1- 2M+ BITMAP FONTS Copyright 2002-2005 COZ <coz@users.sourceforge.jp> 3- 4 5README 6 7 8 9 10M+ BITMAP FONTS were designed to be simple and highly readable. 11It incorporates all Kanji (Chinese character in Japanese) until 12level 2 (the one described in JISX0208). 13 14With the increasing availability of powerful PCs, scalable fonts and 15anti-aliasing, one could question the need of such fonts nowadays, 16slow PCs and the increasing popularity of mobile phone with limited resources 17etc. are still in need of such font, 18and I have there started creating this font foundry at my own pace. 19 20 21 22 23Through the provided shell script "install_mplus_fonts", the following 24fonts will be installed. 25 26 27Latin fonts 28 29+ mplus-fxd (10, 12 dots) 30 Created as an alternative to the "fixed" font. 31 - 32 mplus_f10r 33 mplus_f10r-euro *1 34 mplus_f12r 35 mplus_f12r-euro *1 36 mplus_f10b 37 mplus_f10b-euro *1 38 mplus_f12b 39 mplus_f12b-euro *1 40 41+ mplus-hlv (10, 12 dots) 42 Created as an alternative to the "helvetica" font. 43 - 44 mplus_h10r 45 mplus_h10r-euro *1 46 mplus_h12r 47 mplus_h12r-euro *1 48 mplus_h10b 49 mplus_h10b-euro *1 50 mplus_h12b 51 mplus_h12b-euro *1 52 53+ mplus-hlvw (10, 12 dots) 54 The space between character compared with "mplus-hlv (h12r)" being slightly 55 increased the readibility of small fonts on large displays increases. 56 - 57 mplus_h12rw 58 mplus_h12rw-euro *1 59 60+ mplus-sys (10 dots) 61 Prepared for display in window titles and menu. 62 - 63 mplus_s10r 64 mplus_s10r-euro *1 65 mplus_s10b 66 mplus_s10b-euro *1 67 68+ mplus-qub (6 dots) 69 Minimum 6 dot size font. 70 - 71 mplus_q06r 72 mplus_q06r-euro *1 73 74*1 Euro symbol (iso8859-15) 75 76 77Japanese Fonts 78 79+ Aliases are set for future mappings of the fonts (mplus_j10*,mplus_j12*). 80 "jisx0208.1983-0" -> "jisx0208.1990-0" 81 82+ mplus-gothic (10, 12 dots) 83 - 84 mplus_j10r (*1) 85 mplus_j10r-jisx 86 mplus_j10r-iso 87 mplus_j10b (*1) 88 mplus_j10b-jisx 89 mplus_j10b-iso 90 mplus_j12r 91 mplus_f12r-jisx 92 mplus_f12r-iso 93 mplus_j12b 94 mplus_f12b-jisx 95 mplus_f12b-iso 96 97+ mplus-goth_p (10, 12 dots) 98 This font is the "mplus-gothic" fonts described up here with the 99 roman characters set as proportional. 100 In browsers like Mozilla, it might be difficult to read though. 101 Please set your browser preferences with 102 pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.enable",false). 103 - 104 mplus_h10r-jisx 105 mplus_h10r-iso 106 mplus_h10b-jisx 107 mplus_h10b-iso 108 mplus_h12r-jisx 109 mplus_h12r-iso 110 mplus_h12b-jisx 111 mplus_h12b-iso 112 113*1 Incorporates level 1 Kanji characters. 114 Now, I'm working to finish all level 2 Kanji characters. 115 116 117M+ cursors 118 119+ mplus_cursors.bdf 120 You will need to edit shell script "install_mplus_fonts" to install it. 121 Please read the explanations in the provided file INSTALL_E. 122 123 124 125 126Anonymous CVS Access 127 128 129M+ BITMAP FONTS CVS repository can be checked out through 130anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction set. 131 1321. "cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.jp:/cvsroot/mplus-fonts login" 133 1342. When prompted for a password like "CVS password: ", 135 simply press the Enter key. 136 1373. "cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.jp:/cvsroot/mplus-fonts \ 138 co mplus_bitmap_fonts" 139 140To update, hit the following command in "mplus_bitmap_fonts" directory. 141 1424. "cvs update -dP" 143 144You will need to run install script "install_mplus_fonts" again. 145 146 147Latest informations can be found at the following project address. 148 149M+ BITMAP FONTS 150http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-bitmap-fonts/index.html 151 152 153 154 155M+ OUTLINE FONTS 156 157Free Japanese outline fonts project "M+ OUTLINE FONTS", start working! 158See. also, 159 160http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/index.html 161(Japanese) 162 163 164 165 166[ Special thanks to Mr.Guillaume Proux ] 167