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diff --git a/host/resources/fonts/submission/README b/host/resources/fonts/submission/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..598e5b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/host/resources/fonts/submission/README @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +ISO 10646-1 update of the fixed fonts +------------------------------------- + +Markus Kuhn <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- 2000-12-10 + +This is an update of all -Misc-Fixed-* fonts in the subdirectory + + xc/fonts/bdf/misc/ + +We have extended all old -Misc-Fixed-* fonts from their original ISO +646.119-IRV or ISO 8859-1 repertoire to a comprehensive repertoire in +the ISO 10646-1 encoding (UCS, Unicode). All extended fonts have been +carefully tested to cover a repertoire that includes all characters +found in ISO 6937, ISO 8859-1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,13,14,15,16, and +CP1251/1252. The non-bold/italic fonts also cover the Adobe/Microsoft +WGL4 repertoire, which includes the characters of all MS-DOS code +pages. Some fonts (6x13, 9x15, 9x18, 10x20) cover considerably more, +including the full European Unicode subset CEN MES-3B, which covers +all Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian, Thai, phonetic, and +mathematical characters. + +Eight new ISO 10646-1 fonts were added, for which there was no +equivalent version in the X11R6.4 distribution before, and which +should be highly useful: + + 6x13O.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Semicondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1 + 7x13O.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1 + 8x13O.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1 + 9x18.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1 + 9x18B.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1 + 12x13ja.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1 + 18x18ja.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-18-120-100-100-C-180-ISO10646-1 + 18x18ko.bdf -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ko-18-120-100-100-C-180-ISO10646-1 + +6x13O and 8x13O are oblique/italic fonts. 9x18 is an improved variant +of 9x15 designed to have enough space to allow the unproblematic use +of overstriking combining characters, 18x18ja and 18x18ko provide +Japanese and Korean doublewidth ideographic characters for 9x18, and +12x13ja provides Japanese and Hangul doublewidth ideographic +characters for 6x13. + +This update contains not only new ISO10646-1 fonts, but also a +collection of 8-bit fonts that were automatically generated from the +ISO10646-1 fonts. All these derived 8-bit fonts have the +-REGISTRY-ENCODING part of the XLFD in the filename (e.g., +6x13-ISO8859-1.bdf). Some of these derived fonts replace old 8-bit +fonts (with some stylistic improvements and bug fixes), others provide +new urgently needed 8-bit encoding alternatives for very widely-used +font sizes. + +The ISO10646-1 fonts in this package (except for 12x13ja, 18x18ja, and +18x18ko) contain no characters above 0x31FF. This avoids the very +inefficient allocation and transmission of a >700 kB large XFontStruct +structure, which would happen if the (not very important) ligatures +and symbols above 0xf000 were present. + +Installation instructions: + + - Only the directory xc/fonts/bdf/misc/ (if you patch the X source + distribution) or /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ (if you patch a system + installation) will be affected by this update. + + - Do in xc/fonts/bdf/misc/ or /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ a + + rm 7x13euro.bdf 7x13euroB.bdf heb6x13.bdf heb8x13.bdf 7x14rk.bdf + + because these old 8-bit files are now superseeded by the new + *-ISO8859-15.bdf, *-ISO8859-8.bdf, and *-JISX0201.1976-0 files. + + - If you patch the X source tree, move from this tarball the files + + *.bdf fonts.alias Imakefile + + into xc/fonts/bdf/misc/. + + - If you patch an installed system, move instead from this package + the files + + *.pcf.gz fonts.alias + + into /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ and then call "mkfontdir" there + and also execute "xset fp rehash". + +The new *-*.bdf files will not be necessary any more as soon as the +font reencoding engine in the BDF backend is operational, because then +these encodings can be generated by the X server automatically and +on-the-fly from the ISO 10646-1 files (perhaps in XFree86 4.1?). + +The font files in this package were all automatically generated by a +few Perl scripts. Please do not edit these font files if you want to +make contributions. Instead, if you want to edit the fonts, please get +the latest original BDF files in + + http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz + +which also contains the ucs2any.pl and bdftruncate.pl scripts and the +encoding mapping files that were used to generate all the font files +found in this tarball. See also the README file in there for further +hints on how to use these fonts. + +This package is available from + + http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fixed.tar.gz + +Please send any feedback and patches related to these fonts to + + Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk + +or to + + fonts@xfree86.org + +Markus + +-- +Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK |