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+GFSNeohellenicMath (version 1.0)
+----------------------------------
+
+The font GFSNeohellenicMath was commissioned to the Greek Font Society (GFS)
+by the Graduate Studies program "Studies in Mathematics" of the
+Department of Mathematics of the University of the Aegean,
+located on the Samos island, Greece.
+
+The design copyright belongs to the main designer of GFS, George Matthiopoulos.
+The OpenType Math Table embedded in the font was developed by the
+Mathematics Professor Antonis Tsolomitis.
+
+The font is released under the latest OFL license, and it is available from
+the GFS site at http://www.greekfontsociety-gfs.gr
+
+The font is an almost Sans Serif font and one of its main uses is for presentations,
+an area where (we believe) a commercial grade sans math font was not available up to now.
+
+The font contains an extened glyph set including more than the standard math symbols
+such as vertically extended integrals, chess symbols, etc. Vertically extended integrals
+are useful for large constructions although they are still not accessible by
+unicode-math (developement of this feature is in the works). To facilitate
+access to these symbols a style file is included (gfsneohllenicot.sty).
+Larger integrals are accessible with the commands \Bigint, \biggint,
+\Biggint, \bigggint. Smaller integrals, sums and products are also available
+with the commands \smallprod, \smallcoprod, \smallsum and \smallint.
+
+This style file does two additional things. First, it scales the font to 1.2 of
+it's design size to match the xheight of GFS Didot if a serif font is needed to
+be used with it, and fixes accordingly the interline skip. Second it modifies
+interword spacing to 75% for a tighter look, and adds interletter spacing (tracking)
+to the \scshape command. Old style numerals are also accessible with \scshape.
+
+A math sample is bundled with the font courtesy of Alain Aubord who has converted
+to LaTeX the work of Steve Seiden named "Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet".
+(The name was switched to "Mathematics Cheat Sheet" by Antonis Tsolomitis).
+(Note that Steve Seiden in his license allows redistribution not for profit if
+his copyright is not altered (it appears on page 4 of the the cheat sheet)).
+
+A Greek Math sample is available at
+http://myria.math.aegean.gr/~atsol/newpage/lecturenotes/convex-geometry/cga.pdf
+
+We want to thank Alain Aubord for providing the cheat sheet and for running
+several tests with the font that provided important feedback.
+
+George Matthiopoulos – Antonis Tsolomitis