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$Id: CREDITS,v 1.4 2003/03/27 08:40:03 peterlin Exp $
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This file lists the contributors and contributions to the free UCS
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scalable font project.
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# URW++ Design & Development GmbH <http://www.urwpp.de/>
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URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the
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Ghostscript project <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>, to be available
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under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Basic Latin (U+0041-U+007A)
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Latin-1 Supplement (U+00C0-U+00FF)
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Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F)
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Spacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0-U+02FF)
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Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF)
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Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F)
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Dingbats (U+2700-U+27BF)
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# Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John
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Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega
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typesetting system, <http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au/>. Omega is an
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extension of TeX. Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's
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multilingual abilities. In Omega all characters and pointers into
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data-structures are 16-bit wide, instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating
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many of the trivial limitations of TeX. Omega also allows multiple
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input and output character sets, and uses programmable filters to
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translate from one encoding to another, to perform contextual
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analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode
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standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not
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only make it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or
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complex languages, like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or
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Korean, in one document, but will also form the basis for future
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developments in other areas, such as native color support and
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hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) and UT2 (omah
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family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript format
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and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. (from the
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Omega WWW site). Omega fonts are available subject to GPL
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<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/omegafonts.html>.
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Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
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IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
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Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
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Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
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Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
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Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF)
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Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF)
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Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF)
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Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF)
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# Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru>
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Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to
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the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core
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fonts, <ftp:#ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/>. The fonts are available under
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GPL.
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Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F)
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Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
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# Wadalab Kanji Comittee
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Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together
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a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms:
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Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files are
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written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into
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Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji
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Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now
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found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering
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and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo
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<ftp:#ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/>.
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Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F)
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Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF)
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# Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu>
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Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols
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designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the
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documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The
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Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts
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for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < ,
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etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX
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fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times
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fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of
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that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts."
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TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license
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(GPL). Pointers to their location are available on
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<http://www.utdallas.edu/~ryoung/txfonts/>.
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Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF)
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Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF)
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# Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org>
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Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, available on
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<ftp:#ftp.hellug.gr/pub/unix/linux/GREEK/fonts/greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz>.
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The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in
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FreeSans and FreeMono.
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Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for
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educational or commercial purposes. All derived works should include
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this paragraph. If you want to change something please let me have
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your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next
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version. You can also send comments etc to the above address."
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Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
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# Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich
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In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of
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glyphs covering the Thai national standard NF3, in both upright and
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slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU
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intlfonts 1.2 package and is available on
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<ftp:#ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/> under GPL.
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Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F)
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# Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>
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Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs
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(without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under
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the XFree86 license at <http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/>.
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Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>. All Rights Reserved.
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
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IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
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ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
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OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be
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used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
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dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
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S.R.Haque.
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Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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# Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com>
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Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually
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compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on
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<http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On
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2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for
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non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license."
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Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
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# Mohamed Ishan <ishan AT mitf.f2s.com>
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Mohamed Ishan has started a Thaana Unicode Project
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<http://thaana.sourceforge.net/> and among other things created a
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couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license.
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Thaana (U+0780-U+07BF)
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# Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com> (*)
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Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he
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states on his web page <http://members.tripod.com/~sushantdash/>:
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"Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No
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copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel
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free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for
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people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters
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home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya
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fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)."
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Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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# Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com>
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Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha <http://www.bharatbhasha.net/> -
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an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes
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etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and
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Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages
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Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to
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users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian
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languages."
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Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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# Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com>
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Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type
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1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>.
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Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs.
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Available under the GNU General Public License.
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Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
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# Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey
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<apandey AT u.washington.edu>
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In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The
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Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available
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under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington
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University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can
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be found on CTAN, <ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>. I
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converted the font to Type 1 format using P<EFBFBD>ter Szab<EFBFBD>'s TeXtrace
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program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
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redundant control points with PfaEdit.
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Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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# Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com>
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In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font,
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available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license
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says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are
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for non-profit use only."
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Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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# Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl>
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Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a
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set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as
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uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and
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modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to
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release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this
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notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN,
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<ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and
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<ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>.
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Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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# Thomas Ridgeway <> (*)
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Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center,
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Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil
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metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over
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the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN,
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<ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/tamil/wntamil/>.
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Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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# Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
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Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Olaf
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Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen Metzinger <
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Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations
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of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic
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metafonts, found on
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<ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also
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maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project,
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<http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>,
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and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The current
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version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I
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converted the fonts to Type 1 format using P<EFBFBD>ter Szab<EFBFBD>'s TeXtrace
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program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
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redundant control points with PfaEdit.
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Ethiopic (U+1200-U+137F)
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# Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net>
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In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing
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Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of
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Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with
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URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono
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L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See
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also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>.
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Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
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# Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru>
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Vyacheslav Dikonov made a braille unicode font that could be merged
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with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform
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scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed
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a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed
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from the "Carlo Ator" font freely downloadable from
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<http://www.aacf.asso.fr/>. Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing
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spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of
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subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers.
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Syriac (U+0700-U+074A)
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Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F)
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Braille (U+2800-U+28FF)
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# M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com>
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M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti
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Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released
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a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati,
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Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi)
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under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts
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from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site
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(http://www.gnu.org.in/software/software.html#akruti) or from the
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Akruti website.
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For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts,
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please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com.
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Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
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Kannada (U+0C80-U+0CFF)
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Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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# DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt
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<nlevitt AT columbia.edu>
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Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site
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<http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or,
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precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence
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Produced by DMS
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Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font
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comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode.
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Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
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# Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com>
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Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic
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glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of
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the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X,
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<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>.
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Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
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# Primo<EFBFBD> Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
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Primo<EFBFBD> Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin
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Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and
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created the following UCS blocks:
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Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
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IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
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Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF)
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Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F)
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Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F)
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Geometrical Shapes (U+25A0-U+25FF)
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Notes:
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*: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has
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not yet replied and agreed on his/her work being used in part of
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this glyph collection.
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