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Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design" +in two major international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001), +TDC2003 (2003). + +Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters. The +additional 'extended' Latin letters are designed to naturally harmonize with +the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated with careful thought and +attention to their use. Gentium also supports both ancient and modern Greek, +including a number of alternate forms. It currently supports the following +ranges of Unicode 3.0 (completely unless noted): + +Range Description +U+0020-U+007F Basic Latin +U+00A0-U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement +U+0100-U+017F Latin Extended-A +U+0180-U+021F Latin Extended-B +U+0222-U+0233 Latin Extended-B (continued) +U+0250-U+02AD IPA Extensions +U+02B0-U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters +U+0300-U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks +U+0370-U+03D5 Greek (not including archaic or Coptic) +U+1E00-U+1EFF Latin Extended Additional +U+1F00-U+1FFF Greek Extended +U+2000-U+203A General Punctuation (partial) +U+2070-U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts +U+20A0-U+20CF Currency Symbols (partial) +U+2100-U+214F Letterlike Symbols (only a couple) + +Gentium Regular also includes some Cyrillic glyphs, but they are only early +drafts. A future version will include a completely revised set, including +italic, and will expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to Unicode +4.1. + + +ChangeLog +--------- +(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.) + +24th June 2011 (David Raymond) Gentium version 1.03 +- Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License version 1.1 + +28 Nov 2005 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.02 +- Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License +- Included FontLab source files +- Fixed some duplicate PostScript glyphs names +- Fixed italic angle + +19 Sep 2003 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.01 +- Maintenance release focused on changing internal font +- Information to reflect the changeover to an SIL project +- There is only one bug fix - the Greek mu PS name was changed to try and fix +a display/printing problem. There is still no manual hinting + +16 Sep 2002 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.00 +- First public release +- No manual hinting is included in this version. Some has been done - with +good results - but is not yet complete enough. + + +Information for Contributors +---------------------------- + +The main point of version 1.03 is to enable modification via the OFL 1.1 and to +establish a means for people to contribute to the project. For information +on what you're allowed to change or modify, consult the OFL and OFL-FAQ. The +OFL-FAQ also gives a very general rationale regarding why you would want to +contribute to the project. + +Anyone can make their own modified version of Gentium (using a different +name), but SIL International will continue to maintain and develop the +canonical version of the Gentium fonts. As the package maintainer, we warmly +welcome contributions. Here are some things to keep in mind: + +Format: We are open to contributions in various formats, but if you want to +maximise the chances of us including your work, please make it available to +us (via email or a URL) as either a FontLab database (preferred) or a +PostScript Type 1 (or OT-CFF) font. + +Source files: We're including FontLab databases used in developing +the fonts. The current fonts, however, were not solely built from +this FontLab database, so a simple "Generate Font" will not give you an +identical result. These databases are provided not as canonical source but +as an aid to anyone who might find it useful to have access to the +PostScript-style curves before they were turned into TrueType ones. BTW - +although only two databases are provided, they contain all the Alt glyphs. +In the future we may be making our 'source' available in three formats: +OpenType (TrueType), OT-CFF, and FontLab. + +Copyright attribution: If you submit something for inclusion in the main +Gentium fonts, we will ask you to affirm that it is your original work, and +ask you to assign the copyright of your work to SIL International. This is +to ensure that future releases can be made under improved versions of the +OFL without needing to track you down for further permission. This follows +the same principle used by the FSF. Keep in mind that we are a +not-for-profit organization committed to free/libre and open source +software, and that any contributions incorporated in the fonts will always +be available under the OFL or a similar license. + +Quality: Because we want to be able to guarantee a high level of quality for +the primary Gentium fonts, we will review submissions carefully. Please +don't be discouraged if we do not include a submission for this reason, or +ask you to make specific revisions. + +What types of contributions are welcomed now (some more than others): +- Old style figures +- Small caps (although we would want such done for *all* caps, not just A-Z) +- Specifications for smart Greek code (write us about this) +- Coptic +- Historic/Archaic Cyrillic +- Glyphs used for ancient Greek text study (but not alphabetic ones, like +the digamma) +- Mathematical glyphs +- OpenType code and glyphs for on-the-fly fraction creation +- Additional scripts (Armenian, etc.?), and any needed OT/Graphite/AAT code +- Other things that we may have once told you we didn't have time to do :-) + +What is not needed at this point: +- Revisions to the basic letters or their spacing +- Cyrillic revisions or additions. These are already in process +- Other weights (Bold, Bold italic). We already have some work done on this +- Alphabetic Ancient Greek glyphs (digamma, etc.). These are done and are +waiting for the next release +- Unicode 4.1 additions for Latin. We have these already in the pipeline +- General Latin/Cyrillic OpenType/Graphite/AAT code - we already have this +(see our Doulos SIL project) +- Kerning - there is some in place +- Hinting - although if you could offer to do some hinting, let us know :-) + +So why didn't we include some of this in this release? The only change for +1.02 is the new licensing model. We thought that it was important to get a +revised font out before we had completed the next big revision. We also +didn't want to hold up release until we had everything neat and tidy :-) + +When submissions will be included: We hope to have a revised version of the +Regular and Italic fonts (including full Cyrillic) completed by mid-2006. To +do this we will need submissions early in the year. Other weights will +follow after that. + +WARNINGS: The details of the source files and build procedures will be +changing radically before the next release, so do not spend too much time +working on systems that depend on the current FontLab database information. +Also - the Cyrillic glyphs in the regular font are very early prototypes and +will be changing completely. So don't bother to modify them! + + +Acknowledgements +---------------- +(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications +be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description +(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.) + +N: Victor Gaultney +E: victor_gaultney@sil.org +W: http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/ +D: Original Designer of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs + +The Gentium project is maintained by SIL International. + +For more information please visit the Gentium page on SIL International's +Computers and Writing systems website: +http://scripts.sil.org/gentium + +Or send an email to <gentium AT sil DOT org> |