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diff --git a/h-source/External/Fonts/FreeFont/README b/h-source/External/Fonts/FreeFont/README deleted file mode 100755 index 60e67f2..0000000 --- a/h-source/External/Fonts/FreeFont/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,108 +0,0 @@ --*-text-*- - GNU FreeFont - -The GNU FreeFont project aims to provide a useful set of free scalable -(i.e., OpenType) fonts covering as much as possible of the ISO 10646/Unicode -UCS (Universal Character Set). - -Statement of Purpose --------------------- - -The practical reason for putting glyphs together in a single font face is -to conveniently mix symbols and characters from different writing systems, -without having to switch fonts. - -Coverage --------- - -FreeFont covers the following character sets - -* ISO 8859 parts 1-15 -* CEN MES-3 European Unicode Subset - http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf -* IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 850, 852, 1250, 1252 and more -* Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4) - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm -* KOI8-R and KOI8-RU -* DEC VT100 graphics symbols -* International Phonetic Alphabet -* Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian and Thai alphabets, - including Arabic presentation forms A/B -* mathematical symbols, including the whole TeX repertoire of symbols -* APL symbols - etc. - -Editing -------- - -The free outline font editor, George Williams's FontForge -<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/> is used for editing the fonts. - -Design Issues -------------- - -Which font shapes should be made? Historical style terms like Renaissance -or Baroque letterforms cannot be applied beyond Latin/Cyrillic/Greek -scripts to any greater extent than Kufi or Nashki can be applied beyond -Arabic script; "italic" is really only meaningful for Latin letters. - -However, most modern writing systems have typographic formulations for -contrasting uniform and modulated character stroke widths, and have some -history with "oblique", faces. Since the advent of the typewriter, most -have developed a typographic style with uniform-width characters. - -Accordingly, the FreeFont family has one monospaced - FreeMono - and two -proportional faces (one with uniform stroke - FreeSans - and one with -modulated stroke - FreeSerif). - -To make text from different writing systems look good side-by-side, each -FreeFont face is meant to contain characters of similar style and weight. - -Licensing ---------- - -Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or -modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published -by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or -(at your option) any later version. - -The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but -WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY -or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License -for more details. - -You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along -with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., -51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. - -As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and -embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this -font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the -GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any -other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public -License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your -version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not -wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. - - -Files and their suffixes ------------------------- - -The files with .sfd (Spline Font Database) are in FontForge's native format. -Please use these if you plan to modify the font files. - -TrueType fonts for immediate consumption are the files with the .ttf -(TrueType Font) suffix. These are ready to use in Xwindows based -systems using FreeType, on Mac OS, and on older Windows systems. - -OpenType fonts (with suffix .otf) are for use in Windows Vista. -Note that although they can be installed on Linux, but many applications -in Linux still don't support them. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Primoz Peterlin, <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si> -Steve White <stevan.white@googlemail.com> - -Free UCS scalable fonts: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ -$Id: README,v 1.6 2008/12/25 12:51:41 Stevan_White Exp $ |