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<vendor name="SIL International" url="http://scripts.sil.org" />

<credits>

<credit

name="Victor Gaultney"

url="http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/"

role="Original Designer" />

<credit

name="Annie Olsen"

url="http://scripts.sil.org/"

role="Contributed some extended Latin glyphs" />

<credit

name="Iska Routamaa"

url="http://scripts.sil.org/"

role="Contributed some extended Latin glyphs and extensive work on the italic" />

<credit

name="SIL font engineers"

url="http://scripts.sil.org/"

role="OpenType code and build support" />

</credits>

<description>

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Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family

designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use

the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality

publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably

compact, and visually attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence

in Typeface Design" in two major international typeface design competitions:

bukva:raz! (2001), TDC2003 (2003).

The Gentium Plus font family is based on the original design. It currently

comes with regular and italic face only, although additional weights are in

develoment.

The goal for this product is to provide a single Unicode-based font family

that contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any

Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or

orthographic needs, and provide a matching Greek face. In addition, there

is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This

font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex

typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations

of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.

Two fonts from this typeface family are included in this release:

* Gentium Plus Regular

* Gentium Plus Italic

Work is ongoing to provide bold and bold-italic weights, as well as a

complete book-weight family.

For detailed documentation see the contents of the 'documentation' folder.

ChangeLog

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(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)

1 Sep 2010 (SIL NRSI team) Gentium Plus version 1.501-test beta release

- FOR TESTING ONLY

- Regular and Italic weights only

- New OpenType and Graphite support

- New extended Cyrillic script support, inc. Serbian alternates

- Character set and features up to same level as Charis SIL 4.106

- Support for more historic Greek characters and alternate seriffed beta

- No separate GentiumAlt fonts (replaced by font features)

28 Nov 2005 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.02

- Changed licensing to the SIL Open Font License

- Included FontLab source files

- Fixed some duplicate PostScript glyph names

- Fixed italic angle

19 Sep 2003 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.01

- Maintenance release focused on changing internal font

- Information to reflect the changeover to an SIL project

- There is only one bug fix - the Greek mu PS name was changed to try and fix

a display/printing problem. There is still no manual hinting.

16 Sep 2002 (Victor Gaultney) Gentium version 1.00

- First public release

- No manual hinting is included in this version. Some has been done - with

good results - but is not yet complete enough.

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<license url="http://scripts.sil.org/ofl"

id="org.sil.ofl.11">

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Copyright (c) 2003-2010 SIL International (http://www.sil.org/),

with Reserved Font Names "Gentium" and "SIL".

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:

http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

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SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007

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PREAMBLE

The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide

development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation

efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and

open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership

with others.

The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and

redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The

fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded,

redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved

names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,

however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The

requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply

to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.

DEFINITIONS

"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright

Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may

include source files, build scripts and documentation.

"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the

copyright statement(s).

"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as

distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).

"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,

or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the

Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a

new environment.

"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical

writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.

PERMISSION &amp; CONDITIONS

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

a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,

redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font

Software, subject to the following conditions:

1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,

in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.

2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,

redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy

contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be

included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or

in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or

binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.

3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font

Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding

Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as

presented to the users.

4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font

Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any

Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the

Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written

permission.

5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,

must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be

distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to

remain under this license does not apply to any document created

using the Font Software.

TERMINATION

This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are

not met.

DISCLAIMER

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

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

MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT

OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,

INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL

DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING

FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM

OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

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</license>

<copyright>

<text xml:lang="en">Copyright (c) 2003-2010 SIL International (http://www.sil.org/)</text>

</copyright>

<trademark>

<text xml:lang="en">Gentium is a trademark of SIL International</text>

</trademark>

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