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-GENTIUM-FAQ
-Gentium Plus
-========================
-
-Here are some answers to frequently asked questions about the Gentium Plus
-fonts:
-
-
-General
-========
-
-How do you pronounce Gentium?
-
- The preferred pronunciation is with a soft G as in 'general', not a
- hard one as in 'gold': JEN-tee-oom.
-
-
-Licensing
-=========
-
-I want to use Gentium Plus in my publication - can I?
-
- Gentium Plus is released under the SIL Open Font License, which permits
- use for any publication, whether electronic or printed. For more answers
- to use questions see the OFL-FAQ. The license, alongside information
- specific to Gentium Plus, is in the release package.
-
-I would like to bundle Gentium Plus with my application - can I?
-
- This is our most common question. The SIL Open Font License allows
- bundling with applications, even commercial closed source ones, with
- some restrictions. See the OFL.txt file and the OFL-FAQ.
-
-Can I use the font on my web site?
-
- You can certainly create web pages that request that Gentium Plus be
- used to display them (both if that font is already available on the
- user's system or if it is delivered via @font-face). According to the
- license, you are also allowed to place the font on your site for people
- to download it. We would strongly recommend, however, that you direct
- users to our site to download the font. This ensures that they are
- always using the most recent version with bug fixes, etc. To make this
- easier, there is a simple URL for Gentium: http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium
- There is further important discussion of webfont issues in the OFL-FAQ.
-
-Is Gentium Plus going to stay unrestricted and available at no cost?
-
- There is no intention to ever charge users for using Gentium and its
- variants. The current version is licensed under a free/open license and
- future versions will be similarly unencumbered.
-
-
-Modification
-============
-
-I would like to modify Gentium Plus to add a couple of characters I need.
-Can I?
-
- Yes - that is allowed as long as you abide by the conditions of the
- SIL Open Font License.
-
-So will you add glyphs upon request?
-
- If you have a special symbol that you need (say, for a particular
- transcription system), the best means of doing so will be to ensure
- that the symbol makes it into the Unicode Standard. It is impossible
- for us to add every glyph that every person desires, but we do place
- a high priority on adding pretty much anything that falls in certain
- Unicode ranges (extended Latin, Greek, Cyrillic). You can send us your
- requests, but please understand that we are unlikely to add symbols
- where the user base is very small, unless they have been accepted
- into Unicode.
-
-Can I send you work I've done to be incorporated into Gentium Plus?
-
- Yes. See the FONTLOG for information on becoming a contributor.
-
-
-Technical
-=========
-
-Can you help me get Gentium Plus working on my system?
-
- We cannot afford to offer individual technical support. The best
- resource is this website, where we hope to offer some limited help.
- However, we do want to hear of any problems you encounter, so that
- we can add them to the list of bugs to fix in later releases.
- Our contact address is gentium@sil.org. Please understand
- that we cannot guarantee a personal response.
-
-I can't find all the extended Latin letters in the font. How do I type them?
-
- Gentium Plus is Unicode-encoded, which means that the computer stores a
- special, unique code for each letter in your document. Since most
- keyboards do not have hundreds of keys, special software is needed
- in order to type the hundreds of special characters supported by the
- font. See the README.txt file for more information.
-
-I can't find the 'o with right hook' in the font. Where is it?
-
- Combinations of base letters with diacritics are often called
- composite, or pre-composed glyphs. Gentium Plus has hundreds of these
- (the ones that are included in Unicode). There are, however, many
- common combinations that are not represented by a single composite.
- It is possible to enter these into a document, but only as
- individual components. So 'o with right hook' would be entered as
- 'o', then 'right hook'. Although this may not look very good in some
- cases, we're not able to anticipate every possible combination.
- Gentium Plus includes 'smart font' support for both OpenType and
- Graphite.
-
-Some diacritics are not aligning well with base glyphs, and if I type more
-than one diacritic, they run into each other. Why is that?
-
- The smart diacritic positioning in Gentium Plus relies on either
- OpenType or Graphite. The application you are using must support
- one of these technologies in order to see appropriate diacritic
- positioning.
-
-How do I type the Greek letters?
-
- You need a Unicode-compatible keyboarding system, which is not
- included in the release.
-
-I'm having problems making PDFs -- why won't my document distill?
-
- Gentium Plus is a large font, with lots of glyphs. As a result,
- some older printers, PDF distillers and readers can balk at PDFs
- that have the complete font embedded. The easiest way to avoid
- this is to have the PDF distiller subset the font. This is
- generally a good idea anyway (with any font) and can reduce the
- size of your files.
-
-
-Plus
-=====
-
-How are the Gentium Plus fonts different from Gentium?
-
- This font is based on the original Gentium design, but with an expanded
- character and glyph repertoire. It currently comes with regular and
- italic faces. It comes with near-complete support for Latin, Cyrillic
- and Greek. It also contains 'smart font' support for OpenType and Graphite
- technologies. This allows for correct diacritic placement over all base
- characters, whether they are tall, short, wide, narrow, with or without
- descenders. It also provides for a large variety of alternates glyphs.
- These are described on the Gentium website.
-
-Why is the line spacing greater for the Plus fonts?
-
- In some environments, stacked diacritics in Gentium could display as
- 'chopped-off'. Gentium Plus has slightly wider default line spacing
- in order to avoid this problem. Most applications do, however, let you
- set the line spacing explicitly, so you can have the lines spaced
- precisely as you wish.
-
-Is there an Alt version of the Basic fonts?
-
- No, although you may notice that capitals and some tall lowercase
- letters do use 'low-profile' versions. Gentium Plus also includes
- OpenType and Graphite features to turn low-profile diacritics on
- and off.
-
-
-Future
-======
-
-What are your future plans for Gentium Plus?
-
- Our next major effort is completing bold and bold italic weights
- of Gentium Plus alongside a new Gentium Book Plus family. These new
- weights are currently available for Gentium Basic/Gentium Book Basic.
-
-Do you plan to include other typographic enhancements (old style
-figures, etc.)?
-
- Those would be nice, wouldn't they? From a design point of view,
- it would be great to have these refinements, and we haven't ruled
- them out. But there are other needs that are much higher priority
- (such as bold). If you think you could contribute some of your time
- and effort to these enhancements, see the FONTLOG.txt file for
- information on becoming a contributor.
-
-Sans-serif?
-
- There is a definite need for a sans-serif font that shares some of
- Gentium's strengths -- high readability, economy of space, etc. It
- would also be great if that font also harmonized well with Gentium.
- We don't currently have any plans for a companion face, although one
- of our other projects - Andika - may be useful. Andika is a sans-serif
- font designed specifically for use in literacy programs around the
- world, and is available from our web site.
-
-Will you be extending Gentium to cover other scripts, and Hebrew in
-particular?
-
- It is very unlikely that we would do this, as there are so many
- pressing needs in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts.
-
-Will there be a Type 1 version? What about OpenType?
-
- Gentium Plus includes OpenType and Graphite support. We do not plan
- to produce Type 1 versions at this time, but please write us if this
- is important (and tell us why). We already provide the PostScript
- bézier curves in the 'designsource' files in the developer release.