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+-*-text-*- |
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+ GNU FreeFont |
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+ |
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+The GNU FreeFont project aims to provide a useful set of free scalable |
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+(i.e., OpenType) fonts covering as much as possible of the ISO 10646/Unicode |
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+UCS (Universal Character Set). |
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+ |
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+Statement of Purpose |
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+-------------------- |
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+ |
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+The practical reason for putting glyphs together in a single font face is |
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+to conveniently mix symbols and characters from different writing systems, |
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+without having to switch fonts. |
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+ |
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+Coverage |
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+-------- |
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+ |
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+FreeFont covers the following character sets |
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+ |
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+* ISO 8859 parts 1-15 |
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+* CEN MES-3 European Unicode Subset |
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+ http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf |
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+* IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 850, 852, 1250, 1252 and more |
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+* Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4) |
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+ http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm |
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+* KOI8-R and KOI8-RU |
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+* DEC VT100 graphics symbols |
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+* International Phonetic Alphabet |
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+* Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian and Thai alphabets, |
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+ including Arabic presentation forms A/B |
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+* mathematical symbols, including the whole TeX repertoire of symbols |
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+* APL symbols |
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+ etc. |
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+ |
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+Editing |
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+------- |
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+ |
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+The free outline font editor, George Williams's FontForge |
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+<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/> is used for editing the fonts. |
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+ |
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+Design Issues |
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+------------- |
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+ |
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+Which font shapes should be made? Historical style terms like Renaissance |
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+or Baroque letterforms cannot be applied beyond Latin/Cyrillic/Greek |
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+scripts to any greater extent than Kufi or Nashki can be applied beyond |
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+Arabic script; "italic" is really only meaningful for Latin letters. |
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+ |
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+However, most modern writing systems have typographic formulations for |
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+contrasting uniform and modulated character stroke widths, and have some |
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+history with "oblique", faces. Since the advent of the typewriter, most |
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+have developed a typographic style with uniform-width characters. |
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+ |
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+Accordingly, the FreeFont family has one monospaced - FreeMono - and two |
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+proportional faces (one with uniform stroke - FreeSans - and one with |
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+modulated stroke - FreeSerif). |
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+ |
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+To make text from different writing systems look good side-by-side, each |
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+FreeFont face is meant to contain characters of similar style and weight. |
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+ |
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+Licensing |
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+--------- |
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+ |
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+Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |
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+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published |
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+by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or |
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+(at your option) any later version. |
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+ |
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+The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but |
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+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY |
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+or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License |
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+for more details. |
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+ |
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+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along |
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+with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., |
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+51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |
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+ |
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+As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and |
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+embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this |
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+font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the |
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+GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any |
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+other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public |
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+License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your |
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+version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not |
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+wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. |
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+ |
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+ |
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+Files and their suffixes |
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+------------------------ |
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+ |
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+The files with .sfd (Spline Font Database) are in FontForge's native format. |
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+Please use these if you plan to modify the font files. |
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+ |
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+TrueType fonts for immediate consumption are the files with the .ttf |
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+(TrueType Font) suffix. These are ready to use in Xwindows based |
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+systems using FreeType, on Mac OS, and on older Windows systems. |
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+ |
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+OpenType fonts (with suffix .otf) are for use in Windows Vista. |
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+Note that although they can be installed on Linux, but many applications |
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+in Linux still don't support them. |
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+ |
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+ |
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+-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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+Primoz Peterlin, <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si> |
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+Steve White <stevan.white@googlemail.com> |
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+ |
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+Free UCS scalable fonts: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ |
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+$Id: README,v 1.7 2009/01/13 08:43:23 Stevan_White Exp $ |