README
1Cyrillized free URW fonts.
2
3These fonts were made from the free URW fonts distributed with ghostcript.
4There are NO changes in the latin part of them (I hope).
5Cyrillic glyphs were added by copying suitable latin ones
6and painting oulines of unique cyrillic glyphs in same style as the others.
7For all modification pfaedit was used.
8The license for result is (of course) same as for original fonts,
9i.e. GPL with an exception that you can put these fonts in your own non-GPLed
10documents. (Looks like LGPL from my point of view =).
11
12The "sources" of these fonts in the native pfaedit format are available
13at ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/sources
14
15The great font editor pfaedit is available at http://pfaedit.sf.net.
16That page also includes some links to fonts created by
17George Williams -- the author of pfaedit.
18
19Acknowledgements:
20I would like to thank George Williams, the pfaedit's author and developer.
21He is the most bug-reporter/feature-requester friendly developer
22I ever saw in my not so short life. At some moment in the future
23I must write a book about him: "George Williams and my best experience
24in bug-reporting." George also greatly helped me bug-hunting these fonts,
25explained to me some very important things about fonts and font design,
26quickly adopted pfaedit to my needs (or pointed me to The Right Place in
27documentation where I found better way of doing things).
28
29I would like to thank Alexey Novodvorsky (aka AEN), who
30pointed me to pfaedit and George Williams' fonts, explained
31The Task to me. He is also one of the main participators in the
32development of Sysiphus -- free repository of free software.
33I didn't loose my time for compiling/installing and supporting
34my linux box coz I used the result of Sysiphus developers' works.
35
36I would like to thank Sergey Vlasov, who tested these fonts and reported
37about bugs. Also he help me to make some bug-reports to George about
38pfaedit bugs.
39
40I would like Dmitry 40in, who did big QA for some font outlines, drawn some glyphs,
41and explain some The Truths for me.
42
43I would like to thank Vlad Harchev (aka hvv), who
44proofread this text for me.
45
46Also I have to thank RMS for GPL and URW for releasing the fonts
47under it.
48
49Thank you very much!
50Valek Filippov frob@df.ru
51(C)opyLeft 2001
README.tweaks
1Nimbus Sans L Regular, Nimbus Mono L Regular, Nimbus Mono L Oblique
2all come from a more recent version of the cyrillic URW fonts.
3
4The hints on Nimbus Sans Regular have been modified in the
5following ways:
6
725 June 2002
8
9 - Added ghost hint to the top of 4 to keep it from being
10 taller than the other digits.
11 - Reduced the width of the left stem hint for H to 83
12 (probably no real differences)
13 - Changed the StemSnapV values from [78 85 94] to [78 83 92]
14 (and fixed up StdVW accordingly)
15 This corresponds to the values in the font (which are 83/93
16 for lower case and upper case stems) better and makes
17 the width-88 stems on M and N snap to to upper case
18 widths not lower-case widths.
19
2029 June 2002
21
22 - Removed odd vertical stem hints (width of horizontal
23 stems) from f, F, t, E, yen sign, fi ligature,
24 fl ligature, AE ligature, R, Lstroke, OE ligature,
25 lstroke, E" variants, t, variants, Eth, Dstoke, etc.
26 - Fixed hints on 1 to be two ghost hints instead of one
27 hint the height of the font
28 - fix bottom stem of u to have integer coordinates
29 - fixed hints on |
30 - fixed hints on inverted exclamation mark
31
32The hints on Nimbus Mono L Oblique have been modified in the
33following ways:
34
35 - Removed vertical stem hints from horizontal serifs on
36 roman characters.
37
38Owen Taylor
39