| 1 | -*- mode:text; coding:utf-8; -*-
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| 2 | GNU FreeFont Credits
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| 3 | ====================
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| 4 |
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| 5 | This file lists contributors and contributions to the GNU FreeFont project.
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| 6 |
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| 7 |
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| 8 | * URW++ Design & Development GmbH <http://www.urwpp.de/>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the
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| 11 | Ghostscript project <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>, to be available
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| 12 | under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL).
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| 13 |
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| 14 | Basic Latin (U+0041-U+007A)
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| 15 | Latin-1 Supplement (U+00C0-U+00FF)
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| 16 | Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F)
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| 17 | Spacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0-U+02FF)
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| 18 | Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF)
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| 19 | Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F)
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| 20 | Dingbats (U+2700-U+27BF)
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| 21 |
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| 22 |
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| 23 | * Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John
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| 24 | Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting
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| 27 | system, <http://omega.enstb.org/>. Omega is an extension of TeX.
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| 28 | Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities.
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| 29 | In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide,
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| 30 | instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX.
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| 31 | Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses
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| 32 | programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform
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| 33 | contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode
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| 34 | standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make
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| 35 | it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages,
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| 36 | like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but
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| 37 | will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as
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| 38 | native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family)
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| 39 | and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript
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| 40 | format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families.
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| 41 | Omega fonts are available subject to GPL
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| 42 |
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| 43 | Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
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| 44 | IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
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| 45 | Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
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| 46 | Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
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| 47 | Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
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| 48 | Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF)
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| 49 | Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF)
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| 50 | Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF)
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| 51 | Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF)
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| 52 |
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| 53 | Current info: <http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=omega>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | * Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to
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| 58 | the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts,
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| 59 | <ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/>. The fonts are available under GPL.
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| 60 |
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| 61 | Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F)
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| 62 | Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
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| 63 |
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| 64 |
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| 65 | * Wadalab Kanji Comittee
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| 66 |
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| 67 | Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together
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| 68 | a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms:
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| 69 | Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files are
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| 70 | written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into
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| 71 | Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji
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| 72 | Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now
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| 73 | found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering
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| 74 | and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo
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| 75 | <ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/>.
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| 76 |
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| 77 | Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F)
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| 78 | Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF)
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| 79 |
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| 80 |
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| 81 | * Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols
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| 84 | designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the
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| 85 | documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The
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| 86 | Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts
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| 87 | for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < ,
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| 88 | etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX
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| 89 | fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times
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| 90 | fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of
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| 91 | that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts."
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| 92 | TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license (GPL).
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| 93 | <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts/>.
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| 94 |
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| 95 | Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF)
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| 96 | Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF)
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| 97 |
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| 98 |
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| 99 | * Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org>
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| 100 |
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| 101 | Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, available on
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| 102 | <ftp://ftp.hellug.gr/pub/unix/linux/GREEK/fonts/greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz>.
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| 103 | The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in
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| 104 | FreeSans and FreeMono.
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| 105 |
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| 106 | Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for
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| 107 | educational or commercial purposes. All derived works should include
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| 108 | this paragraph. If you want to change something please let me have
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| 109 | your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next
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| 110 | version. You can also send comments etc to the above address."
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| 111 |
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| 112 | Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
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| 113 |
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| 114 |
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| 115 | * Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich
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| 116 |
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| 117 | In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of
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| 118 | glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and
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| 119 | slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU
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| 120 | intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at
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| 121 | <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/>.
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| 122 |
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| 123 | Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F)
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| 124 |
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| 125 | * Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs
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| 128 | (without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under
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| 129 | the XFree86 license at <http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/>.
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| 130 |
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| 131 | Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>. All Rights Reserved.
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| 132 |
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| 133 | Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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| 134 | a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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| 135 | "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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| 136 | without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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| 137 | distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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| 138 | permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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| 139 | the following conditions:
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| 140 |
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| 141 | The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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| 142 | included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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| 143 |
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| 144 | THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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| 145 | EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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| 146 | MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
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| 147 | IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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| 148 | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
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| 149 | ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
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| 150 | OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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| 151 |
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| 152 | Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be
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| 153 | used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
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| 154 | dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
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| 155 | S.R.Haque.
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| 156 |
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| 157 | Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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| 158 |
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| 159 |
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| 160 | * Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com>
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| 161 |
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| 162 | Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually
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| 163 | compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on
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| 164 | <http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On
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| 165 | 2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for
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| 166 | non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license."
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| 167 |
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| 168 | Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
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| 169 |
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| 170 |
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| 171 | * Mohamed Ishan <ishan AT mitf.f2s.com>
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| 172 |
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| 173 | Mohamed Ishan has started a Thaana Unicode Project
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| 174 | <http://thaana.sourceforge.net/> and among other things created a
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| 175 | couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license.
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| 176 |
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| 177 | Thaana (U+0780-U+07BF)
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| 178 |
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| 179 |
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| 180 | * Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com> (*)
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| 181 |
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| 182 | Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he
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| 183 | states on his web page <http://members.tripod.com/~sushantdash/>:
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| 184 | "Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No
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| 185 | copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel
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| 186 | free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for
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| 187 | people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters
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| 188 | home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya
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| 189 | fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)."
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| 190 |
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| 191 | Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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| 192 |
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| 193 |
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| 194 | * Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com>
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| 195 |
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| 196 | Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha <http://www.bharatbhasha.net/> -
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| 197 | an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes
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| 198 | etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and
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| 199 | Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages
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| 200 | Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to
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| 201 | users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian
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| 202 | languages."
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| 203 |
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| 204 | Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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| 205 | Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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| 206 | Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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| 207 | Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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| 208 |
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| 209 |
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| 210 | * Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com>
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| 211 |
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| 212 | Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type
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| 213 | 1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>.
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| 214 | Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs.
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| 215 | Available under the GNU General Public License.
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| 216 |
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| 217 | Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
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| 218 |
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| 219 |
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| 220 | * Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey
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| 221 | <apandey AT u.washington.edu>
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| 222 |
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| 223 | In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The
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| 224 | Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available
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| 225 | under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington
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| 226 | University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can
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| 227 | be found on CTAN, <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>. I
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| 228 | converted the font to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace
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| 229 | program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
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| 230 | redundant control points with PfaEdit.
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| 231 |
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| 232 | Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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| 233 |
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| 234 |
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| 235 | * Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com>
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| 236 |
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| 237 | In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font,
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| 238 | available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license
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| 239 | says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are
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| 240 | for non-profit use only."
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| 241 |
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| 242 | Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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| 243 |
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| 244 |
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| 245 | * Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl>
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| 246 |
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| 247 | Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a
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| 248 | set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as
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| 249 | uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and
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| 250 | modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to
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| 251 | release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this
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| 252 | notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN,
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| 253 | <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and
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| 254 | <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>.
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| 255 |
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| 256 | Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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| 257 | Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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| 258 |
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| 259 |
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| 260 | * Thomas Ridgeway <> (*)
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| 261 |
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| 262 | Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center,
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| 263 | Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil
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| 264 | metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over
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| 265 | the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN,
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| 266 | <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/tamil/wntamil/>.
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| 267 |
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| 268 | Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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| 269 |
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| 270 |
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| 271 | * Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
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| 272 | Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Olaf
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| 273 | Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen Metzinger <?>
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| 274 |
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| 275 | Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations
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| 276 | of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic
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| 277 | metafonts, found on
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| 278 | <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also
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| 279 | maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project,
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| 280 | <http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>,
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| 281 | and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The current
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| 282 | version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I
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| 283 | converted the fonts to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace-A
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| 284 | program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
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| 285 | redundant control points with PfaEdit.
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| 286 |
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| 287 | Ethiopic (U+1200-U+137F)
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| 288 |
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| 289 |
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| 290 | * Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net>
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| 291 |
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| 292 | In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing
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| 293 | Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of
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| 294 | Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with
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| 295 | URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono
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| 296 | L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See
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| 297 | also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>.
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| 298 |
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| 299 | Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
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| 300 |
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| 301 |
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| 302 | * Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis AT panayotis.com>
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| 303 |
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| 304 | Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek
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| 305 | Extended area.
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| 306 |
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| 307 | Greek Extended (U+1F00-U+1FFF)
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| 308 |
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| 309 |
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| 310 | * Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged
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| 313 | with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform
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| 314 | scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed
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| 315 | a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed
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| 316 | from the "Carlo Ator" font freely downloadable from
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| 317 | <http://www.aacf.asso.fr/>. Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing
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| 318 | spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of
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| 319 | subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers.
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| 320 |
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| 321 | Syriac (U+0700-U+074A)
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| 322 | Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F)
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| 323 | Braille (U+2800-U+28FF)
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| 324 |
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| 325 |
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| 326 | * M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com>
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| 327 |
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| 328 | M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti
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| 329 | Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released
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| 330 | a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati,
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| 331 | Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi)
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| 332 | under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts
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| 333 | from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site
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| 334 | (http://www.gnu.org.in/akruti-fonts/) or from the Akruti website.
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| 335 |
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| 336 | For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts,
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| 337 | please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com.
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| 338 |
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| 339 | Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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| 340 | Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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| 341 | Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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| 342 | Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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| 343 | Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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| 344 | Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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| 345 | Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
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| 346 | Kannada (U+0C80-U+0CFF)
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| 347 | Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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| 348 |
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| 349 |
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| 350 | * DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt
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| 351 | <nlevitt AT columbia.edu>
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| 352 |
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| 353 | Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site
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| 354 | <http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or,
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| 355 | precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence Produced by DMS
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| 356 | Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font
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| 357 | comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode.
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| 358 |
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| 359 | These glyphs were later replaced by those from the LKLUG font
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| 360 | <http://www.lug.lk/fonts/lklug>
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| 361 |
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| 362 | Finally the range was completely replaced by glyphs from the sinh TeX
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| 363 | font, with much help and advice from Harshula Jayasuriya.
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| 364 |
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| 365 | Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
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| 366 |
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| 367 |
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| 368 | * Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com>
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| 369 |
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| 370 | Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic
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| 371 | glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of
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| 372 | the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X,
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| 373 | <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>.
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| 374 |
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| 375 | Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
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| 376 |
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| 377 |
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| 378 | * Denis Jacquerye <moyogo AT gmail.com>
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| 379 |
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| 380 | Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the
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| 381 | Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges.
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| 382 |
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| 383 | Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
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| 384 | IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
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| 385 |
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| 386 |
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| 387 | * K.H. Hussain <hussain AT kfri.org> and R. Chitrajan
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| 388 |
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| 389 | `Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara Vedi,
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| 390 | a team of socially committed information technology professionals and
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| 391 | philologists, has applied developments in computer technology and desktop
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| 392 | publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language from the disorder,
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| 393 | fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered since the attempt to adapt
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| 394 | the Malayalam script for using with a regular mechanical typewriter, which
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| 395 | took place in 1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute
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| 396 | has released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required
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| 397 | to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the
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| 398 | glyphs in the OpenType table.
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| 399 |
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| 400 | In 2008, the Malayalam ranges in FreeSerif were updated under the advise
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| 401 | and supervision of Hiran Venugopalan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing,
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| 402 | to reflect the revised edition Rachana_04.
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| 403 |
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| 404 | Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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| 405 |
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| 406 |
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| 407 | * Solaiman Karim <solaiman AT ekushey.org>
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| 408 |
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| 409 | Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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| 410 |
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| 411 | Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and
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| 412 | released them under GNU GPL on <http://www.ekushey.org>.
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| 413 |
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| 414 |
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| 415 | * Sonali Sonania <sonalisonania AT gmail.com> and Monika Shah
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| 416 | <monikapatira AT gmail.com>
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| 417 |
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| 418 | Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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| 419 | Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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| 420 |
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| 421 | Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101,Mahalakshmi
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| 422 | Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore
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| 423 | 560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai,
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| 424 | lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali
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| 425 | Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released
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| 426 | under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii
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| 427 | Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC
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| 428 | Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by
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| 429 | TDIL, Govt. of India. Contact:monika_shah AT lycos.com,
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| 430 | sonalisonania AT yahoo.com, jitendras AT vsnl.com, alka AT ncst.ernet.in.
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| 431 | website: www.janabhaaratii.org.in.
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| 432 |
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| 433 |
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| 434 | * Pravin Satpute <pravin_ind21 AT hotmail.com>, Bageshri Salvi
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| 435 | <sbagrshri AT yahoo.co.in>, Rahul Bhalerao <rahul_pb_india AT
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| 436 | yahoo.com> and Sandeep Shedmake <surgs2k47 AT yahoo.co.in>
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| 437 |
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| 438 | Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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| 439 | Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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| 440 | Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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| 441 | Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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| 442 | Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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| 443 |
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| 444 | In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two
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| 445 | Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font
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| 446 | belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak
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| 447 | Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation
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| 448 | of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti
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| 449 | and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard. You can
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| 450 | download the font files (released under GNU/GPL License) from
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| 451 | http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/font.htm
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| 452 |
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| 453 |
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| 454 | * Kulbir Singh Thind
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| 455 |
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| 456 | Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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| 457 |
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| 458 | Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts,
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| 459 | AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU
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| 460 | Generel Public Licens from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center,
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| 461 | http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/.
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| 462 |
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| 463 |
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| 464 | * Gia Shervashidze <giasher AT telenet.ge>
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| 465 |
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| 466 | Georgian (U+10A0-U+10FF)
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| 467 |
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| 468 | Starting in mid-1990s, Gia Shervashidze designed many
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| 469 | Unicode-compliant Georgian fonts: Times New Roman Georgian, Arial
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| 470 | Georgian, Courier New Georgian. His work on Georgian localization can
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| 471 | be reached at http://www.gia.ge/.
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| 472 |
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| 473 |
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| 474 | * PrimoÅŸ Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
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| 475 |
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| 476 | PrimoÅŸ Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin
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| 477 | Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and
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| 478 | created the following UCS blocks:
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| 479 |
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| 480 | Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
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| 481 | IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
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| 482 | Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF)
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| 483 | Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F)
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| 484 | Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F)
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| 485 | Geometrical Shapes (U+25A0-U+25FF)
|
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| 486 |
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| 487 | * Mark Williamson
|
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| 488 |
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| 489 | Made the MPH 2 Damase font, from which
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| 490 | Hanunóo (U+1720-U+173F)
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| 491 | Buginese (U+1A00-U+1A1F)
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| 492 | Tai Le (U+1950-U+197F)
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| 493 | Ugaritic (U+10380-U+1039F)
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| 494 | Old Persian (U+103A0-U+103DF)
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| 495 |
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| 496 | * Jacob Poon
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| 497 |
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| 498 | Submitted a very thorough survey of glyph problems and other suggestions.
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| 499 |
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| 500 | * Alexey Kryukov
|
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| 501 |
|
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| 502 | Made the TemporaLCGUni fonts, based on the URW++ fonts, from which at one
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| 503 | point FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek, was drawn. He also provided
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| 504 | valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting.
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| 505 |
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| 506 | * George Douros
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| 507 |
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| 508 | The creator of several fonts focusing on ancient scripts and symbols.
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| 509 | Many of the glyphs are created by making outlines from scanned images
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| 510 | of ancient sources.
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| 511 |
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| 512 | Aegean: Phoenecian
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| 513 | Analecta: Gothic (U+10330-U+1034F)
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| 514 | Musical: Byzantine & Western
|
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| 515 | Unicode: many Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical,
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| 516 | supplemental Symbols, and Mathematical Alphanumeric symbols,
|
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| 517 | Mah Jong, and the outline of the Domino.
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| 518 |
|
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| 519 | * Daniel Johnson
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| 520 |
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| 521 | Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with
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| 522 | the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to
|
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| 523 | fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. Then he made Unified Canadian
|
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| 524 | Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono! And never to be
|
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| 525 | outdone by himself, then did UCAS Extended and Osmanya.... What next?
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| 526 |
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| 527 | Armenian (serif) (U+0530-U+058F)
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| 528 | Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF)
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| 529 | Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (U+1400-U+167F)
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| 530 | UCAS Extended (U+18B0-U+18F5)
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| 531 | Kayah Li (U+A900-U+A92F)
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| 532 | Tifinagh (U+2D30-U+2D7F)
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| 533 | Vai (U+A500-U+A62B)
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| 534 | Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters) (U+A720-U+A7FF)
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| 535 | Osmanya (U+10480-U+104a7)
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| 536 |
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| 537 | * Yannis Haralambous and Wellcome Institute
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| 538 |
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| 539 | In 1994, The Wellcome Library
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| 540 | The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
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| 541 | 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England.
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| 542 | commissioned Mr. Haralambous to produce a Sinhalese font for them.
|
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| 543 |
|
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| 544 | We have received 03/09 official notice from Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy
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| 545 | for the Wellcome Library, that Yannis' font could be included in GNU
|
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| 546 | FreeFont under its GNU license.
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| 547 |
|
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| 548 | Thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, for providing us with feedback and contacts
|
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| 549 | to repsonsible people at the Trust.
|
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| 550 |
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| 551 | Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
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| 552 |
|
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| 553 | * The Sinhala font project http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/
|
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| 554 |
|
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| 555 | The Sinhala font project has taken the glyphs from Yannis Haralambous'
|
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| 556 | Sinhala font, to produce a Unicode TrueType font, LKLUG. These glyphs
|
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| 557 | were for a while included in FreeFont.
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| 558 |
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| 559 | Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
|
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| 560 |
|
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| 561 | * Steve White <stevan_white AT googlemail.com>
|
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| 562 |
|
|---|
| 563 | Filled in a lot of missing characters, got some font features working,
|
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| 564 | left fingerprints almost everywhere, and is responsible for these blocks:
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| 565 |
|
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| 566 | Glagolitic (U+2C00-U+2C5F)
|
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| 567 | Coptic (U+2C80-U+2CFF)
|
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| 568 |
|
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| 569 | * Pavel Skrylev is responsible for
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| 570 | Cyrillic Extended-A (U+2DEO-U+2DFF)
|
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| 571 | as well as many of the additions to
|
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| 572 | Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640-U+A65F)
|
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| 573 |
|
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| 574 | Notes:
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| 575 |
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| 576 | *: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has
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| 577 | not yet replied and agreed on their work being used in part of
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| 578 | this glyph collection.
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| 579 |
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| 580 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 581 | $Id: CREDITS,v 1.28 2010/09/11 13:24:11 Stevan_White Exp $
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