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comparison clients/pychan_demo/fonts/freefont/README @ 228:756b895e1dab
Merged unicode-support back into trunk.
Now all GUI/visible strings should be unicode.
Internal strings unchanged.
Remember to use a font that actually has the desired codepoints.
Current default unicode policiy is 'ignore'.
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| date | Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:38:11 +0000 |
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| 1 -*-text-*- | |
| 2 GNU FreeFont | |
| 3 | |
| 4 The GNU FreeFont project aims to provide a useful set of free scalable | |
| 5 (i.e., OpenType) fonts covering as much as possible of the ISO 10646/Unicode | |
| 6 UCS (Universal Character Set). | |
| 7 | |
| 8 Statement of Purpose | |
| 9 -------------------- | |
| 10 | |
| 11 The practical reason for putting glyphs together in a single font face is | |
| 12 to conveniently mix symbols and characters from different writing systems, | |
| 13 without having to switch fonts. | |
| 14 | |
| 15 Coverage | |
| 16 -------- | |
| 17 | |
| 18 FreeFont covers the following character sets | |
| 19 | |
| 20 * ISO 8859 parts 1-15 | |
| 21 * CEN MES-3 European Unicode Subset | |
| 22 http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf | |
| 23 * IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 850, 852, 1250, 1252 and more | |
| 24 * Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4) | |
| 25 http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm | |
| 26 * KOI8-R and KOI8-RU | |
| 27 * DEC VT100 graphics symbols | |
| 28 * International Phonetic Alphabet | |
| 29 * Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian and Thai alphabets, | |
| 30 including Arabic presentation forms A/B | |
| 31 * mathematical symbols, including the whole TeX repertoire of symbols | |
| 32 * APL symbols | |
| 33 etc. | |
| 34 | |
| 35 Editing | |
| 36 ------- | |
| 37 | |
| 38 The free outline font editor, George Williams's FontForge | |
| 39 <http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/> is used for editing the fonts. | |
| 40 | |
| 41 Design Issues | |
| 42 ------------- | |
| 43 | |
| 44 Which font shapes should be made? Historical style terms like Renaissance | |
| 45 or Baroque letterforms cannot be applied beyond Latin/Cyrillic/Greek | |
| 46 scripts to any greater extent than Kufi or Nashki can be applied beyond | |
| 47 Arabic script; "italic" is really only meaningful for Latin letters. | |
| 48 | |
| 49 However, most modern writing systems have typographic formulations for | |
| 50 contrasting uniform and modulated character stroke widths, and have some | |
| 51 history with "oblique", faces. Since the advent of the typewriter, most | |
| 52 have developed a typographic style with uniform-width characters. | |
| 53 | |
| 54 Accordingly, the FreeFont family has one monospaced - FreeMono - and two | |
| 55 proportional faces (one with uniform stroke - FreeSans - and one with | |
| 56 modulated stroke - FreeSerif). | |
| 57 | |
| 58 To make text from different writing systems look good side-by-side, each | |
| 59 FreeFont face is meant to contain characters of similar style and weight. | |
| 60 | |
| 61 Licensing | |
| 62 --------- | |
| 63 | |
| 64 Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | |
| 65 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published | |
| 66 by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
| 67 (at your option) any later version. | |
| 68 | |
| 69 The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but | |
| 70 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY | |
| 71 or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License | |
| 72 for more details. | |
| 73 | |
| 74 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along | |
| 75 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., | |
| 76 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. | |
| 77 | |
| 78 As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and | |
| 79 embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this | |
| 80 font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the | |
| 81 GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any | |
| 82 other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public | |
| 83 License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your | |
| 84 version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not | |
| 85 wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. | |
| 86 | |
| 87 | |
| 88 Files and their suffixes | |
| 89 ------------------------ | |
| 90 | |
| 91 The files with .sfd (Spline Font Database) are in FontForge's native format. | |
| 92 Please use these if you plan to modify the font files. | |
| 93 | |
| 94 TrueType fonts for immediate consumption are the files with the .ttf | |
| 95 (TrueType Font) suffix. These are ready to use in Xwindows based | |
| 96 systems using FreeType, on Mac OS, and on older Windows systems. | |
| 97 | |
| 98 OpenType fonts (with suffix .otf) are for use in Windows Vista. | |
| 99 Note that although they can be installed on Linux, but many applications | |
| 100 in Linux still don't support them. | |
| 101 | |
| 102 | |
| 103 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 104 Primoz Peterlin, <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si> | |
| 105 Steve White <stevan.white@googlemail.com> | |
| 106 | |
| 107 Free UCS scalable fonts: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ | |
| 108 $Id: README,v 1.6 2008/12/25 12:51:41 Stevan_White Exp $ |