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Omega is an extension of TeX. +Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities. +In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide, +instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX. +Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses +programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform +contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode +standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make +it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages, +like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but +will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as +native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) +and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript +format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. +Omega fonts are available subject to GPL + + Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) + IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) + Greek (U+0370-U+03FF) + Armenian (U+0530-U+058F) + Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF) + Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF) + Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF) + Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF) + Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF) + +Current info: <http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=omega> + +* Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru> + +Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to +the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts, +<ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/>. The fonts are available under GPL. + + Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F) + Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF) + + +* Wadalab Kanji Comittee + +Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together +a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms: +Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files are +written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into +Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji +Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now +found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering +and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo +<ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/>. + + Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F) + Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF) + + +* Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu> + +Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols +designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the +documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The +Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts +for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < , +etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX +fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times +fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of +that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts." +TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license (GPL). +<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts/>. + + Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) + Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF) + + +* Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org> + +Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, available on +<ftp://ftp.hellug.gr/pub/unix/linux/GREEK/fonts/greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz>. +The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in +FreeSans and FreeMono. + +Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for +educational or commercial purposes. All derived works should include +this paragraph. If you want to change something please let me have +your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next +version. You can also send comments etc to the above address." + + Greek (U+0370-U+03FF) + + +* Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich + +In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of +glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and +slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU +intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at +<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/>. + + Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F) + + +* Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org> + +Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs +(without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under +the XFree86 license at <http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/>. + +Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>. All Rights Reserved. + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining +a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the +"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including +without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, +distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to +permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to +the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be +included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, +EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF +MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. +IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER +LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, +ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR +OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. + +Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be +used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other +dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from +S.R.Haque. + + Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) + + +* Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com> + +Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually +compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on +<http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On +2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for +non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license." + + Armenian (U+0530-U+058F) + + +* Mohamed Ishan <ishan AT mitf.f2s.com> + +Mohamed Ishan has started a Thaana Unicode Project +<http://thaana.sourceforge.net/> and among other things created a +couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license. + + Thaana (U+0780-U+07BF) + + +* Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com> (*) + +Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he +states on his web page <http://members.tripod.com/~sushantdash/>: +"Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No +copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel +free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for +people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters +home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya +fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)." + + Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) + + +* Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com> + +Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha <http://www.bharatbhasha.net/> - +an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes +etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and +Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages +Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to +users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian +languages." + + Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) + Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) + Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) + Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) + + +* Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com> + +Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type +1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>. +Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs. +Available under the GNU General Public License. + + Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F) + + +* Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey + <apandey AT u.washington.edu> + +In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The +Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available +under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington +University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can +be found on CTAN, <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>. I +converted the font to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace +program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some +redundant control points with PfaEdit. + + Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) + + +* Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com> + +In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font, +available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license +says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are +for non-profit use only." + + Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) + + +* Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl> + +Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a +set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as +uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and +modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to +release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this +notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN, +<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and +<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>. + + Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) + Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) + + +* Thomas Ridgeway <> (*) + +Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center, +Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil +metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over +the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN, +<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/tamil/wntamil/>. + + Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) + + +* Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, + Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Olaf + Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen Metzinger <?> + +Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations +of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic +metafonts, found on +<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also +maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project, +<http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>, +and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The current +version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I +converted the fonts to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace-A +program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some +redundant control points with PfaEdit. + + Ethiopic (U+1200-U+137F) + + +* Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net> + +In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing +Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of +Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with +URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono +L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See +also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>. + + Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF) + + +* Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis AT panayotis.com> + +Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek +Extended area. + + Greek Extended (U+1F00-U+1FFF) + + +* Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru> + +Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged +with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform +scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed +a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed +from the "Carlo Ator" font freely downloadable from +<http://www.aacf.asso.fr/>. Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing +spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of +subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers. + + Syriac (U+0700-U+074A) + Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F) + Braille (U+2800-U+28FF) + + +* M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com> + +M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti +Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released +a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati, +Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi) +under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts +from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site +(http://www.gnu.org.in/akruti-fonts/) or from the Akruti website. + +For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts, +please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com. + + Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) + Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) + Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) + Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) + Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) + Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) + Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F) + Kannada (U+0C80-U+0CFF) + Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) + + +* DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt + <nlevitt AT columbia.edu> + +Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site +<http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or, +precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence
Produced by DMS +Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font +comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode. + + Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF) + + +* Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com> + +Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic +glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of +the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X, +<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>. + + Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF) + + +* Denis Jacquerye <moyogo AT gmail.com> + +Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the +Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges. + + Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) + IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) + + +* K.H. Hussain <hussain AT kfri.org> and R. Chitrajan + +`Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara Vedi, +a team of socially committed information technology professionals and +philologists, has applied developments in computer technology and desktop +publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language from the disorder, +fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered since the attempt to adapt +the Malayalam script for using with a regular mechanical typewriter, which +took place in 1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute +has released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required +to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the +glyphs in the OpenType table. + +In 2008, the Malayalam ranges in FreeSerif were updated under the advise +and supervision of Hiran Venugopalan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, +to reflect the revised edition Rachana_04. + + Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) + + +* Solaiman Karim <solaiman AT ekushey.org> + + Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) + +Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and +released them under GNU GPL on <http://www.ekushey.org>. + + +* Sonali Sonania <sonalisonania AT gmail.com> and Monika Shah + <monikapatira AT gmail.com> + + Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) + Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) + +Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101,Mahalakshmi +Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore +560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai, +lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali +Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released +under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii +Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC +Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by +TDIL, Govt. of India. Contact:monika_shah AT lycos.com, +sonalisonania AT yahoo.com, jitendras AT vsnl.com, alka AT ncst.ernet.in. +website: www.janabhaaratii.org.in. + + +* Pravin Satpute <pravin_ind21 AT hotmail.com>, Bageshri Salvi + <sbagrshri AT yahoo.co.in>, Rahul Bhalerao <rahul_pb_india AT + yahoo.com> and Sandeep Shedmake <surgs2k47 AT yahoo.co.in> + + Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) + Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) + Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) + Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) + Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) + +In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two +Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font +belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak +Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation +of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti +and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard. You can +download the font files (released under GNU/GPL License) from +http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/font.htm + + +* Kulbir Singh Thind + + Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) + +Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts, +AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU +Generel Public Licens from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center, +http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/. + + +* Gia Shervashidze <giasher AT telenet.ge> + + Georgian (U+10A0-U+10FF) + +Starting in mid-1990s, Gia Shervashidze designed many +Unicode-compliant Georgian fonts: Times New Roman Georgian, Arial +Georgian, Courier New Georgian. His work on Georgian localization can +be reached at http://www.gia.ge/. + + +* Primož Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si> + +Primož Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin +Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and +created the following UCS blocks: + + Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) + IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) + Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) + Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F) + Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F) + Geometrical Shapes (U+25A0-U+25FF) + +* Mark Williamson + +Made the MPH 2 Damase font, from which + Hanunóo (U+1720-U+173F) + Buginese (U+1A00-U+1A1F) + Tai Le (U+1950-U+197F) + Ugaritic (U+10380-U+1039F) + Old Persian (U+103A0-U+103DF) + +* Jacob Poon + +Submitted a very thorough survey of glyph problems and other suggestions. + +* Alexey Kryukov + +Made the TemporaLCGUni fonts, based on the URW++ fonts, from which at one +point FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek, was drawn. He also provided +valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting. + +* George Douros + +The creator of several fonts focusing on ancient scripts and symbols. +Many of the glyphs are created by making outlines from scanned images +of ancient sources. + + Aegean: Phoenecian + Analecta: Gothic (U+10330-U+1034F) + Musical: Byzantine & Western + Unicode: many Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical, + supplemental Symbols, and Mathematical Alphanumeric symbols, + Mah Jong, and the outline of the Domino. + +* Daniel Johnson + +Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with +the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to +fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. + Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF) + +Notes: + +*: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has + not yet replied and agreed on their work being used in part of + this glyph collection. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +$Id: CREDITS,v 1.23 2009/01/04 15:57:54 Stevan_White Exp $ |