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Fixes the scroll areas in the pychan demo. fixes[t:363]
author prock@33b003aa-7bff-0310-803a-e67f0ece8222
date Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:48:07 +0000
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1 -*-text-*-
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2 GNU FreeFont
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4 The GNU FreeFont project aims to provide a useful set of free scalable
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5 (i.e., OpenType) fonts covering as much as possible of the ISO 10646/Unicode
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6 UCS (Universal Character Set).
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8 Statement of Purpose
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9 --------------------
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11 The practical reason for putting glyphs together in a single font face is
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12 to conveniently mix symbols and characters from different writing systems,
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13 without having to switch fonts.
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15 Coverage
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16 --------
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18 FreeFont covers the following character sets
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20 * ISO 8859 parts 1-15
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21 * CEN MES-3 European Unicode Subset
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22 http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf
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23 * IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 850, 852, 1250, 1252 and more
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24 * Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)
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25 http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm
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26 * KOI8-R and KOI8-RU
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27 * DEC VT100 graphics symbols
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28 * International Phonetic Alphabet
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29 * Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian and Thai alphabets,
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30 including Arabic presentation forms A/B
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31 * mathematical symbols, including the whole TeX repertoire of symbols
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32 * APL symbols
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33 etc.
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34
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35 Editing
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36 -------
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37
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38 The free outline font editor, George Williams's FontForge
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39 <http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/> is used for editing the fonts.
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41 Design Issues
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42 -------------
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43
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44 Which font shapes should be made? Historical style terms like Renaissance
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45 or Baroque letterforms cannot be applied beyond Latin/Cyrillic/Greek
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46 scripts to any greater extent than Kufi or Nashki can be applied beyond
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47 Arabic script; "italic" is really only meaningful for Latin letters.
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49 However, most modern writing systems have typographic formulations for
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50 contrasting uniform and modulated character stroke widths, and have some
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51 history with "oblique", faces. Since the advent of the typewriter, most
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52 have developed a typographic style with uniform-width characters.
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54 Accordingly, the FreeFont family has one monospaced - FreeMono - and two
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55 proportional faces (one with uniform stroke - FreeSans - and one with
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56 modulated stroke - FreeSerif).
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58 To make text from different writing systems look good side-by-side, each
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59 FreeFont face is meant to contain characters of similar style and weight.
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61 Licensing
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62 ---------
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64 Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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65 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
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66 by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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67 (at your option) any later version.
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68
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69 The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but
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70 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
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71 or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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72 for more details.
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74 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
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75 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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76 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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78 As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and
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79 embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this
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80 font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the
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81 GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any
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82 other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public
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83 License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your
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84 version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not
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85 wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
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88 Files and their suffixes
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91 The files with .sfd (Spline Font Database) are in FontForge's native format.
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92 Please use these if you plan to modify the font files.
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94 TrueType fonts for immediate consumption are the files with the .ttf
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95 (TrueType Font) suffix. These are ready to use in Xwindows based
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96 systems using FreeType, on Mac OS, and on older Windows systems.
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98 OpenType fonts (with suffix .otf) are for use in Windows Vista.
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99 Note that although they can be installed on Linux, but many applications
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100 in Linux still don't support them.
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103 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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104 Primoz Peterlin, <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
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105 Steve White <stevan.white@googlemail.com>
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107 Free UCS scalable fonts: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
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108 $Id: README,v 1.6 2008/12/25 12:51:41 Stevan_White Exp $