[44] | 1 | FONTLOG
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| 2 | Gentium font family
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| 3 | ========================
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| 4 |
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| 5 |
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| 6 | This file provides detailed information on the Gentium family of fonts. This
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| 7 | information should be distributed along with the Gentium fonts and any
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| 8 | derivative works.
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| 9 |
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| 10 |
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| 11 | Basic Font Information
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| 12 | ----------------------
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| 13 |
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| 14 | Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family
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| 15 | designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use
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| 16 | the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design
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| 17 | is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually
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| 18 | attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design"
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| 19 | in two major international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001),
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| 20 | TDC2003 (2003).
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| 21 |
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| 22 | Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters. The
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| 23 | additional 'extended' Latin letters are designed to naturally harmonize with
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| 24 | the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated with careful thought and
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| 25 | attention to their use. Gentium also supports both ancient and modern Greek,
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| 26 | including a number of alternate forms. It currently supports the following
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| 27 | ranges of Unicode 3.0 (completely unless noted):
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| 28 |
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| 29 | Range Description
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| 30 | U+0020-U+007F Basic Latin
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| 31 | U+00A0-U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement
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| 32 | U+0100-U+017F Latin Extended-A
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| 33 | U+0180-U+021F Latin Extended-B
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| 34 | U+0222-U+0233 Latin Extended-B (continued)
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| 35 | U+0250-U+02AD IPA Extensions
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| 36 | U+02B0-U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters
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| 37 | U+0300-U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks
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| 38 | U+0370-U+03D5 Greek (not including archaic or Coptic)
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| 39 | U+1E00-U+1EFF Latin Extended Additional
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| 40 | U+1F00-U+1FFF Greek Extended
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| 41 | U+2000-U+203A General Punctuation (partial)
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| 42 | U+2070-U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts
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| 43 | U+20A0-U+20CF Currency Symbols (partial)
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| 44 | U+2100-U+214F Letterlike Symbols (only a couple)
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| 45 |
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| 46 | Gentium Regular also includes some Cyrillic glyphs, but they are only early
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| 47 | drafts. A future version will include a completely revised set, including
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| 48 | italic, and will expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Unicode
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| 49 | 4.1.
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| 50 |
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| 51 |
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| 52 | ChangeLog
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| 53 | ---------
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| 54 | (This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)
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| 55 |
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| 56 | 28 Nov 2005 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.02
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| 57 | - Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License
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| 58 | - Included FontLab source files
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| 59 | - Fixed some duplicate PostScript glyphs names
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| 60 | - Fixed italic angle
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| 61 |
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| 62 | 19 Sep 2003 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.01
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| 63 | - Maintenance release focused on changing internal font
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| 64 | - Information to reflect the changeover to an SIL project
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| 65 | - There is only one bug fix - the Greek mu PS name was changed to try and fix
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| 66 | a display/printing problem. There is still no manual hinting
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| 67 |
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| 68 | 16 Sep 2002 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.00
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| 69 | - First public release
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| 70 | - No manual hinting is included in this version. Some has been done - with
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| 71 | good results - but is not yet complete enough.
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| 72 |
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| 73 |
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| 74 | Information for Contributors
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| 75 | ----------------------------
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| 76 |
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| 77 | The main point of version 1.02 is to enable modification via the OFL and to
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| 78 | establish a means for people to contribute to the project. For information
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| 79 | on what you're allowed to change or modify, consult the OFL and OFL-FAQ. The
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| 80 | OFL-FAQ also gives a very general rationale regarding why you would want to
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| 81 | contribute to the project.
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| 82 |
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| 83 | Anyone can make their own modified version of Gentium (using a different
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| 84 | name), but SIL International will continue to maintain and develop the
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| 85 | canonical version of the Gentium fonts. As the package maintainer, we warmly
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| 86 | welcome contributions. Here are some things to keep in mind:
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| 87 |
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| 88 | Format: We are open to contributions in various formats, but if you want to
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| 89 | maximise the chances of us including your work, please make it available to
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| 90 | us (via email or a URL) as either a FontLab database (preferred) or a
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| 91 | PostScript Type 1 (or OT-CFF) font.
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| 92 |
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| 93 | Source files: For the first time, we're including FontLab databases used in
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| 94 | developing the fonts. The current fonts, however, were not solely built from
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| 95 | this FontLab database, so a simple "Generate Font" will not give you an
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| 96 | identical result. These databases are provided not as canonical source but
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| 97 | as an aid to anyone who might find it useful to have access to the
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| 98 | PostScript-style curves before they were turned into TrueType ones. BTW -
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| 99 | although only two databases are provided, they contain all the Alt glyphs.
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| 100 | In the future we may be making our 'source' available in three formats:
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| 101 | OpenType (TrueType), OT-CFF, and FontLab.
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| 102 |
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| 103 | Copyright attribution: If you submit something for inclusion in the main
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| 104 | Gentium fonts, we will ask you to affirm that it is your original work, and
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| 105 | ask you to assign the copyright of your work to SIL International. This is
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| 106 | to ensure that future releases can be made under improved versions of the
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| 107 | OFL without needing to track you down for further permission. This follows
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| 108 | the same principle used by the FSF. Keep in mind that we are a
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| 109 | not-for-profit organization committed to free/libre and open source
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| 110 | software, and that any contributions incorporated in the fonts will always
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| 111 | be available under the OFL or a similar license.
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| 112 |
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| 113 | Quality: Because we want to be able to guarantee a high level of quality for
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| 114 | the primary Gentium fonts, we will review submissions carefully. Please
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| 115 | don't be discouraged if we do not include a submission for this reason, or
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| 116 | ask you to make specific revisions.
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| 117 |
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| 118 | What types of contributions are welcomed now (some more than others):
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| 119 | - Old style figures
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| 120 | - Small caps (although we would want such done for *all* caps, not just A-Z)
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| 121 | - Specifications for smart Greek code (write us about this)
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| 122 | - Coptic
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| 123 | - Historic/Archaic Cyrillic
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| 124 | - Glyphs used for ancient Greek text study (but not alphabetic ones, like
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| 125 | the digamma)
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| 126 | - Mathematical glyphs
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| 127 | - OpenType code and glyphs for on-the-fly fraction creation
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| 128 | - Additional scripts (Armenian, etc.?), and any needed OT/Graphite/AAT code
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| 129 | - Other things that we may have once told you we didn't have time to do :-)
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| 130 |
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| 131 | What is not needed at this point:
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| 132 | - Revisions to the basic letters or their spacing
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| 133 | - Cyrillic revisions or additions. These are already in process
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| 134 | - Other weights (Bold, Bold italic). We already have some work done on this
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| 135 | - Alphabetic Ancient Greek glyphs (digamma, etc.). These are done and are
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| 136 | waiting for the next release
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| 137 | - Unicode 4.1 additions for Latin. We have these already in the pipeline
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| 138 | - General Latin/Cyrillic OpenType/Graphite/AAT code - we already have this
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| 139 | (see our Doulos SIL project)
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| 140 | - Kerning - there is some in place
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| 141 | - Hinting - although if you could offer to do some hinting, let us know :-)
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| 142 |
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| 143 | So why didn't we include some of this in this release? The only change for
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| 144 | 1.02 is the new licensing model. We thought that it was important to get a
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| 145 | revised font out before we had completed the next big revision. We also
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| 146 | didn't want to hold up release until we had everything neat and tidy :-)
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| 147 |
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| 148 | When submissions will be included: We hope to have a revised version of the
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| 149 | Regular and Italic fonts (including full Cyrillic) completed by mid-2006. To
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| 150 | do this we will need submissions early in the year. Other weights will
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| 151 | follow after that.
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| 152 |
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| 153 | WARNINGS: The details of the source files and build procedures will be
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| 154 | changing radically before the next release, so do not spend too much time
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| 155 | working on systems that depend on the current FontLab database information.
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| 156 | Also - the Cyrillic glyphs in the regular font are very early prototypes and
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| 157 | will be changing completely. So don't bother to modify them!
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| 158 |
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| 159 |
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| 160 | Acknowledgements
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| 161 | ----------------
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| 162 | (Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications
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| 163 | be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description
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| 164 | (D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)
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| 165 |
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| 166 | N: Victor Gaultney
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| 167 | E: victor_gaultney@sil.org
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| 168 | W: http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/
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| 169 | D: Original Designer of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs
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| 170 |
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| 171 | The Gentium project is maintained by SIL International.
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| 172 |
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| 173 | For more information please visit the Gentium page on SIL International's
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| 174 | Computers and Writing systems website:
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| 175 | http://scripts.sil.org/gentium
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| 176 |
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| 177 | Or send an email to <gentium AT sil DOT org>
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