README - WINDOWS<br />
Gentium Release 1.02<br />
28 November 2005<br />
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Thank you for your interest in the Gentium fonts.<br />
We hope you find them useful!<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. It supports<br />
a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to<br />
all the Latin ranges of Unicode.<br />
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The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and<br />
visually attractive. The additional 'extended' Latin letters are designed to<br />
naturally harmonize with the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated<br />
with careful thought and attention to their use. Gentium also supports both<br />
ancient and modern Greek, including a number of alternate forms. It has won<br />
a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major international<br />
typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003).<br />
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Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters.<br />
It currently supports the following ranges of Unicode 3.0 (completely unless<br />
noted):<br />
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Range           Description<br />
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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, and will<br />
expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to cover Unicode 4.1. It<br />
will also include support for OpenType, Graphite and AAT smart font<br />
technologies.<br />
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Gentium is released under the SIL Open Font License.<br />
Gentium is a trademark of SIL International.<br />
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See the OFL and OFL-FAQ for details of the SIL Open Font License.<br />
See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases.<br />
See the QUOTES file to read the feedback received from Gentium users.<br />
See the GENTIUM-FAQ file for frequently asked questions and their answers<br />
	(such as why there are two families of fonts included).<br />
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TIPS<br />
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We cannot afford to offer free technical support. The font has, however, <br />
been through some testing on various platforms to be sure it works in most<br />
situations. In particular, it has been tested and shown to work on Windows<br />
2000 and Windows XP.<br />
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If you do find a problem, please do report it to <gentium AT sil DOT org>.<br />
We can't guarantee any direct response, but will try to fix reported bugs in<br />
future versions. Make sure you read through the Gentium FAQ.<br />
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Many problems can be solved, or at least explained, through an understanding<br />
of the encoding and use of the fonts. Here are some basic hints:<br />
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Encoding: <br />
The fonts are encoded according to Unicode, so your application must support<br />
Unicode text in order to access letters other than the standard alphabet.<br />
Most Windows applications provide basic Unicode support. You will, however,<br />
need some way of entering Unicode text into your document.<br />
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Keyboarding:<br />
Gentium does not include any keyboarding helps or utilities. It uses the<br />
built-in keyboards of the operating system. You will need to install the<br />
appropriate keyboard and input method for the characters of the language you<br />
wish to use. If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any<br />
system keyboard, the Keyman program (www.tavultesoft.com) can be helpful.<br />
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Another method of entering some symbols is provided by a few applications<br />
such as Adobe InDesign. They can display a glyph palette that shows all the<br />
glyphs (symbols) in a font and allow you to enter them by clicking on the<br />
glyph you want.<br />
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Rendering:<br />
Gentium also currently lacks any special font programming that can<br />
substitute one glyph for another or position glyphs in a 'smart' way, such<br />
as in OpenType, Apple Advanced Typography or SIL's Graphite. For example,<br />
although Gentium includes an 'ffl' ligature, there are no special routines<br />
in the font that will automatically substitute 'f'+'f'+'l' with 'ffl', but<br />
an individual application might provide that feature.<br />
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INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION<br />
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In Windows XP, open the Fonts control panel (Start, Control Panel,<br />
Appearance and Themes, then look in the upper left). The drag the font<br />
files (GenR102, GenI102, GenAR102, GenAI102) into the window - or choose<br />
File, Install New Font..., and navigate to the files.<br />
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CONTACT<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 />
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