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+                          GNU FreeFont

+

+The GNU FreeFont project aims to provide a useful set of free scalable

+(i.e., OpenType) fonts covering as much as possible of the ISO 10646/Unicode

+UCS (Universal Character Set).

+

+Statement of Purpose

+--------------------

+

+The practical reason for putting glyphs together in a single font face is

+to conveniently mix symbols and characters from different writing systems,

+without having to switch fonts.

+

+Coverage

+--------

+

+FreeFont covers the following character ranges

+* Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic, with supplements for many languages

+* Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Thaana, Syriac

+* Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Sinhala, Tamil, Malayalam

+* Thai, Tai Le, Kayah Li, Hanunóo, Buginese

+* Cherokee, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

+* Ethiopian, Tifnagh, Vai, Osmanya, Coptic

+* Glagolitic, Gothic, Runic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Phoenician, Old Italic

+* Braille, International Phonetic Alphabet

+* currency symbols, general punctuation and diacritical marks, dingbats

+* mathematical symbols, including much of the TeX repertoire of symbols

+* technical symbols: APL, OCR, arrows,

+* geometrical shapes, box drawing

+* musical symbols, gaming symbols, miscellaneous symbols

+  etc.

+For more detail see <http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/coverage.html>

+

+Editing

+-------

+

+The free outline font editor, George Williams' FontForge

+<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/> is used for editing the fonts.

+

+Design Issues

+-------------

+

+Which font shapes should be made?  Historical style terms like Renaissance

+or Baroque letterforms cannot be applied beyond Latin/Cyrillic/Greek

+scripts to any greater extent than Kufi or Nashki can be applied beyond

+Arabic script; "italic" is strictly meaningful only for Latin letters, 

+although many scripts such as Cyrillic have a history with "cursive" and

+many others with "oblique" faces. 

+

+However, most modern writing systems have typographic formulations for

+contrasting uniform and modulated character stroke widths, and since the

+advent of the typewriter, most have developed a typographic style with

+uniform-width characters.

+

+Accordingly, the FreeFont family has one monospaced - FreeMono - and two

+proportional faces (one with uniform stroke - FreeSans - and one with

+modulated stroke - FreeSerif).

+

+The point of having characters from different writing systems in one font

+is that mixed text should look good, and so each FreeFont face contains

+characters of similar style and weight.

+

+Licensing

+---------

+

+Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published

+by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or

+(at your option) any later version.

+

+The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but

+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY

+or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License

+for more details.

+

+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along

+with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,

+51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

+

+As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and

+embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this

+font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the

+GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any

+other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public

+License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your

+version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so.  If you do not

+wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.

+

+Files and their suffixes

+------------------------

+

+The files with .sfd (Spline Font Database) are in FontForge's native format. 

+They may be used to modify the fonts.

+

+TrueType fonts are the files with the .ttf (TrueType Font) suffix.  These

+are ready to use in Linux/Unix, on Apple Mac OS, and on Microsoft Windows

+systems.

+

+OpenType fonts (with suffix .otf) are preferred for use on Linux/Unix,

+but *not* for recent Microsoft Windows systems.

+See the INSTALL file for more information.

+

+Web Open Font Format files (with suffix .woff) are for use in Web sites.

+See the webfont_guidelines.txt for further information.

+

+Further information

+-------------------

+

+Home page of GNU FreeFont:

+	http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/

+

+More information is at the main project page of Free UCS scalable fonts:

+	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/

+

+To report problems with GNU FreeFont, it is best to obtain a Savannah

+account and post reports using that account on

+	https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/

+	

+Public discussions about GNU FreeFont may be posted to the mailing list

+	freefont-bugs@gnu.org

+

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+Original author: Primoz Peterlin

+Current administrator: Steve White <stevan.white@googlemail.com>

+

+$Id: README,v 1.10 2011-06-12 07:14:12 Stevan_White Exp $