-*-text-*- $Id: CREDITS,v 1.10 2002/02/05 09:55:22 peterlin Exp $ This file lists the contributors and contributions to the free UCS scalable font project. * URW++ Design & Development GmbH URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the Ghostscript project , 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 and John Plaice Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting system, . 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 . 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 (*) Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts, . 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 . Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F) Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF) * Young U. Ryu 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 . Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF) * Angelo Haritsis Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, available on . 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 under GPL. Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F) * Shaheed R. Haque Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs (without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under the XFree86 license at . Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque . 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 Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on . 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) * Primo¾ Peterlin Primo¾ Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there, and created the following UCS blocks: 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 the contributor has not yet issued a written agreement on their work being used in part of this glyph collection.