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+###########################################################################
+############ Latin Modern Collection of Fonts ############
+###########################################################################
+
+Font: Latin Modern Math
+Authors: Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk and Piotr Pianowski
+Version: 1.950
+Date: 11 X 2012
+
+License:
+ % Copyright 2012 for the Latin Modern 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-Latin-Modern-Math.txt file.
+
+###########################################################################
+############ A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FONT ############
+###########################################################################
+
+Latin Modern Math is a math companion for the Latin Modern family
+of fonts (see http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern) 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 fonts are expected
+to contain the following scripts: a basic serif font (regular, bold,
+italic and bold italic), a calligraphic font (regular and bold),
+a double-struck font, a fraktur font (regular and bold), a sans-serif
+font (regular, bold, oblique and regular oblique), and a monospaced font.
+
+The basic script is, obviously, Latin Modern. Some scripts, however,
+are borrowed from other fonts (the current selection, however, may
+be subject to change), belonging, however, to the "TeX circle":
+
+ * the calligraphic and fraktur alphabets are excerpted from the renowned
+ Euler family (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler);
+
+ * the double struck script is excerpted from Alan Jeffrey's bbold font
+ (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bbold/bbold.pdf)
+
+ * the sans serif and monospaced alphabets are excerpted from
+ the Latin Modern Sans and Latin Modern Mono fonts
+ (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern);
+ sans serif bold Greek symbols (required by the already mentioned
+ "Unicode Technical Report #25") were prepared using D.E. Knuth's
+ font sources with some manual tuning
+
+The main math component, that is, the math extension, was programmed
+from scratch, with an attempt to retain the visual compatiblility
+with the original D.E. Knuth's fonts. In particular, all symbols
+(with a few exceptions) appearing in the D.E. Knuth's "canonical" fonts
+have the same width (rounded) as the corresponding Knuthian ones.
+
+Note that the members of all the mentioned alphabets, except
+the main roman alphabet, should be considerd 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.
+
+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.