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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/gnu-freefont/CREDITS b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/gnu-freefont/CREDITS index 0f47440d9db..66396e721b2 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/gnu-freefont/CREDITS +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/gnu-freefont/CREDITS @@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F) - * Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org> Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs @@ -357,6 +356,12 @@ precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence
Produced by DMS Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode. +These glyphs were later replaced by those from the LKLUG font +<http://www.lug.lk/fonts/lklug> + +Finally the range was completely replaced by glyphs from the sinh TeX +font, with much help and advice from Harshula Jayasuriya. + Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF) @@ -515,8 +520,56 @@ of ancient sources. Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to -fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. +fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. Then he made Unified Canadian +Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono! And never to be +outdone by himself, then did UCAS Extended and Osmanya.... What next? + + Armenian (serif) (U+0530-U+058F) Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF) + Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (U+1400-U+167F) + UCAS Extended (U+18B0-U+18F5) + Kayah Li (U+A900-U+A92F) + Tifinagh (U+2D30-U+2D7F) + Vai (U+A500-U+A62B) + Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters) (U+A720-U+A7FF) + Osmanya (U+10480-U+104a7) + +* Yannis Haralambous and Wellcome Institute + +In 1994, The Wellcome Library + The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine + 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England. +commissioned Mr. Haralambous to produce a Sinhalese font for them. + +We have received 03/09 official notice from Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy +for the Wellcome Library, that Yannis' font could be included in GNU +FreeFont under its GNU license. + +Thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, for providing us with feedback and contacts +to repsonsible people at the Trust. + + Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF) + +* The Sinhala font project http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/ + +The Sinhala font project has taken the glyphs from Yannis Haralambous' +Sinhala font, to produce a Unicode TrueType font, LKLUG. These glyphs +were for a while included in FreeFont. + + Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF) + +* Steve White <stevan_white AT googlemail.com> + +Filled in a lot of missing characters, got some font features working, +left fingerprints almost everywhere, and is responsible for these blocks: + + Glagolitic (U+2C00-U+2C5F) + Coptic (U+2C80-U+2CFF) + +* Pavel Skrylev is responsible for + Cyrillic Extended-A (U+2DEO-U+2DFF) + as well as many of the additions to + Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640-U+A65F) Notes: @@ -525,4 +578,4 @@ Notes: this glyph collection. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -$Id: CREDITS,v 1.23 2009/01/04 15:57:54 Stevan_White Exp $ +$Id: CREDITS,v 1.28 2010/09/11 13:24:11 Stevan_White Exp $ |