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+-*-text-*-
+                          GNU FreeFont
+
+The GNU FreeFont project aims to provide a useful set of free scalable
+(i.e., OpenType) fonts covering as much as possible of the ISO 10646/Unicode
+UCS (Universal Character Set).
+
+Statement of Purpose
+--------------------
+
+The practical reason for putting glyphs together in a single font face is
+to conveniently mix symbols and characters from different writing systems,
+without having to switch fonts.
+
+Coverage
+--------
+
+FreeFont covers the following character sets
+
+* ISO 8859 parts 1-15
+* CEN MES-3 European Unicode Subset
+  http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf
+* IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 850, 852, 1250, 1252 and more
+* Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)
+  http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm
+* KOI8-R and KOI8-RU
+* DEC VT100 graphics symbols
+* International Phonetic Alphabet
+* Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian and Thai alphabets,
+  including Arabic presentation forms A/B
+* mathematical symbols, including the whole TeX repertoire of symbols
+* APL symbols
+  etc.
+
+Editing
+-------
+
+The free outline font editor, George Williams's FontForge
+<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/> is used for editing the fonts.
+
+Design Issues
+-------------
+
+Which font shapes should be made?  Historical style terms like Renaissance
+or Baroque letterforms cannot be applied beyond Latin/Cyrillic/Greek
+scripts to any greater extent than Kufi or Nashki can be applied beyond
+Arabic script; "italic" is really only meaningful for Latin letters. 
+
+However, most modern writing systems have typographic formulations for
+contrasting uniform and modulated character stroke widths, and have some
+history with "oblique", faces.  Since the advent of the typewriter, most
+have developed a typographic style with uniform-width characters.
+
+Accordingly, the FreeFont family has one monospaced - FreeMono - and two
+proportional faces (one with uniform stroke - FreeSans - and one with
+modulated stroke - FreeSerif).
+
+To make text from different writing systems look good side-by-side, each
+FreeFont face is meant to contain characters of similar style and weight.
+
+Licensing
+---------
+
+Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
+by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
+or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and
+embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this
+font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the
+GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any
+other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public
+License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your
+version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so.  If you do not
+wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
+
+
+Files and their suffixes
+------------------------
+
+The files with .sfd (Spline Font Database) are in FontForge's native format. 
+Please use these if you plan to modify the font files.
+
+TrueType fonts for immediate consumption are the files with the .ttf
+(TrueType Font) suffix.  These are ready to use in Xwindows based
+systems using FreeType, on Mac OS, and on older Windows systems.
+
+OpenType fonts (with suffix .otf) are for use in Windows Vista. 
+Note that although they can be installed on Linux, but many applications
+in Linux still don't support them.
+
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Primoz Peterlin, <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
+Steve White <stevan.white@googlemail.com>
+
+Free UCS scalable fonts: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
+$Id: README,v 1.5 2008/08/30 09:30:09 Stevan_White Exp $