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+###########################################################################
+############ The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts ############
+###########################################################################
+
+Font: TeX Gyre Bonum Math
+Authors: Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk and Piotr Pianowski
+Version: 1.005
+Date: 5 IX 2014 / 19 V 2016 (documentation update)
+
+License:
+ % Copyright 2014 for the TeX Gyre math extensions by B. Jackowski,
+ % P. Strzelczyk and P. Pianowski (on behalf of TeX Users Groups).
+ %
+ % This work can be freely used and distributed under
+ % the GUST Font License (GFL -- see GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt)
+ % which is actually an instance of the LaTeX Project Public License
+ % (LPPL -- see http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt).
+ %
+ % This work has the maintenance status "maintained". The Current Maintainer
+ % of this work is Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk and Piotr Pianowski.
+ %
+ % This work consists of the files listed
+ % in the MANIFEST-TeX-Gyre-Bonum.txt file.
+
+###########################################################################
+############ A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FONT ############
+###########################################################################
+
+TeX Gyre Bonum Math is a math companion for the TeX Gyre Bonum family
+of fonts (see http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/) in
+the OpenType format.
+
+The math OTF fonts should contain a special table, MATH, described in the
+confidential Microsoft document "The MATH table and OpenType Features
+for Math Processing". Moreover, they should contain a broad collection
+of special characters (see "Draft Unicode Technical Report #25.
+UNICODE SUPPORT FOR MATHEMATICS" by Barbara Beeton, Asmus Freytag,
+and Murray Sargent III). In particular, math OTF scripts are expected
+to contain the following scripts: a basic serif script (regular, bold,
+italic and bold italic), a calligraphic script (regular and bold),
+a double-struck script, a fraktur script (regular and bold), a sans-serif
+script (regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique), and a monospaced script.
+
+The basic script is, obviously, TeX Gyre Bonum. The Greek
+symbols in TeX Gyre Bonum were excerpted from the Kerkis
+package (http://iris.math.aegean.gr/kerkis/) with the kind
+permission of the authors, Apostolos Syropoulos and Antonis
+Tsolomitis; in TeX Gyre Bonum Math, a few adjustments in the
+Greek alphabet were needed (such as adding four variants
+of kappa1: u03F0 -- regular, u1D6DE -- bold, u1D718 -- italic,
+u1D752 -- bold italic).
+
+The calligraphic script were created from scratch as well as the math extension,
+i.e., the main component of the font.
+
+Other scripts, however, are borrowed from other fonts (the current
+selection, however, may be subject to change):
+
+ * The fraktur alphabets (regular and bold) is excerpted
+ from the Leipziger Fraktur replica by Peter Wiegel
+ ( http://www.peter-wiegel.de/Leipzig.html )
+ with the kind permission of the author.
+
+ * The sans serif alphabets (regular, oblique, bold, and
+ bold oblique) are excerpted from TeX Gyre Heros
+ http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/heros
+ (actually, the sans serif bold Greek symbols were manually tuned).
+
+ * The double struck script is excerpted from TeX Gyre Termes Math;
+ in the future, we plan to replace it with the script having forms
+ derived from TeX Gyre Bonum alphabet.
+
+ * Finally, the monospaced alphabet is taken from TeX Gyre Cursor
+ (see http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/).
+
+Note that the members of all the mentioned alphabets, except
+the main roman alphabet, should be considered symbols, not letters;
+symbols are not expected to occur in a text stream; instead,
+they are expected to appear lonely, perhaps with some embellishments
+like subscripts, superscripts, primes, dots above and below, etc.
+
+To produce the font, MetaType1 and the FontForge library were used:
+the Type1 PostScript font containing all relevant characters was
+generated with the MetaType1 engine, and the result was converted
+into the OTF format with all the necessary data structures by
+a Python script employing the FontForge library.
+
+Recent changes (ver. 1.002 --> ver. 1.005) comprised mainly
+interline settings in OTF tables (HHEA and OS/2).
+
+ * * *
+
+The TeX Gyre Math Project was launched and is supported by
+TeX USERS GROUPS (CS TUG, DANTE eV, GUST, NTG, TUG India, TUG, UK TUG).
+Hearty thanks to the representatives of these groups and also
+to all people who helped with their work, comments, ideas,
+remarks, bug reports, objections, hints, consolations, etc.
+