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   3  
   4  This file lists the contributors and contributions to the free UCS
   5  scalable font project.
   6  
   7  
   8  * URW++ Design & Development GmbH <http://www.urwpp.de/>
   9  
  10  URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the
  11  Ghostscript project <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>, to be available
  12  under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL).
  13  
  14      Basic Latin                (U+0041-U+007A)
  15      Latin-1 Supplement                      (U+00C0-U+00FF)
  16      Latin Extended-A                        (U+0100-U+017F)
  17      Spacing Modifier Letters        (U+02B0-U+02FF)
  18      Mathematical Operators            (U+2200-U+22FF)
  19      Block Elements                (U+2580-U+259F)
  20      Dingbats                (U+2700-U+27BF)
  21  
  22  
  23  * Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John
  24    Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>
  25  
  26  Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega
  27  typesetting system, <http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au/>. Omega is an
  28  extension of TeX. Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's
  29  multilingual abilities. In Omega all characters and pointers into
  30  data-structures are 16-bit wide, instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating
  31  many of the trivial limitations of TeX. Omega also allows multiple
  32  input and output character sets, and uses programmable filters to
  33  translate from one encoding to another, to perform contextual
  34  analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode
  35  standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not
  36  only make it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or
  37  complex languages, like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or
  38  Korean, in one document, but will also form the basis for future
  39  developments in other areas, such as native color support and
  40  hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) and UT2 (omah
  41  family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript format
  42  and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. (from the
  43  Omega WWW site). Omega fonts are available subject to GPL
  44  <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/omegafonts.html>.
  45  
  46      Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)
  47      IPA Extensions                (U+0250-U+02AF)
  48      Greek                    (U+0370-U+03FF)
  49      Armenian                (U+0530-U+058F)
  50      Hebrew                    (U+0590-U+05FF)
  51      Arabic                    (U+0600-U+06FF)
  52      Currency Symbols            (U+20A0-U+20CF)
  53      Arabic Presentation Forms-A        (U+FB50-U+FDFF)
  54      Arabic Presentation Forms-B		(U+FE70-U+FEFF)
  55  
  56  
  57  * Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru>
  58  
  59  Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to
  60  the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core
  61  fonts, <ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/>. The fonts are available under
  62  GPL.
  63  
  64      Latin Extended-A                        (U+0100-U+017F)
  65      Cyrillic                (U+0400-U+04FF)
  66  
  67  
  68  * Wadalab Kanji Comittee
  69  
  70  Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together
  71  a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms:
  72  Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files are
  73  written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into
  74  Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji
  75  Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now
  76  found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering
  77  and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo
  78  <ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/>.
  79  
  80      Hiragana                (U+3040-U+309F)
  81      Katakana                (U+30A0-U+30FF)
  82  
  83  
  84  * Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu>
  85  
  86  Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols
  87  designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the
  88  documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The
  89  Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts
  90  for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < ,
  91  etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX
  92  fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times
  93  fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of
  94  that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts."
  95  TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license
  96  (GPL). Pointers to their location are available on
  97  <http://www.utdallas.edu/~ryoung/txfonts/>.
  98  
  99      Arrows                    (U+2190-U+21FF)
 100      Mathematical Symbols            (U+2200-U+22FF)
 101  
 102  
 103  * Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org>
 104  
 105  Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, available on
 106  <ftp://ftp.hellug.gr/pub/unix/linux/GREEK/fonts/greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz>.
 107  The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in
 108  FreeSans and FreeMono.
 109  
 110  Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for
 111  educational or commercial purposes.  All derived works should include
 112  this paragraph.  If you want to change something please let me have
 113  your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next
 114  version. You can also send comments etc to the above address."
 115  
 116      Greek                    (U+0370-U+03FF)
 117  
 118  
 119  * Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich
 120  
 121  In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of
 122  glyphs covering the Thai national standard NF3, in both upright and
 123  slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU
 124  intlfonts 1.2 package and is available on
 125  <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/> under GPL.
 126  
 127      Thai                    (U+0E00-U+0E7F)
 128  
 129  
 130  * Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>
 131  
 132  Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs
 133  (without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under
 134  the XFree86 license at <http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/>.
 135  
 136  Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>.  All Rights Reserved.
 137  
 138  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 139  a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
 140  "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
 141  without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
 142  distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
 143  permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
 144  the following conditions:
 145  
 146  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
 147  included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 148  
 149  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
 150  EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
 151  MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
 152  IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 153  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
 154  ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
 155  OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 156  
 157  Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be
 158  used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
 159  dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
 160  S.R.Haque.
 161  
 162      Bengali                    (U+0980-U+09FF)
 163  
 164  
 165  * Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com>
 166  
 167  Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually
 168  compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on
 169  <http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On
 170  2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for
 171  non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license."
 172  
 173      Armenian                (U+0530-U+058F)
 174  
 175  
 176  * Mohamed Ishan <ishan AT mitf.f2s.com>
 177  
 178  Mohamed Ishan has started a Thaana Unicode Project
 179  <http://thaana.sourceforge.net/> and among other things created a
 180  couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license.
 181  
 182      Thaana                    (U+0780-U+07BF)
 183  
 184  
 185  * Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com> (*)
 186  
 187  Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he
 188  states on his web page <http://members.tripod.com/~sushantdash/>:
 189  "Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No
 190  copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel
 191  free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for
 192  people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters
 193  home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya
 194  fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)."
 195  
 196      Oriya                    (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
 197  
 198  
 199  * Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com>
 200  
 201  Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha <http://www.bharatbhasha.net/> -
 202  an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes
 203  etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and
 204  Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages
 205  Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to
 206  users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian
 207  languages."
 208  
 209      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 210      Bengali                    (U+0980-U+09FF)
 211      Gurmukhi                (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
 212      Gujarati                (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
 213  
 214  
 215  * Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com>
 216  
 217  Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type
 218  1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>. 
 219  Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs.
 220  Available under the GNU General Public License.
 221  
 222      Telugu                    (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
 223  
 224  
 225  * Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey
 226    <apandey AT u.washington.edu>
 227  
 228  In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The
 229  Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available
 230  under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington
 231  University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can
 232  be found on CTAN, <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>. I
 233  converted the font to Type 1 format using P-B�ter Szab�'s TeXtrace-A
 234  program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
 235  redundant control points with PfaEdit.
 236  
 237      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 238  
 239  
 240  * Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com>
 241  
 242  In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font,
 243  available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license
 244  says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are
 245  for non-profit use only." 
 246  
 247      Gurmukhi                (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
 248  
 249  
 250  * Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl>
 251  
 252  Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a
 253  set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as
 254  uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and
 255  modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to
 256  release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this
 257  notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN,
 258  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and
 259  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>.
 260  
 261      Oriya                    (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
 262      Malayalam                (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
 263  
 264  
 265  * Thomas Ridgeway <> (*)
 266  
 267  Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center,
 268  Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil
 269  metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over
 270  the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN,
 271  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/tamil/wntamil/>.
 272  
 273      Tamil                    (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
 274  
 275  
 276  * Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
 277    Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Olaf
 278    Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen Metzinger <?>
 279  
 280  Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations
 281  of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic
 282  metafonts, found on
 283  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also
 284  maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project,
 285  <http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>,
 286  and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The current
 287  version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I
 288  converted the fonts to Type 1 format using P-B�ter Szab�'s TeXtrace-A
 289  program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
 290  redundant control points with PfaEdit.
 291  
 292      Ethiopic                (U+1200-U+137F)
 293  
 294  
 295  * Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net>
 296  
 297  In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing
 298  Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of
 299  Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with
 300  URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono
 301  L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See
 302  also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>.
 303  
 304      Hebrew                    (U+0590-U+05FF)
 305  
 306  
 307  * Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis AT panayotis.com>
 308  
 309  Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek
 310  Extended area.
 311  
 312      Greek Extended                (U+1F00-U+1FFF)
 313  
 314  
 315  * Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru>
 316  
 317  Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged
 318  with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform
 319  scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed
 320  a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed
 321  from the "Carlo Ator" font freely downloadable from
 322  <http://www.aacf.asso.fr/>. Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing
 323  spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of
 324  subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers.
 325  
 326      Syriac                    (U+0700-U+074A)
 327      Box Drawing                (U+2500-U+257F)
 328      Braille                    (U+2800-U+28FF)
 329  
 330  
 331  * M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com>
 332  
 333  M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti
 334  Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released
 335  a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati,
 336  Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi)
 337  under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts
 338  from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site
 339  (http://www.gnu.org.in/software/software.html#akruti) or from the
 340  Akruti website.
 341  
 342  For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts,
 343  please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com.
 344  
 345      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 346      Bengali                    (U+0980-U+09FF)
 347      Gurmukhi                (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
 348      Gujarati                (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
 349      Oriya                    (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
 350      Tamil                    (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
 351      Telugu                    (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
 352      Kannada                    (U+0C80-U+0CFF)    
 353      Malayalam                (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
 354  
 355  
 356  * DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt
 357    <nlevitt AT columbia.edu>
 358  
 359  Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site
 360  <http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or,
 361  precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence
 362   Produced by DMS
 363  Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font
 364  comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode.
 365  
 366      Sinhala                    (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
 367         
 368  
 369  * Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com>
 370  
 371  Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic
 372  glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of
 373  the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X,
 374  <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>.
 375  
 376      Cyrillic                (U+0400-U+04FF)
 377  
 378  
 379  * Denis Jacquerye <moyogo AT gmail.com>
 380  
 381  Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the
 382  Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges.
 383  
 384      Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)
 385      IPA Extensions                (U+0250-U+02AF)
 386  
 387  
 388  * K.H. Hussain <hussain AT kfri.org> and R. Chitrajan
 389  
 390  `Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara
 391  Vedi, a team of socially committed information technology
 392  professionals and philologists, has applied developments in computer
 393  technology and desktop publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language
 394  from the disorder, fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered
 395  since the attempt to adapt the Malayalam script for using with a
 396  regular mechanical typewriter, which took place in
 397  1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute has
 398  released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required
 399  to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the
 400  glyphs in the OpenType table.
 401  
 402      Malayalam                (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
 403  
 404  
 405  * Solaiman Karim <solaiman AT ekushey.org>
 406  
 407      Bengali                    (U+0980-U+09FF)
 408  
 409  Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and
 410  released them under GNU GPL on www.ekushey.org.
 411  
 412  
 413  * Sonali Sonania <sonalisonania AT gmail.com> and Monika Shah
 414    <monikapatira AT gmail.com>
 415  
 416      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 417      Gujarati                (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
 418  
 419  Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101,Mahalakshmi
 420  Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore
 421  560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai,
 422  lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali
 423  Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released
 424  under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii
 425  Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC
 426  Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by
 427  TDIL, Govt. of India. Contact:monika_shah AT lycos.com,
 428  sonalisonania AT yahoo.com, jitendras AT vsnl.com, alka AT ncst.ernet.in.
 429  website: www.janabhaaratii.org.in.
 430  
 431  
 432  * Pravin Satpute <pravin_ind21 AT hotmail.com>, Bageshri Salvi
 433    <sbagrshri AT yahoo.co.in>, Rahul Bhalerao <rahul_pb_india AT
 434    yahoo.com> and Sandeep Shedmake <surgs2k47 AT yahoo.co.in>
 435  
 436      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 437      Gujarati                (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
 438      Oriya                    (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
 439      Malayalam                (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
 440      Tamil                    (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
 441  
 442  In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two
 443  Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font
 444  belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak
 445  Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation
 446  of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti
 447  and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard. You can
 448  download the font files (released under GNU/GPL License) from
 449  http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/font.htm
 450  
 451  
 452  * Kulbir Singh Thind
 453  
 454      Gurmukhi                (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
 455  
 456  Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts,
 457  AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU
 458  Generel Public Licens from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center,
 459  http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/.
 460  
 461  
 462  * Primož Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 463  
 464  Primož Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin
 465  Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and
 466  created the following UCS blocks:
 467  
 468      Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)
 469      IPA Extensions                (U+0250-U+02AF)
 470      Arrows                    (U+2190-U+21FF)
 471      Box Drawing                (U+2500-U+257F)
 472      Block Elements                (U+2580-U+259F)
 473      Geometrical Shapes            (U+25A0-U+25FF)
 474  
 475  
 476  Notes:
 477  
 478  *: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has
 479     not yet replied and agreed on his/her work being used in part of
 480     this glyph collection.