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LOFP - Libertine Open Fonts Project
1. OPEN FONTS PROJECT'S AIMS
We work on a serif font-family for practical use in documents. This project aims at creating a free alternative to the standard W*ndows Font (T*mes).
But neveretheless Libertine is not a clone of any common font! It has been developed from scratch and it goes different ways in typography than the Times. Just the useability and the dimensions shall be similar, Libertine should be even better for typical office use! If you want a Times-clone go elsewhere! If you just need reliable and good typography give this font a chance. If you want to know more about the design of Libertine, have a look at our website.
2. LICENSE AND OPENSOURCE
We publish our fonts under the terms of the GPL (see GPL.txt) and OFL (OFL.txt)
-> see also LICENCE.txt!
The OpenSource-tool Fontforge is used as font editor (see http://fontforge.sf.net).
3. FONT FORMATS TTF VS. OTF
The font files are available as TTF (TrueType) and OTF (OpenType) fonts. The TTF-Family is called "LinuxLibertine" and the OTF "LinuxLibertine O" so that both types can be installed and used parallely.
We recommend TTF for most users. OTF is especially useful for Windows users (Hinting) and *.dfont for Mac-Users. The advanced typographic features like ligature substitution and Small Capitals, ... may be availible in the OTF only.
4. HINTING
The TrueType-hinting is a complex technique and our editor FontForge doesn't support it quite well... So the normal TTFs are not hinted. This most often doesn't have any effect on linux systems (where freetype autohinter does a quite satisfying job). On windows systems you might have problems (especially M$ Word relies on hinting). Then you have two options: Take either the Hinted TTF (in the special subdirectory) or the OpenType (which contains PS-Hintings which are quite good supported).
5. DOWNLOAD AND CONTACT
We publish our fonts at http://linuxlibertine.sf.net.
6. THE UNDERLINED VARIANT
Some people liked our idea of a real underlined. The advantage of this font is that g, commas, cedillas... are not overprinted by the line anymore. For technical reasons the space is not underlined but you can use the _ instead. In this font it has the width of the space and the line is at hight of the underline.
CTAN NOTE:
2008-Jul-14 Some corrections have been added to the sourceforge version by Nikolaus Breuer, with permission of the author, to make Linux installation easier.
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