diff --git a/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/README b/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/README
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+ttf-ancient-fonts (Unicode fonts for ancient scripts)
+
+These are free unicode fonts for Aegean Scripts, other ancient scripts
+in the greater Aegean vicinity, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Sumero-Akkadian
+Cuneiform, and Musical Symbols in the Unicode Standard.
+
+Despite the "ttf" in the name, the package includes a few .otf fonts
+as well.
+
+The fonts installed by this package include hinting, by default. If you
+for some reason require unhinted fonts, export HINTS=no in the
+environment before running the SlackBuild. If you don't know what font
+hinting is, you probably shouldn't worry about it.
+
+The source tarball contains an older version of the Symbola font.
+By default it's not included here, as there's already a symbola-font-ttf
+on SBo. It's a much newer version of Symbola, but is licensed under
+highly restrictive terms. If you'd rather have the older but free-to-use
+version of Symbola, set SYMBOLA=yes in the environment for this build,
+and don't install symbola-font-ttf.
diff --git a/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/README.debian b/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/README.debian
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+Versions of the fonts included in this package
+==============================================
+
+Aegean      v.9.17  02/2017  Scripts and symbols of the Aegean world
+Textfonts   v.7.17  02/2017  Fonts based on early Greek editions
+
+Symbola     v.9.17  07/2017  Symbol blocks of The Unicode Standard
+Abydos      v.1.23  07/2017  A data-font of 7440 Egyptian Hieroglyphs
+Aegyptus    v.6.17  02/2017  Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Coptic, Meroitic
+Akkadian    v.7.17  02/2017  Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform
+Anatolian   v.5.17  02/2017  Anatolian Hieroglyphs
+Maya        v.4.17  02/2017  Maya Hieroglyphs
+Unidings    v.9.17  07/2017  Icons for blocks of The Unicode Standard
+Musica      v.3.17  02/2017  Musical Notation
+Analecta    v.5.17  02/2017  Coptic, Gothic, Deseret
+
+The package also includes the following fonts obsoleted by the author:
+
+Alfios (superseded by Asea)
+Atavyros
+Avdira
diff --git a/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/copyright.debian b/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/copyright.debian
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+This package was debianized by:
+
+    Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch> on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:13:25 +0100.
+
+It was downloaded from:
+
+    http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
+
+Upstream Author:
+
+    George Douros <g1951d@teilar.gr>
+
+Copyright:
+
+    Copyright (C) 2007-2015 George Douros
+
+License:
+
+    Fonts are free for any use; they may be opened, edited,
+    modified, regenerated, packaged and redistributed.
+
+The Debian packaging is:
+
+    Copyright (C) 2007-2017 Gürkan Myczko <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>
+    Copyright (C)      2015 Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>
+    is licensed under the GPL, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
diff --git a/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/doinst.sh b/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/doinst.sh
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+if [ -x /usr/bin/mkfontdir ]; then
+  ( cd usr/share/fonts/TTF
+    mkfontscale .
+    mkfontdir .
+  )
+  ( cd usr/share/fonts/OTF
+    mkfontscale .
+    mkfontdir .
+  )
+fi
+if [ -x /usr/bin/fc-cache ]; then
+  /usr/bin/fc-cache -f
+fi
diff --git a/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/slack-desc b/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/slack-desc
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+# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
+# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description.
+# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and
+# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in.
+# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also
+# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
+
+                 |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
+ttf-ancient-fonts: ttf-ancient-fonts (Unicode fonts for ancient scripts)
+ttf-ancient-fonts:
+ttf-ancient-fonts: These are free unicode fonts for Aegean Scripts, other ancient scripts
+ttf-ancient-fonts: in the greater Aegean vicinity, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Sumero-Akkadian
+ttf-ancient-fonts: Cuneiform, and Musical Symbols in the Unicode Standard.
+ttf-ancient-fonts:
+ttf-ancient-fonts: The TTF fonts in this package are @UN@hinted.
+ttf-ancient-fonts:
+ttf-ancient-fonts:
+ttf-ancient-fonts:
+ttf-ancient-fonts:
diff --git a/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/ttf-ancient-fonts.SlackBuild b/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/ttf-ancient-fonts.SlackBuild
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Slackware build script for ttf-ancient-fonts
+
+# Written by B. Watson (yalhcru@gmail.com)
+
+# Licensed under the WTFPL. See http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ for details.
+
+# Notes to self (or anyone else who cares):
+
+# The tarball includes both hinted and unhinted versions of the fonts. The
+# Debian package installs <font>.ttf and <font>_hint.ttf for all the
+# fonts. However, if I do this, it's impossible to select the _hint
+# versions in any application (because the TTF names conflict). Since
+# it's possible to disable hinting in fontconfig or specific apps,
+# I'm only going to include the _hint versions here by default. User
+# can override with HINTS=no. The .otf fonts only come in one variety,
+# so they're always installed as-is.
+
+# There are newer versions of these fonts at https://dn-works.com/ufas/
+# but they're under what I consider a ludicrously restrictive license,
+# so I'm not going to touch them with a 10 foot pole. The symbola-font-ttf
+# package is the restrictive version, so I've made it possible to include
+# the older (free-to-use) Symbola here, though it's not the default.
+
+# There's no documentation in the tarball, so I borrow it from Debian.
+# There's no license info in the tarball, and neither the original site
+# nor web.archive.org still has has the "un-Debianized" zip files that
+# presumably included the licenses, so I'm including Debian's copyright
+# file that asserts these fonts are "free for any use".
+
+PRGNAM=ttf-ancient-fonts
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.60}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
+ARCH=noarch
+
+CWD=$(pwd)
+TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
+PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
+OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
+
+set -e
+
+HINTS="${HINTS:-yes}"
+
+# If the user requested unhinted fonts, don't even bother to extract
+# the hinted versions.
+[ "$HINTS" != "yes" ] && UN=un && TAROPT="--exclude=*_hint.ttf"
+
+rm -rf $PKG
+mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
+cd $TMP
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION.orig
+tar xvf $CWD/${PRGNAM}_$VERSION.orig.tar.xz $TAROPT
+cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION.orig
+chown -R root:root .
+find -L .  -perm /111 -a \! -perm 755 -a -exec chmod 755 {} \+ -o \
+        \! -perm /111 -a \! -perm 644 -a -exec chmod 644 {} \+
+
+HAS_SYMBOLA=yes
+[ "${SYMBOLA:-no}" = "no" ] && rm -f Symbola* && HAS_SYMBOLA=no
+
+# If we're doing hinted fonts, get rid of the unhinted ones. I can't think
+# of a sane way to avoid extracting them in the first place...
+[ "$HINTS" = "yes" ] && /bin/ls *.ttf | grep -v _hint | xargs rm -f
+
+for i in TTF OTF; do
+  mkdir -p $PKG/usr/share/fonts/$i
+  install -m0644 *.$( echo $i | tr A-Z a-z) $PKG/usr/share/fonts/$i
+done
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+for i in README.debian copyright.debian; do
+  cat $CWD/$i > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$i
+done
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/install
+sed "s,@UN@,$UN," $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+if [ "$HAS_SYMBOLA" = "yes" ]; then
+  sed -i \
+    '17s/$/ This package includes the Symbola font, and will conflict with symbola-font-ttf/' \
+    $PKG/install/slack-desc
+fi
+cat $CWD/doinst.sh > $PKG/install/doinst.sh
+
+cd $PKG
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/ttf-ancient-fonts.info b/system/ttf-ancient-fonts/ttf-ancient-fonts.info
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+PRGNAM="ttf-ancient-fonts"
+VERSION="2.60"
+HOMEPAGE="https://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-ancient-fonts"
+DOWNLOAD="http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-ancient-fonts/ttf-ancient-fonts_2.60.orig.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="a0132b3262b3eec9bc2fc8ff8c4ed9f3"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
+REQUIRES=""
+MAINTAINER="B. Watson"
+EMAIL="yalhcru@gmail.com"