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GNU FreeFont Credits |
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This file lists contributors and contributions to the GNU FreeFont 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 |
Ghostscript project <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>, to be available |
under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL). |
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Basic Latin (U+0041-U+007A) |
Latin-1 Supplement (U+00C0-U+00FF) |
Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F) |
Spacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0-U+02FF) |
Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF) |
Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F) |
Dingbats (U+2700-U+27BF) |
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* Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John |
Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au> |
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Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting |
system, <http://omega.enstb.org/>. Omega is an extension of TeX. |
Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities. |
In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide, |
instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX. |
Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses |
programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform |
contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode |
standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make |
it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages, |
like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but |
will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as |
native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) |
and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript |
format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. |
Omega fonts are available subject to GPL |
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Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) |
IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) |
Greek (U+0370-U+03FF) |
Armenian (U+0530-U+058F) |
Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF) |
Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF) |
Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF) |
Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF) |
Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF) |
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Current info: <http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=omega> |
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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 |
the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts, |
<ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/>. The fonts are available under GPL. |
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Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F) |
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 |
a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms: |
Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files are |
written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into |
Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji |
Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now |
found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering |
and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo |
<ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/>. |
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Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F) |
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 |
designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the |
documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The |
Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts |
for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < , |
etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX |
fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times |
fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of |
that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts." |
TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license (GPL). |
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts/>. |
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Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) |
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 |
<ftp://ftp.hellug.gr/pub/unix/linux/GREEK/fonts/greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz>. |
The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in |
FreeSans and FreeMono. |
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Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for |
educational or commercial purposes. All derived works should include |
this paragraph. If you want to change something please let me have |
your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next |
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 |
glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and |
slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU |
intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at |
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/>. |
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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 |
(without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under |
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 |
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: |
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be |
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, |
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF |
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. |
IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE 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. |
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Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be |
used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other |
dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from |
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 |
compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on |
<http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On |
2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for |
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 |
<http://thaana.sourceforge.net/> and among other things created a |
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 |
states on his web page <http://members.tripod.com/~sushantdash/>: |
"Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No |
copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel |
free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for |
people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters |
home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya |
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/> - |
an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes |
etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and |
Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages |
Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to |
users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian |
languages." |
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Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) |
Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) |
Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) |
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 |
1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>. |
Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs. |
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 |
<apandey AT u.washington.edu> |
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In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The |
Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available |
under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington |
University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can |
be found on CTAN, <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>. I |
converted the font to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace |
program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some |
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, |
available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license |
says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are |
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 |
set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as |
uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and |
modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to |
release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this |
notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN, |
<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and |
<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>. |
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Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) |
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, |
Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil |
metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over |
the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN, |
<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>, |
Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Olaf |
Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen Metzinger <?> |
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Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations |
of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic |
metafonts, found on |
<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also |
maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project, |
<http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>, |
and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The current |
version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I |
converted the fonts to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace-A |
program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some |
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 |
Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of |
Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with |
URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono |
L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See |
also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>. |
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Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF) |
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* Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis AT panayotis.com> |
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Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek |
Extended area. |
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Greek Extended (U+1F00-U+1FFF) |
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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 |
with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform |
scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed |
a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed |
from the "Carlo Ator" font freely downloadable from |
<http://www.aacf.asso.fr/>. Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing |
spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of |
subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers. |
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Syriac (U+0700-U+074A) |
Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F) |
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 |
Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released |
a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati, |
Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi) |
under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts |
from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site |
(http://www.gnu.org.in/akruti-fonts/) or from the Akruti website. |
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For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts, |
please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com. |
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Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) |
Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) |
Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) |
Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) |
Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) |
Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) |
Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F) |
Kannada (U+0C80-U+0CFF) |
Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) |
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* DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt |
<nlevitt AT columbia.edu> |
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Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site |
<http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or, |
+ Produced by DMS |
+Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font |
+comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode. |
+ |
+ Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF) |
+ |
+ |
+* Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com> |
+ |
+Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic |
+glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of |
+the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X, |
+<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>. |
+ |
+ Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF) |
+ |
+ |
+* Denis Jacquerye <moyogo AT gmail.com> |
+ |
+Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the |
+Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges. |
+ |
+ Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) |
+ IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) |
+ |
+ |
+* K.H. Hussain <hussain AT kfri.org> and R. Chitrajan |
+ |
+`Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara Vedi, |
+a team of socially committed information technology professionals and |
+philologists, has applied developments in computer technology and desktop |
+publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language from the disorder, |
+fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered since the attempt to adapt |
+the Malayalam script for using with a regular mechanical typewriter, which |
+took place in 1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute |
+has released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required |
+to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the |
+glyphs in the OpenType table. |
+ |
+In 2008, the Malayalam ranges in FreeSerif were updated under the advise |
+and supervision of Hiran Venugopalan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, |
+to reflect the revised edition Rachana_04. |
+ |
+ Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) |
+ |
+ |
+* Solaiman Karim <solaiman AT ekushey.org> |
+ |
+ Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) |
+ |
+Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and |
+released them under GNU GPL on <http://www.ekushey.org>. |
+ |
+ |
+* Sonali Sonania <sonalisonania AT gmail.com> and Monika Shah |
+ <monikapatira AT gmail.com> |
+ |
+ Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) |
+ Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) |
+ |
+Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101,Mahalakshmi |
+Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore |
+560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai, |
+lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali |
+Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released |
+under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii |
+Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC |
+Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by |
+TDIL, Govt. of India. Contact:monika_shah AT lycos.com, |
+sonalisonania AT yahoo.com, jitendras AT vsnl.com, alka AT ncst.ernet.in. |
+website: www.janabhaaratii.org.in. |
+ |
+ |
+* Pravin Satpute <pravin_ind21 AT hotmail.com>, Bageshri Salvi |
+ <sbagrshri AT yahoo.co.in>, Rahul Bhalerao <rahul_pb_india AT |
+ yahoo.com> and Sandeep Shedmake <surgs2k47 AT yahoo.co.in> |
+ |
+ Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) |
+ Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) |
+ Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) |
+ Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) |
+ Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) |
+ |
+In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two |
+Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font |
+belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak |
+Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation |
+of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti |
+and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard. You can |
+download the font files (released under GNU/GPL License) from |
+http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/font.htm |
+ |
+ |
+* Kulbir Singh Thind |
+ |
+ Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) |
+ |
+Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts, |
+AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU |
+Generel Public Licens from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center, |
+http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/. |
+ |
+ |
+* Gia Shervashidze <giasher AT telenet.ge> |
+ |
+ Georgian (U+10A0-U+10FF) |
+ |
+Starting in mid-1990s, Gia Shervashidze designed many |
+Unicode-compliant Georgian fonts: Times New Roman Georgian, Arial |
+Georgian, Courier New Georgian. His work on Georgian localization can |
+be reached at http://www.gia.ge/. |
+ |
+ |
+* Primož Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si> |
+ |
+Primož Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin |
+Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and |
+created the following UCS blocks: |
+ |
+ Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) |
+ IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) |
+ Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) |
+ Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F) |
+ Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F) |
+ Geometrical Shapes (U+25A0-U+25FF) |
+ |
+* Mark Williamson |
+ |
+Made the MPH 2 Damase font, from which |
+ Hanunóo (U+1720-U+173F) |
+ Buginese (U+1A00-U+1A1F) |
+ Tai Le (U+1950-U+197F) |
+ Ugaritic (U+10380-U+1039F) |
+ Old Persian (U+103A0-U+103DF) |
+ |
+* Jacob Poon |
+ |
+Submitted a very thorough survey of glyph problems and other suggestions. |
+ |
+* Alexey Kryukov |
+ |
+Made the TemporaLCGUni fonts, based on the URW++ fonts, from which at one |
+point FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek, was drawn. He also provided |
+valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting. |
+ |
+* George Douros |
+ |
+The creator of several fonts focusing on ancient scripts and symbols. |
+Many of the glyphs are created by making outlines from scanned images |
+of ancient sources. |
+ |
+ Aegean: Phoenecian |
+ Analecta: Gothic (U+10330-U+1034F) |
+ Musical: Byzantine & Western |
+ Unicode: many Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical, |
+ supplemental Symbols, and Mathematical Alphanumeric symbols, |
+ Mah Jong, and the outline of the Domino. |
+ |
+* Daniel Johnson |
+ |
+Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with |
+the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to |
+fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. |
+ Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF) |
+ |
+Notes: |
+ |
+*: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has |
+ not yet replied and agreed on their work being used in part of |
+ this glyph collection. |
+ |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+$Id: CREDITS,v 1.23 2009/01/04 15:57:54 Stevan_White Exp $ |