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diff --git a/nx-X11/extras/fonts/ClearlyU/README b/nx-X11/extras/fonts/ClearlyU/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb11c8fe0 --- /dev/null +++ b/nx-X11/extras/fonts/ClearlyU/README @@ -0,0 +1,316 @@ +# +# Id: README,v 1.19 2002/11/22 23:11:31 mleisher Exp $ +# +# Copyright 2002 Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University +# +# 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 +# THE COMPUTING RESEARCH LAB OR NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY 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. +# + +Version: 1.9 +22 November 2002 + +This set of fonts provides a 12pt, 100dpi proportional font with many of +the glyphs needed for Unicode text. I call the typeface "ClearlyU" and +it was influenced by Donald Knuth's Computer Modern. + +The fonts together contain 9538 glyphs at the moment. This does not include +cuarabic12.bdf and cudevnag12.bdf which contain glyphs from cu12.bdf and and +cu-pua12.bdf. + +Information about this font and samples, are located at: + + http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu.html + +ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS +================ +Thanks to Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de> for finding spelling errors +in one of the Greek samples. + +Thanks to Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <theppitak@nectec.or.th> for his excellent +cleanup of the Thai glyphs, particularly the vowel and tone marks. + +Thanks to Ahmed Abdelali <ahmed@crl.nmsu.edu> for his help in improving the +Arabic glyphs. + +Thanks to Séamus Ó Ciardhuáin <seoc@cnds.ucd.ie> for a much cleaner version +of the Ogham glyphs. + +Thanks go to Daniel Yacob <yacob@ethiopiaonline.net> for a major cleanup of +the Ethiopic block glyphs! + +AUTHOR +====== +Mark Leisher <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu> + +CHANGES +======= + +CHANGES FROM 1.8 +---------------- + o Adjusted positioning of several math symbols. + + o Fixed the Hebrew FB39 glyph. + + o Added Hangul Jamo and Hangul Compatibility Jamo glyphs. + + o Changed the apostrophe and double quotes to the straight versions, and + fixed the grave accent to look right. + + o Added Koranic marks. + + o Made the Geometric Shapes a bit larger. + + o Cleaned up Control Pictures. + + o Added Miscellaneous Technical symbols. + + o Fixed a couple currency symbols. + + o Added Runes. + + o Added Ogham. + + o Adjusted the positioning of the Arabic decimal and thousands separator. + + o Changed some of the Greek glyphs to represent the trailing + ypogegrammeni. + + o Swapped the Greek phi letter and symbol glyphs. + + o Cleaned up Cherokee a bit. + + o Fixed the non-spacing Dhivehi vowels. + + o Adjusted some of the UCAS shapes. + + o Replaced Ogham glyphs with better version. + + o Major cleanup of Ethiopic glyphs. + + o Added some glyphs to the Cyrillic block. + + o Added a couple missing Arabic glyphs. + + o Minor adjustment to U+1EF5. + + o Added a Devanagari-only font. + + o Added the Braille block. + +CHANGES FROM 1.7 +---------------- + + o Added Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics glyphs. + + o Added Cherokee glyphs. + + o Changed some of the "caron" forms to the preferred "apostrophe" forms. + + o Added Thaana (Dhivehi - Maldivian) glyphs. + + o Finished the Arabic glyph improvements. + + o Adjusted the Lao dependent vowels, tones, and marks based on work done on + the Thai glyphs. + + o Replaced the Thai glyphs with cleaned up versions. + + o Adjusted the shapes of U+01A2 and U+01A3 based on: + http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/pdf/gha.pdf + + o Added some more glyphs for Unicode 3.0. + + o Some minor lightening of a few glyphs. + + o Redrew the Hebrew glyphs to be more consistent with the other scripts. + + o Removed a combination from the PUA font that is in Unicode 3.0. + + o Made the digits in the Arabic glyphs heavier to reflect more common + practice. The Urdu digit glyphs in the alternate font updated as well. + + o Modified the Arabic block glyphs to be smaller and less silly looking. + + o Added Devanagari glyphs including those needed to actually present text. + + o Adjusted the advance widths of the Cyrillic capital letters to make + presentation more consistent. + + o Adjusted the width of the Lao vowels, I, II, Y, and YY. + + o Renamed all the glyphs to "uniXXXX". + + o Added a Macedonian/Serbian alternate for U+0431 to cu-alt12. + + o Added the Romanian alternates using virgule instead of cedilla for + U+015E, U+015F, U+0162, and U+0163. + + o Added the Persian alternate glyph for the decimal separator at U+066B to + the alternate font. + + o Fixed up some of the Greek glyphs so the small iota follows the capital + letters. + + o Improved the Greek drachma sign. + + o Adjusted the Cyrillic block to match Unicode 3.0 and moved the extra + characters to the PUA font. + + o Initial addition of some basic Hangul glyphs. + +CHANGES FROM 1.6 +---------------- + + o Fixed some more spacing problems with Greek glyphs. + + o Fixed some problems with two alternate Greek glyphs. + + o Fixed a spacing problem with an Armenian glyph. + + o Fixed advance width problems with the Klingon. + + o Added an alternate "No." glyph at 0x2116. + + o Changed the spacing on the basic Latin upper-case letters to make them + look better in natural text. + + o Lowered the dot above the the lower case "i" and "j" letters to make them + blend in more with the surrounding letters. + + o Added some Greek block glyphs. + + o Replaced the small letter d-caron (U+010F) with the preferred typesetting + form and moved the caron form to the alternate page. + + o Replaced the small letter l-caron (U+013E) with the preferred typesetting + form and moved the caron form to the alternate page. + + o Added U+01F6 through U+01F9, U+021C and U+021D, U+0222 through U+0225, + U+02A9 through U+02AD, U+02EA through U+02EE, U+0346 through U+034E, + U+0362, U+2139 and U+213A, U+2183, U+21EB through U+21F3, U+2425 and + U+2426, U+25F0 through U+25F7, + + for Unicode 3.0 support. + + o Lightened the weight of the "w" shape a little. + + o Added a couple glyphs to the Private Use Area font for Navajo (U+E12E and + U+E12F). + + o Added glyphs at U+FFFE for use as an X11 DEFAULT_CHAR entry. + + o Added the _XFREE86_GLYPH_RANGES properties. + + o Updated the copyright notice year. + +CHANGES FROM 1.5 +---------------- + + o Fixed up the Coptic SMALL LETTER FEI shape. + + o Changed the default shape of the Greek KOPPA to the O shape and added a + lower case KOPPA in the unassigned slot after the KOPPA. + + o Added some glyphs to the Private Use Area font: dotless lower j, upper + and lower g with tilde, upper j with caron, final Hebrew kaf with + qamats, upper and lower Xucuri letter he, alternate forms of the Greek + koppa. + + o Some minor improvements made to a few Xucuri glyphs. + + o Spacing adjustments to Armenian, Georgian, Lao, and Thai. + + o Added some more Cyrillic and Latin glyphs. + + o Renamed all the glyphs to 4-digit hexadecimal codes of the form 0xUUUU. + + o Added alternate Greek glyphs that use the curved PERISPOMENI instead of + the one that looks like a tilde. + +CHANGES FROM 1.4 +---------------- + + o Fixed the tone marks in the Greek block. + + o Adjusted the spacing on the lower case Greek letters. + + o Added the missing micro sign at U+00B5. + + o Adjusted spacing on more Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic letters. + + o Added a different Franc symbol to the alternate font. + + o Added the Macedonian I with grave, U+040D, U+045D. + + o Added Cyrillic letter IE with grave at U+0400, U+0450. + + o Added the Armenian hyphen at U+058A. + + o Fixed spacings on glyphs shaped like the capital C and R, and lightened + the capital K a bit. + + o Lightened the "small k shape" found in Cyrillic and Greek. + + o Adjusted some spacing problems with Greek alphas. + + o Fixed Cyrillic glyphs UPRIGHT U and UPRIGHT U WITH BAR. + + o Adjusted the Cyrillic letters U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE. + +CHANGES FROM 1.3 +---------------- + + o Lightened the lower case "k" and "t" shapes to be more consistent with + the weight of the other glyphs. + + o Adjusted the spacing of the letter "x" yet again. + + o Adjusted spacing of the letter "y". + + o Changed the Greek capital "Y" shape to something more modern, in the + diatonic block as well. + + o Adjusted many spacings. + + o Adjusted spacing on Georgian Xutsuri lower case alternate glyphs. + + o Added consistent CAP_HEIGHT and X_HEIGHT to all fonts. + +CHANGES +------- +20 October 1998 - Cleaned up some more spacing problems and added the floor + and ceiling glyphs. + +15 October 1998 - Cleaned up some spacing problems with digits. + Added Klingon to the PUA font. + +02 October 1998 - Changed U+0123 to the preferred Latvian form. + Cleaned up some of the Arabic digits. + Made the alternate Georgian font into a general alternate + glyph font. Added some alternate Arabic glyphs for Urdu + digits and letters. Added the g-cedilla as an alternate + glyph. + +03 September 1998 - Fixed some math character metrics. + +09 September 1998 - Finished the Arabic blocks. + +12 July 1998 - Added proposed Cyrillic glyphs for Kildin Sámi. + +12 July 1998 - Borrowed the Ethiopic glyphs from ethiomx12-uni.bdf. |