FONTLOG<br />
Gentium font family<br />
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This file provides detailed information on the Gentium family of fonts. This<br />
information should be distributed along with the Gentium fonts and any<br />
derivative works.<br />
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Basic Font Information<br />
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Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family<br />
designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use<br />
the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design<br />
is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually<br />
attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design"<br />
in two major international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001),<br />
TDC2003 (2003).<br />
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Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters. The<br />
additional 'extended' Latin letters are designed to naturally harmonize with<br />
the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated with careful thought and<br />
attention to their use. Gentium also supports both ancient and modern Greek,<br />
including a number of alternate forms. It currently supports the following<br />
ranges of Unicode 3.0 (completely unless noted):<br />
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Range           Description<br />
U+0020-U+007F   Basic Latin<br />
U+00A0-U+00FF   Latin-1 Supplement<br />
U+0100-U+017F   Latin Extended-A<br />
U+0180-U+021F   Latin Extended-B<br />
U+0222-U+0233   Latin Extended-B (continued)<br />
U+0250-U+02AD   IPA Extensions<br />
U+02B0-U+02FF   Spacing Modifier Letters<br />
U+0300-U+036F   Combining Diacritical Marks<br />
U+0370-U+03D5   Greek (not including archaic or Coptic)<br />
U+1E00-U+1EFF   Latin Extended Additional<br />
U+1F00-U+1FFF   Greek Extended<br />
U+2000-U+203A   General Punctuation (partial)<br />
U+2070-U+209F   Superscripts and Subscripts<br />
U+20A0-U+20CF   Currency Symbols (partial)<br />
U+2100-U+214F   Letterlike Symbols (only a couple)<br />
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Gentium Regular also includes some Cyrillic glyphs, but they are only early<br />
drafts. A future version will include a completely revised set, including<br />
italic, and will expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Unicode<br />
4.1.<br />
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ChangeLog<br />
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(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)<br />
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28 Nov 2005 (Victor Gaultney)  Gentium version 1.02<br />
- Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License<br />
- Included FontLab source files<br />
- Fixed some duplicate PostScript glyphs names<br />
- Fixed italic angle<br />
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19 Sep 2003 (Victor Gaultney)  Gentium version 1.01 <br />
- Maintenance release focused on changing internal font<br />
- Information to reflect the changeover to an SIL project<br />
- There is only one bug fix - the Greek mu PS name was changed to try and fix<br />
a display/printing problem. There is still no manual hinting<br />
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16 Sep 2002 (Victor Gaultney)  Gentium version 1.00<br />
- First public release<br />
- No manual hinting is included in this version. Some has been done - with<br />
good results - but is not yet complete enough.<br />
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Information for Contributors<br />
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The main point of version 1.02 is to enable modification via the OFL and to<br />
establish a means for people to contribute to the project. For information<br />
on what you're allowed to change or modify, consult the OFL and OFL-FAQ. The<br />
OFL-FAQ also gives a very general rationale regarding why you would want to<br />
contribute to the project.<br />
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Anyone can make their own modified version of Gentium (using a different<br />
name), but SIL International will continue to maintain and develop the<br />
canonical version of the Gentium fonts. As the package maintainer, we warmly<br />
welcome contributions. Here are some things to keep in mind:<br />
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Format: We are open to contributions in various formats, but if you want to<br />
maximise the chances of us including your work, please make it available to<br />
us (via email or a URL) as either a FontLab database (preferred) or a<br />
PostScript Type 1 (or OT-CFF) font.<br />
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Source files: For the first time, we're including FontLab databases used in<br />
developing the fonts. The current fonts, however, were not solely built from<br />
this FontLab database, so a simple "Generate Font" will not give you an<br />
identical result. These databases are provided not as canonical source but<br />
as an aid to anyone who might find it useful to have access to the<br />
PostScript-style curves before they were turned into TrueType ones. BTW -<br />
although only two databases are provided, they contain all the Alt glyphs.<br />
In the future we may be making our 'source' available in three formats:<br />
OpenType (TrueType), OT-CFF, and FontLab.<br />
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Copyright attribution: If you submit something for inclusion in the main<br />
Gentium fonts, we will ask you to affirm that it is your original work, and<br />
ask you to assign the copyright of your work to SIL International. This is<br />
to ensure that future releases can be made under improved versions of the<br />
OFL without needing to track you down for further permission. This follows<br />
the same principle used by the FSF. Keep in mind that we are a<br />
not-for-profit organization committed to free/libre and open source<br />
software, and that any contributions incorporated in the fonts will always<br />
be available under the OFL or a similar license.<br />
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Quality: Because we want to be able to guarantee a high level of quality for<br />
the primary Gentium fonts, we will review submissions carefully. Please<br />
don't be discouraged if we do not include a submission for this reason, or<br />
ask you to make specific revisions.<br />
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What types of contributions are welcomed now (some more than others):<br />
- Old style figures<br />
- Small caps (although we would want such done for *all* caps, not just A-Z)<br />
- Specifications for smart Greek code (write us about this)<br />
- Coptic<br />
- Historic/Archaic Cyrillic<br />
- Glyphs used for ancient Greek text study (but not alphabetic ones, like<br />
the digamma)<br />
- Mathematical glyphs<br />
- OpenType code and glyphs for on-the-fly fraction creation<br />
- Additional scripts (Armenian, etc.?), and any needed OT/Graphite/AAT code<br />
- Other things that we may have once told you we didn't have time to do :-)<br />
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What is not needed at this point:<br />
- Revisions to the basic letters or their spacing<br />
- Cyrillic revisions or additions. These are already in process<br />
- Other weights (Bold, Bold italic). We already have some work done on this<br />
- Alphabetic Ancient Greek glyphs (digamma, etc.). These are done and are<br />
waiting for the next release<br />
- Unicode 4.1 additions for Latin. We have these already in the pipeline<br />
- General Latin/Cyrillic OpenType/Graphite/AAT code - we already have this<br />
(see our Doulos SIL project)<br />
- Kerning - there is some in place<br />
- Hinting - although if you could offer to do some hinting, let us know :-)<br />
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So why didn't we include some of this in this release? The only change for<br />
1.02 is the new licensing model. We thought that it was important to get a<br />
revised font out before we had completed the next big revision. We also<br />
didn't want to hold up release until we had everything neat and tidy :-)<br />
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When submissions will be included: We hope to have a revised version of the<br />
Regular and Italic fonts (including full Cyrillic) completed by mid-2006. To<br />
do this we will need submissions early in the year. Other weights will<br />
follow after that.<br />
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WARNINGS: The details of the source files and build procedures will be<br />
changing radically before the next release, so do not spend too much time<br />
working on systems that depend on the current FontLab database information.<br />
Also - the Cyrillic glyphs in the regular font are very early prototypes and<br />
will be changing completely. So don't bother to modify them!<br />
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Acknowledgements<br />
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(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications<br />
be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description<br />
(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)<br />
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N: Victor Gaultney<br />
E: victor_gaultney@sil.org<br />
W: http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/<br />
D: Original Designer of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs<br />
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The Gentium project is maintained by SIL International.<br />
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For more information please visit the Gentium page on SIL International's<br />
Computers and Writing systems website:<br />
http://scripts.sil.org/gentium<br />
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Or send an email to <gentium AT sil DOT org><br />