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This file lists the contributors and contributions to the free UCS

scalable font project.

# URW++ Design & Development GmbH <http://www.urwpp.de/>

URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the

Ghostscript project <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>, to be available

under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL).

	Basic Latin				(U+0041-U+007A)

	Latin-1 Supplement                      (U+00C0-U+00FF)

	Latin Extended-A                        (U+0100-U+017F)

	Spacing Modifier Letters		(U+02B0-U+02FF)

	Mathematical Operators			(U+2200-U+22FF)

	Block Elements				(U+2580-U+259F)

	Dingbats				(U+2700-U+27BF)

# Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John

  Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>

Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega

typesetting system, <http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au/>. Omega is an

extension of TeX. Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's

multilingual abilities. In Omega all characters and pointers into

data-structures are 16-bit wide, instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating

many of the trivial limitations of TeX. Omega also allows multiple

input and output character sets, and uses programmable filters to

translate from one encoding to another, to perform contextual

analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode

standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not

only make it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or

complex languages, like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or

Korean, in one document, but will also form the basis for future

developments in other areas, such as native color support and

hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) and UT2 (omah

family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript format

and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. (from the

Omega WWW site). Omega fonts are available subject to GPL

<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/omegafonts.html>.

	Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)

	IPA Extensions				(U+0250-U+02AF)

	Greek					(U+0370-U+03FF)

	Armenian				(U+0530-U+058F)

	Hebrew					(U+0590-U+05FF)

	Arabic					(U+0600-U+06FF)

	Currency Symbols			(U+20A0-U+20CF)

	Arabic Presentation Forms-A		(U+FB50-U+FDFF)

	Arabic Presentation Forms-B		(U+FE70-U+FEFF)

# Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru>

Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to

the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core

fonts, <ftp:#ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/>. The fonts are available under

GPL.

	Latin Extended-A                        (U+0100-U+017F)

	Cyrillic				(U+0400-U+04FF)

# Wadalab Kanji Comittee

Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together

a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms:

Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files are

written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into

Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji

Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now

found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering

and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo

<ftp:#ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/>.

	Hiragana				(U+3040-U+309F)

	Katakana				(U+30A0-U+30FF)

# Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu>

Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols

designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the

documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The

Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts

for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < ,

etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX

fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times

fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of

that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts."

TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license

(GPL). Pointers to their location are available on

<http://www.utdallas.edu/~ryoung/txfonts/>.

	Arrows					(U+2190-U+21FF)

	Mathematical Symbols			(U+2200-U+22FF)

# Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org>

Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, available on

<ftp:#ftp.hellug.gr/pub/unix/linux/GREEK/fonts/greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz>.

The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in

FreeSans and FreeMono.

Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for

educational or commercial purposes.  All derived works should include

this paragraph.  If you want to change something please let me have

your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next

version. You can also send comments etc to the above address."

	Greek					(U+0370-U+03FF)

# Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich

In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of

glyphs covering the Thai national standard NF3, in both upright and

slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU

intlfonts 1.2 package and is available on

<ftp:#ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/> under GPL.

	Thai					(U+0E00-U+0E7F)

# Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>

Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs

(without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under

the XFree86 license at <http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/>.

Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>.  All Rights Reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining

a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the

"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including

without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,

distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to

permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to

the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be

included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,

EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF

MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER

LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,

ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR

OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be

used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other

dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from

S.R.Haque.

	Bengali					(U+0980-U+09FF)

# Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com>

Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually

compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on

<http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On

2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for

non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license."

	Armenian				(U+0530-U+058F)

# Mohamed Ishan <ishan AT mitf.f2s.com>

Mohamed Ishan has started a Thaana Unicode Project

<http://thaana.sourceforge.net/> and among other things created a

couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license.

	Thaana					(U+0780-U+07BF)

# Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com> (*)

Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he

states on his web page <http://members.tripod.com/~sushantdash/>:

"Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No

copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel

free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for

people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters

home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya

fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)."

	Oriya					(U+0B00-U+0B7F)

# Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com>

Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha <http://www.bharatbhasha.net/> -

an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes

etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and

Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages

Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to

users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian

languages."

	Devanagari				(U+0900-U+097F)

	Bengali					(U+0980-U+09FF)

	Gurmukhi				(U+0A00-U+0A7F)

	Gujarati				(U+0A80-U+0AFF)

# Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com>

Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type

1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>. 

Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs.

Available under the GNU General Public License.

	Telugu					(U+0C00-U+0C7F)

# Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey

  <apandey AT u.washington.edu>

In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The

Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available

under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington

University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can

be found on CTAN, <ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>. I

converted the font to Type 1 format using P?ter Szab?'s TeXtrace

program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some

redundant control points with PfaEdit.

	Devanagari				(U+0900-U+097F)

# Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com>

In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font,

available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license

says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are

for non-profit use only." 

	Gurmukhi				(U+0A00-U+0A7F)

# Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl>

Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a

set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as

uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and

modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to

release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this

notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN,

<ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and

<ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>.

	Oriya					(U+0B00-U+0B7F)

	Malayalam				(U+0D00-U+0D7F)

# Thomas Ridgeway <> (*)

Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center,

Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil

metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over

the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN,

<ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/tamil/wntamil/>.

	Tamil					(U+0B80-U+0BFF)

# Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,

  Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Olaf

  Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen Metzinger <

Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations

of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic

metafonts, found on

<ftp:#ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also

maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project,

<http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>,

and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The current

version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I

converted the fonts to Type 1 format using P?ter Szab?'s TeXtrace

program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some

redundant control points with PfaEdit.

	Ethiopic				(U+1200-U+137F)

# Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net>

In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing

Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of

Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with

URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono

L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See

also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>.

	Hebrew					(U+0590-U+05FF)

# Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru>

Vyacheslav Dikonov made a braille unicode font that could be merged

with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform

scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed

a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed

from the "Carlo Ator" font freely downloadable from

<http://www.aacf.asso.fr/>. Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing

spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of

subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers.

	Syriac					(U+0700-U+074A)

	Box Drawing				(U+2500-U+257F)

	Braille					(U+2800-U+28FF)

# M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com>

M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti

Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released

a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati,

Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi)

under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts

from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site

(http://www.gnu.org.in/software/software.html#akruti) or from the

Akruti website.

For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts,

please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com.

	Devanagari				(U+0900-U+097F)

	Bengali					(U+0980-U+09FF)

	Gurmukhi				(U+0A00-U+0A7F)

	Gujarati				(U+0A80-U+0AFF)

	Oriya					(U+0B00-U+0B7F)

	Tamil					(U+0B80-U+0BFF)

	Telugu					(U+0C00-U+0C7F)

	Kannada					(U+0C80-U+0CFF)	

	Malayalam				(U+0D00-U+0D7F)

# DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt

  <nlevitt AT columbia.edu>

Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site

<http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or,

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.

	Sinhala					(U+0D80-U+0DFF)

# Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com>

Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic

glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of

the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X,

<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>.

	Cyrillic				(U+0400-U+04FF)

# Primo? Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>

Primo? Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin

Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and

created the following UCS blocks:

	Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)

	IPA Extensions				(U+0250-U+02AF)

	Arrows					(U+2190-U+21FF)

	Box Drawing				(U+2500-U+257F)

	Block Elements				(U+2580-U+259F)

	Geometrical Shapes			(U+25A0-U+25FF)

Notes:

*: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has

   not yet replied and agreed on his/her work being used in part of

   this glyph collection.