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+Summary: This project aims to privide a set of free scalable
+(PostScript Type0, TrueType, OpenType...) fonts covering the ISO
+10646/Unicode UCS (Universal Character Set).
+
+
+Why do we need free scalable UCS fonts?
+
+A large number of free software users switched from free X11
+bitmapped fonts to proprietary Microsoft Truetype fonts, as a) they
+used to be freely downloaded from Microsoft Typography page
+<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/free.htm>, b) they contain a more
+or less decent subsed of the ISO 10646 UCS (Universal Character Set),
+c) they are high-quality, well hinted scalable Truetype fonts, and d)
+Freetype <http://www.freetype.org/>, a free high-quality Truetype font
+renderer exists and has been integrated into the latest release of
+XFree86, the free X11 server.
+
+Building a dependence on non-free software, even a niche one like
+fonts, is dangerous. Microsoft Truetype core fonts are not free, they
+are just costless. For now, at least. Citing the TrueType core fonts
+for the Web FAQ <http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq8.htm>:
+"You may only redistribute the fonts in their original form (.exe or
+.sit.hqx) and with their original file name from your Web site or
+intranet site. You must not supply the fonts, or any derivative fonts
+based on them, in any form that adds value to commercial products,
+such as CD-ROM or disk based multimedia programs, application software
+or utilities." As of August 2002, however, the fonts are not
+anymore available on the Web, which makes the situation clearer.
+
+Aren't there any free high-quality scalable fonts? Yes, there are.
+URW++, a German digital typefoundry, released their own version of the
+35 Postscript Type 1 core fonts under GPL as their donation to the
+Ghostscript project <http://www.gimp.org/fonts.html>. The Wadalab
+Kanji comittee has produced Type 1 font files with thousands of
+filigree Japanese glyphs <ftp:#ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/Font/>.
+Yannis Haralambous has drawn beautiful glyphs for the Omega
+typesetting system <http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080/>. And so
+on. Scattered around the internet there are numerous other free
+resources for other national scripts, many of them aiming to be a
+suitable match for Latin fonts like Times or Helvetica.
+
+
+What do we plan to achieve, and how?
+
+Our aim is to collect available resources, fill in the missing pieces,
+and provide a set of free high-quality scalable (Type 1 and Truetype)
+UCS fonts, released under GPL. 
+
+Free UCS scalable fonts will cover 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://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/opentype/appendices/wgl4.html
+# KOI8-R and KOI8-RU
+# DEC VT100 graphics symbols
+# International Phonetic Alphabet
+# Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian, Thai and Lao alphabets,
+  including Arabic presentation forms A/B
+# Japanese Katakana and Hiragana
+# mathematical symbols, including the whole TeX repertoire of symbols
+# APL symbols
+  etc.
+
+A free Postscript font editor, George Williams's Pfaedit
+<http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/> will be used for creating new
+glyphs.
+
+Which font shapes should be made? As 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, a smaller subset of styles will
+be made: one monospaced and two proportional (one with uniform stroke
+and one with modulated) will be made at the start.
+
+In the beginning, however, we don't believe that Truetype hinting will
+be good enough to compete with neither the hand-crafted bitmapped
+fonts at small sizes, nor with commercial TrueType fonts. A companion
+program for modifying the TrueType font tables, TtfMod, is in the
+works, though: <http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/TtfMod/>. For
+applications like xterm, users are referred to the existing UCS bitmap
+fonts, <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html>.
+
+
+What do the file suffices mean?
+
+The files with .sfd (Spline Font Database) are in PfaEdit's native
+format. Please use these if you plan to modify the font files. PfaEdit
+can export these to mostly any existing font file format.
+
+TrueType fonts for immediate consumption are the files with the .ttf
+(TrueType Font) suffix. You can use them directly, e.g. with the X
+font server.
+
+The files with .ps (PostScript) suffix are not font files at all -
+they are merely PostScript files with glyph tables, which can be used
+for overview, which glyphs are contained in which font file.
+
+You may have noticed the lacking of PostScript Type 1 (.pfa/.pfb) font
+files. Type 1 format does not support large (> 256) encoding vectors,
+so they can not be used with ISO 10646 encoding. If your printer
+supports it, you can use Type 0 format, though. Please use PfaEdit for
+conversion to Type 0.
+
+
+Primoz Peterlin, <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
+
+Free UCS scalable fonts: ftp:#biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si/pub/fonts/elbrus/