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+Copying & License
+=================
+
+Norasi and Garuda, from The Thai Natinal Founts project, under TLWG's
+maintennace are licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2.
+Plese see GPL file at the top directory for the license material.
+
+
+Design Notes
+============
+
+Some aestheic and technical aspects of these founts
+
+
+Norasi
+------
+
+Norasi originated from Yannis's Omega serif fount. Yannis designed
+Omega serif for Omega type setting system based on Times New Roman
+typeface; one reason was to create a free typeface that has the look
+of widely used Times New Roman. The Omega-thai-serif and Nf3 founts, a
+prototype for Norasi, may be found in GNU's intlfonts distribution from
+ftp.gnu.org.
+
+Norasi was developped further -- by Dr. Virach Sornlertlamvanich and
+his teams, I beleive -- to be more technically corrected, according to
+the Thai National Founts project, and more aesthetically beautiful. Thai
+glyphes have more curves and are more well balanced in general; however,
+Latin glyphes was tampered. x-height was mechanically increased by plain
+scaling which makes minuscules (lowercase letters) look too big and too
+dark. Bold-weight was also mechanically embolden; thus, it looks plainly
+wrong and not compatible with Times Roman at all. At least we could see
+the benefits of having a bold-weight rather than not having one.
+
+Fortunately, URW release some of their implementation of standard
+PostScript founts under GPL licence including Times Roman compatiple --
+URW Nimbus Roman. Therefore, we have taken the route to restore Norasi's
+aesthetic of Times Roman. By borrowing glypes from URW Nimbus Roman,
+Omega, and Txr founts in order to give Norasi a full family of face that
+one can depends on a daily usages ranging from office communication to
+mathematical typesetting.
+
+There are still a few things left to be complete for Norasi: real Thai
+italic glyphes, real Thai bold glyphes, and real Thai bold-italic
+glyphes. The aim is to draw these new glyphes in the spirit of Yannis's
+original ones.