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http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php? site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_basic best, - gustavo. ps: i wonder why this has not been annouced here? Begin forwarded message: > Date: 15 de novembro de 2007 5h50min53s PST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Tipografia] [Gentium] Update #5 - Gentium Basic and > Gentium Book Basic available for testing > Reply-To: Lista de discussão de Tipografia e Caligrafia (em > português) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gentium-Announce List > Update #5 - Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic available for testing > - - - - - - - - > > Dear friends of Gentium, > > Great news! We have been hard at work to complete the first > versions of > Gentium that include bold and bold italic. For the first time in > many years > we have a major release for you - in a preliminary test version. > > We have two new font families in the Gentium clan: Gentium Basic > and Gentium > Book Basic. Each has a complete set of four weights: regular, > italic, bold > and bold italic. Gentium Book Basic is generally heavier than the > original > Gentium and better for some publishing uses. Both families also > include a > few OpenType and Graphite smart font features, including optimized > diacritic > positioning. I've appended parts of the Gentium Basic FONTLOG below > to give > you more detailed information on these fonts. > > The new fonts are called 'Basic' because they support a smaller set of > characters than the full Gentium fonts. They only support basic > Latin and a > handful of extended Latin characters. There is no Greek or > Cyrillic, or even > full IPA. The purpose is to provide early versions of the new > weights that > meet the needs of most Latin script users. > > Never fear - we haven't abandoned the main Gentium fonts. Our next > task will > be to return to them and complete an update of the existing regular > and > italic to add extended Cyrillic, ancient Greek glyphs, Unicode 5.1 > updates, > and smart font capabilities. We'd hoped to have this completed by > now, but > wanted to get the new weights to you as soon as we could. After > that we plan > to expand the main Gentium family to include these new weights and > smart > font code. > > The new Basic fonts are only available in beta test right now. They > contain > known bugs, so we don't yet recommend them for everyday production > use, or > as the source for derivative versions. The most serious one is that > the > lowercase 'z' has too much space in the heavier italic weights. We > plan to > release a fixed, final release of the Basic fonts in a month or > two, once > initial broad testing is done. So we welcome your bug reports and > general > opinions on the design of the heavier faces. > > The beta test fonts are available at: > > http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_basic > > A few requests: > > - please note the limitations and known problems > - please do not ask us to expand the Basic character set, as those > needs > will be met by the complete Gentium font family > - please report problems to me at the email address below, not via the > download feedback form on the main Gentium download page > > Thanks again for your interest in Gentium, and the many encouraging > emails > you have sent. > > > Victor Gaultney > Gentium /at/ sil.org > > > > ========================================================== > FONTLOG > Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic v1.1b1 (test release) > ========================================================== > > > This file provides detailed information on the Gentium Basic and > Gentium > Book Basic font families. This information should be distributed > along with > the Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic fonts and any derivative > works. > > NOTE: These fonts are intended only for preliminary testing, as > they contain > bugs. Many aspects of the fonts, including glyph metrics, may > change before > the final release. > > > Basic Font Information > ---------------------- > > Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface > family > designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world > who use > the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. > The design > is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually > attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in > Typeface Design" > in two major international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! > (2001), > TDC2003 (2003). > > The Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic font families are based on > the > original design, but with additional weights. The "Book" family is > slightly > heavier. Both families come with a complete regular, bold, italic > and bold > italic set of fonts. > > The supported character set, however, is much smaller than for the > main > Gentium fonts. These "Basic" fonts support only the Basic Latin and > Latin-1 > Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly used > extended Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks, > symbols and > punctuation. For a complete list of supported characters see the > list at the > end of this document. > > In particular, these fonts do not support: > > - Full extended Latin IPA > - Complete support for Central European languages > - Greek > - Cyrillic > - Any SIL PUA characters (although note that some previously PUA > are now in > Unicode 5.1, and included) > > A much more complete character set will be supported in a future > version of > the complete Gentium fonts. These "Basic" fonts are intended as a > way to > provide additional weights for basic font users without waiting > until the > complete Gentium character set is finished. So please don't request > additional glyphs or characters to be supported in the Basic fonts > - such > support will become available in the main Gentium family in the > future. > > There are also some other limitations of the Basic fonts: > > - They are not completely metric-compatible with the full Gentium > family > (some glyphs may have different widths, although changes have been > minimal) > - There is no kerning > - There are no "Alt" versions, or ones with low-profile diacritics > - The default stacking style for some diacritic combinations does > not match > Vietnamese-style conventions (although this may change in the final > release) > > There are, however, some wonderful new features that are still > missing from > the main Gentium family: > > - Bold! > - Bold Italic! > - The slightly-heavier Book family! > - OpenType and Graphite smart code for diacritic placement! > - A few useful OpenType and Graphite features > - Support for a few more recent additions to Unicode > - Character assignments are updated to conform to Unicode 5.1 > > In particular, the Basic fonts support a subset of the smart font > features > that the Doulos SIL font supports. Those features are: > > - Capital Eng alternates > - Literacy alternates > - Capital Y-hook alternate > - Capital N-left-hook alternate > - Modifier apostrophe alternate > - Modifier colon alternate > - Open o alternate > - Vietnamese-style diacritics > > More detail on the features can be seen in the Doulos SIL Technical > Documentation (link: http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSIL_Technical). > > > Known Problems > -------------- > > We know of the following problems with this test release, all of > which will > be fixed in the final release. Please report any other problems you > encounter. > > - The spacing of lowercase 'z' and related composites is much too > wide in > three faces: Gentium Basic Bold Italic, Gentium Book Basic Italic, > Gentium > Book Basic Bold Italic. That's enough reason to avoid using this test > release in production enviroments! > - The width of the space glyph in those same three fonts is too > wide and > will be reduced. > - Capital and lowercase barred-o have dropouts due to overlapping > contours. > - The cedilla, ogonek and hook diacritics do not combine correctly > with base > glyphs when using Graphite rendering. > - The sizes of the capital and lowercase saltillo are incorrect. > - Cursors may not slant correctly for italic fonts. > - No TypeTuner support. > > > ChangeLog > --------- > (This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.) > > 12 Nov 2007 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium Basic/Gentium Book Basic > version > 1.1b1 > - trimmed character set down to Basic > - added additional weights > - no FontLab source files > > 28 Nov 2005 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.02 > - Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License > - Included FontLab source files > - Fixed some duplicate PostScript glyphs names > - Fixed italic angle > > 19 Sep 2003 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.01 > - Maintenance release focused on changing internal font > - Information to reflect the changeover to an SIL project > - There is only one bug fix - the Greek mu PS name was changed to > try and > fix a display/printing problem. There is still no manual hinting > > 16 Sep 2002 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.00 > - First public release > - No manual hinting is included in this version. Some has been done > - with > good results - but is not yet complete enough. > > > Information for Contributors > ---------------------------- > > We currently do not encourage contributions - or derivative works - at > present as there are significant bugs in these test fonts and many > things > may and will change. > > > Acknowledgements > ---------------- > (Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make > modifications > be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and > description > (D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.) > > N: Victor Gaultney > W: http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/ > D: Original Designer of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs > > N: Annie Olsen > W: http://scripts.sil.org/ > D: Contributed some extended Latin glyphs > > N: SIL font engineers > W: http://scripts.sil.org/ > D: OpenType code and build support > > The Gentium project, and the Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic > fonts, are > maintained by SIL International. > > 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> > > > Character Range Coverage > ------------------------ > > C0 Controls and Basic Latin (U+0020..U+007E) > C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement (U+00A0..U+00FF) > Latin Extended-A (U+0100..U+0103, U+0106..U+010E, U+011A..U+0121, > U+0124..U+0125, U+0128..U+012D, U+0130..U+0133, U+0139..U+013A, > U+0141..U+0144, U+0147..U+0148, U+014A..U+0155, U+0158..U+015D, > U+0160..U+0161, U+0164, U+0168..U+0171, U+00174..U+017E) > Latin Extended-B (U+0181, U+0186, U+0189..U+018A, U+018E, U+0190, U > +0192, > U+0197..U+019A, U+019D, U+019F..U+01A1, U+01A9..U+01AA, U+01AF..U > +01B0, > U+01B3..U+01B4, U+01B7, U+01CD..U+01E3, U+01E6..U+01E9, U+01EE..U > +01EF, > U+01F4..U+01F5, U+01F8..U+01FF, U+021E..U+021F, U+0226..U+0233, U > +0237, > U+023D, U+0241..U+0242, U+0244..U+0245, U+024A..U+024B) > IPA Extensions (U+0251, U+0253..U+0254, U+0256..U+0257, U+0259, U > +025B, > U+0263, U+0268..U+0269, U+026B, U+0272, U+0275, U+0283, U+0289..U > +028A, > U+028C, U+0292, U+0294, U+02A0) > Spacing Modifier Letters (U+02BC, U+02C0, U+02C6..U+02C7, U+02C9..U > +02CB, > U+02CD, U+02D7..U+02DD) > Combining Diacritical Marks (U+0300..U+0304,U+0306..U+030C, U+031B, > U+0323, > U+0327..U+0328, U+0331, U+033F, U+035F) > Greek and Coptic (U+03A0, U+03A9, U+03C0) > Latin Extended Additional (U+1E02..U+1E0F, U+1E14..U+1E17, U+1E1C..U > +1E27, > U+1E2E..U+1E3B, U+1E3E..U+1E49, U+1E4C..U+1E6F, U+1E78..U+1E99, > U+1EA0..U+1EF9) > General Punctuation (U+2013..U+2014, U+2018..U+201A, U+201C..U+201E, > U+2020..U+2022, U+2026, U+2030, U+2039..U+203A, U+2044) > Currency Symbols (U+20AC) > Letterlike Symbols (U+2122..U+2123, U+2126) > Mathematical Operators (U+2202, U+2205..U+2206, U+220F, U+2211..U > +2212, > U+2219..U+221A, U+221E, U+222B, U+2248, U+2260, U+2264..U+2265) > Geometric Shapes (U+25CA) > Latin Extended-C (U+2C60..U+2C62) > Modifier Tone Letters (U+A700..U+A71A) > Latin Extended-D (U+A789..U+A78C) > Alphabetic Presentation Forms (U+FB01..U+FB02) > > > > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary