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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 has won +a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major international +typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003). + +Gentium provides glyphs for a wide range of Latin and Greek characters. +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, and will +expand the support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to cover Unicode 4.1. It +will also include support for OpenType and Graphite smart font +technologies. + +Gentium is released under the SIL Open Font License. +Gentium is a trademark of SIL International. + +See the OFL and OFL-FAQ for details of the SIL Open Font License. +See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases. +See the QUOTES file to read the feedback received from Gentium users. +See the GENTIUM-FAQ file for frequently asked questions and their answers + (such as why there are two families of fonts included). + + +TIPS +==== + +We cannot afford to offer technical support at no cost. The font has, however, +been through some testing on various platforms to be sure it works in most +situations. In particular, it has been tested and shown to work on Windows +2000, Windows XP and Ubuntu. + +If you do find a problem, please do report it to <gentium AT sil DOT org>. +We can't guarantee any direct response, but will try to fix reported bugs in +future versions. Make sure you read through the Gentium FAQ. + +Many problems can be solved, or at least explained, through an understanding +of the encoding and use of the fonts. Here are some basic hints: + +Encoding: +The fonts are encoded according to Unicode, so your application must support +Unicode text in order to access letters other than the standard alphabet. +Most Windows applications provide basic Unicode support. You will, however, +need some way of entering Unicode text into your document. + +Keyboarding: +Gentium does not include any keyboarding helps or utilities. It uses the +built-in keyboards of the operating system. You will need to install the +appropriate keyboard and input method for the characters of the language you +wish to use. If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any +system keyboard, depending on your platform Keyman (www.tavultesoft.com), KMFL +(kmfl.sf.net), XKB (http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB) or Ukelele +(scripts.sil.org/ukelele) can be helpful. + +Another method of entering some symbols is provided by a few applications +as Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice or gucharmap. They can display a glyph palette +that shows all the glyphs (symbols) in a font and allow you to enter them by +clicking on the glyph you want. + +Rendering: +Gentium also currently lacks any special font programming that can +substitute one glyph for another or position glyphs in a 'smart' way, such +as in OpenType, Apple Advanced Typography or SIL's Graphite. For example, +although Gentium includes an 'ffl' ligature, there are no special routines +in the font that will automatically substitute 'f'+'f'+'l' with 'ffl', but +an individual application might provide that feature. + + +INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION +============================== + +For installation tips - including using packages (installers) - please refer +to the documentation on http://scripts.sil.org/DecompressUtil + +CONTACT +======== +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> + |