NFSS integration code
	On 12 November 2002, I made a new unofficial release of TengTeX (1.10.6) adding a better Black Speech mode and a small appendix to the manual
	On 29 July 2003, I made a new unofficial release of TengTeX (1.10.7) reimplementing user commands as robust ones and expanding the small appendix to the manual

Comments and corrections on the above short history are welcome (please, start the subject with [elvishtc] so that I will be able to filter it and read before other messages).

Last modified: Tue Jul 29 13:27:01 2003