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+This file belongs to the TeX Gyre collection of fonts. The work is
+released under the GUST Font License. See the MANIFEST-TeX-Gyre-Bonum.txt
+and README-TeX-Gyre-Bonum.txt files for the details.
+For the most recent version of this license see
+http://www.gust.org.pl/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt or
+http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt
+
+Ver 2.004: 30.10.2009
+* path directions in a few glyps corrected
+
+Ver 2.003: 16.09.2009
+* this is the first official release of the TeX Gyre Bonum fonts since
+ June 22, 2009, when URW++, represented by Dr. Peter Rosenfeld, its
+ Managing Director, kindly agreed to release the original 35 base
+ PostScript fonts as shipped with Ghostscript ver. 4.00 under the LPPL
+ (LaTeX Project Public License). This should be understood so that the
+ 35 base Postscript fonts may be used and developed either under the
+ LPPL or one of the GPL (GNU Public Licence) or AFPL (Aladdin Free
+ Public Licence). The latter were put in force with the initial release
+ of the base fonts with Ghostscript ver. 4.00 in 1996. Hereby we thank
+ Dr. Rosenfeld. The TeX Gyre fonts are being develped from the
+ Ghostscript ver. 4.00 base. For reasons explained elsewhere, we prefer
+ to provide our work under the GUST Font Licence (GFL) which is legally
+ equivallent to the LPPL. However, since 1996 the 35 PostScript base
+ fonts were enhanced under the GNU Public License with Vietnamese glyphs
+ by Han The Thanh and Cyrillic glyphs by Valek Filippov. Han The Thanh
+ kindly permitted his additions to be retained under under GFL/LPPL in
+ this and future TeX Gyre fonts releases. Unfortunately, we were unable
+ to receive a similar permission from Valek Filippov for his Cyrillic
+ glyphs, thus there are no Cyrillic glyphs in any of the TeX Gyre fonts.
+* with the removal of the Cyrillic glyphs all t2a-*.tfm, t2b-*.tfm
+ t2c-*.tfm files and the relevant LaTeX *.fd files were also removed.
+* typos in ligature schemes in `comm_mph.mp' corrected
+ (`quotedblbase' and `quotedblleft' instead `quotedblright')
+* spaceskip make consistent with the width of space --
+ qbkb, qbkbi: 0.34em plus 0.17em minus 0.113em,
+ qbkr: 0.32em plus 0.16em minus 0.107em,
+ qbkri: 0.3em plus 0.15em minus 0.1em;
+ thanks to Jarmo Niemel\"a for pointing out the problem;
+ previous spacing (0.333em plus 0.167em minus 0.111em) can be restored:
+ (a) in plain -- by setting \spaceskip=0.333em plus 0.167em minus 0.111em
+ (b) in LaTeX -- by using option `oldspacing' (see below)
+* OTF structure corrected and improved (in particular, the ligature ffi
+ works now properly)
+* `visiblespace' renamed to `uni2423' (suggestion of Werner Lemberg and
+ Karl Berry) -- hopefully everywhere...
+* `Dblgravecomb' renamed to `dblGravecomb'
+* `nomero' in MT1 sources renamed to `numero', shape altered,
+ name `afii61352' no more used
+* undertie added (suggestion of Werner Lemberg)
+ U+203F -- undertie (smile-shaped glyph placed below baseline)
+ U+2040 -- tie (frown-shaped glyph placed at the top line)
+ U+2054 -- undertieinverted (frown-shaped glyph placed below baseline)
+ nota bene, there is no code point in the Unicode table for the inverted tie...
+* glyphs `acaron', `Acaron', `icaron', `Icaron', `idieresisacute',
+ `Idieresisacute', `jcaron', `J_caron', `ocaron', `Ocaron', `ucaron',
+ `Ucaron', `udieresisacute', `Udieresisacute', `udieresiscaron',
+ `Udieresiscaron', `udieresisgrave', and `Udieresisgrave' added
+ (proposal of Oliver Corff) -- all the glyphs but `J_caron' have code
+ points in the Unicode table and names assigned in the Adobe Glyph List
+ (incidentaly, in J_caron apostrophe is used alike in lcaron and tcaron --
+ cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-caron), small caps were assigned
+ code points in Private Unicode Area
+* glyps orogate and Orogate (`rogate' in Polish means `with horns')
+ added -- they are used to denote nasal vowels in ancient Polish texts
+ (ca. XIV century)
+* uni2010 (hyphen duplicate) i uni2011 (non-breakable hyphen duplicate) added
+ (suggestion of Hans Hagen)
+* LaTeX *.sty and *.fd files reworked:
+ -- option `oldspacing' provided because of the change of default spacing
+ (see above),
+ -- files l7x*.fd (Lithuanian) refer to `L7x', as they should,
+ -- scheme of referring to slanted variants improved,
+ -- option `scaled=<size>' added which allows to rescale font
+ at loading,
+ -- in TeX Gyre LaTeX packages, text bold is defined as
+ \renewcommand\bfdefault{b} (`b' instead of `bx')
+ -- options `matchlowercase'/`matchuppercase' added which scale
+ the font such that its `x_height'/`cap_height' matches
+ the respective dimension of the main font of the document;
+ one can say also, e.g., `matchlowercase=1.1' if scaling to 110%
+ of the `x_height' of the main font of the document is needed;
+ sample usage:
+ \documentclass{article}
+ \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+ \usepackage[matchlowercase]{tgtermes,tgadventor,tgheros}
+ \begin{document}
+ We put TG Termes (main) with \textsf{TG Heros} and
+ {\fontfamily{qag}\selectfont TG Adventor}. \textsf{As~a~result},
+ all small letters have the same heights.
+ \end{document}
+ (note that now TeX Gyre LaTeX styles require the `kvoptions' module
+ which, in turn, necessitates using etex)
+ very many thanks to Marcin Woli\'nski
+
+REMARKS:
+* we are not going to introduce any extensions that would result
+ in yet more TFMs files (e.g., for more convenient handling
+ of oldstyle/normal digits) -- in such cases we suggest using
+ the OTF fonts versions
+* improving hints is a kind of Sisyphean job -- there are no tools
+ for automatic hinting checking; the only method is to check
+ optically/manually each and every character with various display
+ agents, on various screens under various operating systems and various
+ resolutions. We are not totally opposing Sisyphean jobs in general,
+ but having had that much time as we had, we decided to spend it on
+ other improvements...
+
+Ver. 1.103: 22.02.2008
+* math glyphs shifted horizontally (widths left intact)
+* kerns between half rings and `A' (also `a.sc') added
+* in the OTF files, the features `salt', `ss01', `ss02',
+ `ss03', `ss04' added
+
+Ver. 1.102: 19.02.2008 -- inofficial release
+* compatibility with the recent Latin Modern release (1.106) implemented,
+ see -- http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/
+ main changes: the repertoire of glyphs extended by Arabic transliteration
+ glyphs, OTF structure modified (`size' feature implemented, the ligatures
+ `i_j' and `I_J' available only for Dutch, the ligature `f_k' -- for Polish,
+ the `locl' feature reimplemented -- an artificial glyph `i.TRK' is no
+ longer needed)
+* glyphs uni03C6 and uni03D5 used to be interchanged in all TeX Gyre fonts;
+ the unicode specification is not explicit too much:
+ 03C6;GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI
+ 03D5;GREEK PHI SYMBOL
+ but FileFormat.Info is:
+ http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03c6/index.htm
+ http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03d5/index.htm
+ (spotted by Michael Zedler, thanks)
+
+Ver. 1.099: 30.01.2008 -- unpublished
+* widths of nearly all glyphs made consistent with the Adobe metric data
+ (for the glyphs from the Adobe Standard Encoding):
+ ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/base35/bkd_____.afm
+ ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/base35/bkdi____.afm
+ ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/base35/bkl_____.afm
+ ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/type/win/all/afmfiles/base35/bkli____.afm
+ ans exception is (in qbkri) the glyph `braceright' (Adobe: 380;
+ TeX Gyre: 360, as `braceleft')
+* shape of `Delta' in qbkb altered (outer triangle replaced by a polygon)
+* `copyright.alt' added
+
+Ver. 1.010, 30.03.2007:
+* The basic Greek alphabet improved with the relevant glyphs
+ from the Kerkis distribution (http://iris.math.aegean.gr/kerkis/),
+ courtesy of the authors, Apostolos Syropoulos and Antonis Tsolomitis
+
+22.01.2007: no version change
+* Lithuanian *.fd file corrected (reported by Sigitas Tolusis): L7X -> L7x
+
+Ver. 1.001, 14.01.2007:
+* LM-compatible corrections: `[Ll]dotaccent' renamed to `[Ll]dot'
+ (in both PS and OTF), [SsTt]commaaccent renamed to uni0218, uni0219,
+ uni021A, and uni021B, respectively (in OTF only), `[gklnr]commaaccent'
+ duplicated to `[gklnr]cedilla', combining accents supplemented
+ (`commaaccentcomb', `Breveinvertedcomb'), AFDKO's Glyph Order
+ and Alias DB file (GOADB) modified (now both Latin Modern and
+ TeX Gyre engines fonts share the same GOADB)
+* OTF feature locl fixed
+
+Ver. 1.000: 18.12.2006