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-README
-Gentium Release 1.03
-24 June 2011
-====================
-
-Thank you for your interest in the Gentium fonts.
-We hope you find them useful!
-
-Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family
-designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use
-the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports
-a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to
-all the Latin ranges of Unicode.
-
-The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and
-visually attractive. The additional 'extended' Latin letters are designed to
-naturally harmonize with the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated
-with careful thought and attention to their use. Gentium also supports both
-ancient and modern Greek, including a number of alternate forms. It has won
-a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major international
-typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003).
-
-Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters.
-It currently supports the following ranges of Unicode 3.0 (completely unless
-noted):
-
-Range Description
----------------------------
-U+0020-U+007F Basic Latin
-U+00A0-U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement
-U+0100-U+017F Latin Extended-A
-U+0180-U+021F Latin Extended-B
-U+0222-U+0233 Latin Extended-B (continued)
-U+0250-U+02AD IPA Extensions
-U+02B0-U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters
-U+0300-U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks
-U+0370-U+03D5 Greek (not including archaic or Coptic)
-U+1E00-U+1EFF Latin Extended Additional
-U+1F00-U+1FFF Greek Extended
-U+2000-U+203A General Punctuation (partial)
-U+2070-U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts
-U+20A0-U+20CF Currency Symbols (partial)
-U+2100-U+214F Letterlike Symbols (only a couple)
-
-Gentium Regular also includes some Cyrillic glyphs, but they are only early
-drafts. A future version will include a completely revised set, and will
-expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to cover Unicode 4.1. It
-will also include support for OpenType and Graphite smart font
-technologies.
-
-Gentium is released under the SIL Open Font License.
-Gentium is a trademark of SIL International.
-
-See the OFL and OFL-FAQ for details of the SIL Open Font License.
-See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases.
-See the QUOTES file to read the feedback received from Gentium users.
-See the GENTIUM-FAQ file for frequently asked questions and their answers
- (such as why there are two families of fonts included).
-
-
-TIPS
-====
-
-We cannot afford to offer technical support at no cost. The font has, however,
-been through some testing on various platforms to be sure it works in most
-situations. In particular, it has been tested and shown to work on Windows
-2000, Windows XP and Ubuntu.
-
-If you do find a problem, please do report it to <gentium AT sil DOT org>.
-We can't guarantee any direct response, but will try to fix reported bugs in
-future versions. Make sure you read through the Gentium FAQ.
-
-Many problems can be solved, or at least explained, through an understanding
-of the encoding and use of the fonts. Here are some basic hints:
-
-Encoding:
-The fonts are encoded according to Unicode, so your application must support
-Unicode text in order to access letters other than the standard alphabet.
-Most Windows applications provide basic Unicode support. You will, however,
-need some way of entering Unicode text into your document.
-
-Keyboarding:
-Gentium does not include any keyboarding helps or utilities. It uses the
-built-in keyboards of the operating system. You will need to install the
-appropriate keyboard and input method for the characters of the language you
-wish to use. If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any
-system keyboard, depending on your platform Keyman (www.tavultesoft.com), KMFL
-(kmfl.sf.net), XKB (http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB) or Ukelele
-(scripts.sil.org/ukelele) can be helpful.
-
-Another method of entering some symbols is provided by a few applications
-as Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice or gucharmap. They can display a glyph palette
-that shows all the glyphs (symbols) in a font and allow you to enter them by
-clicking on the glyph you want.
-
-Rendering:
-Gentium also currently lacks any special font programming that can
-substitute one glyph for another or position glyphs in a 'smart' way, such
-as in OpenType, Apple Advanced Typography or SIL's Graphite. For example,
-although Gentium includes an 'ffl' ligature, there are no special routines
-in the font that will automatically substitute 'f'+'f'+'l' with 'ffl', but
-an individual application might provide that feature.
-
-
-INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
-==============================
-
-For installation tips - including using packages (installers) - please refer
-to the documentation on http://scripts.sil.org/DecompressUtil
-
-CONTACT
-========
-For more information please visit the Gentium page on SIL International's
-Computers and Writing systems website:
-http://scripts.sil.org/gentium
-
-Or send an email to <gentium AT sil DOT org>
-