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   2                           GNU FreeFont Credits
   3                           ====================
   4  
   5  This file lists contributors and contributions to the GNU FreeFont project.
   6  
   7  
   8  * URW++ Design & Development GmbH <http://www.urwpp.de/>
   9  
  10  URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the
  11  Ghostscript project <http://www.ghostscript.com/>, to be available
  12  under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL).
  13  
  14      Basic Latin                (U+0041-U+007A)
  15      Latin-1 Supplement                      (U+00C0-U+00FF)
  16      Latin Extended-A                        (U+0100-U+017F)
  17      Spacing Modifier Letters        (U+02B0-U+02FF)
  18      Mathematical Operators            (U+2200-U+22FF)
  19      Block Elements                (U+2580-U+259F)
  20      Dingbats                (U+2700-U+27BF)
  21  
  22  
  23  * Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John
  24    Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>
  25  
  26  Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting
  27  system, <http://omega.enstb.org/>. Omega is an extension of TeX.
  28  Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities.
  29  In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide,
  30  instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX.
  31  Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses
  32  programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform
  33  contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode
  34  standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make
  35  it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages,
  36  like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but
  37  will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as
  38  native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family)
  39  and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript
  40  format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. 
  41  Omega fonts are available subject to GPL
  42  
  43      Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)
  44      IPA Extensions                (U+0250-U+02AF)
  45      Greek                    (U+0370-U+03FF)
  46      Armenian                (U+0530-U+058F)
  47      Hebrew                    (U+0590-U+05FF)
  48      Arabic                    (U+0600-U+06FF)
  49      Currency Symbols            (U+20A0-U+20CF)
  50      Arabic Presentation Forms-A		(U+FB50-U+FDFF)
  51      Arabic Presentation Forms-B		(U+FE70-U+FEFF)
  52  
  53  Current info: <http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=omega>
  54  
  55  * Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru>
  56  
  57  Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to
  58  the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts,
  59  <ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/>.  The fonts are available under GPL.
  60  (The Cyrillic range was since replaced by another font.)
  61  
  62      Latin Extended-A                        (U+0100-U+017F)
  63  
  64  
  65  * Wadalab Kanji Comittee
  66  
  67  Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together a
  68  series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms:
  69  Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru.
  70  The font files are written in custom file format, while tools for conversion
  71  into Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji
  72  Comittee was later dismissed. The resulting files were once found on the FTP
  73  server of the Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics,
  74  Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo.  Some of these are available at
  75  <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/wadalab>
  76  
  77      Hiragana                (U+3040-U+309F)
  78      Katakana                (U+30A0-U+30FF)
  79  
  80  
  81  * Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu>
  82  
  83  Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols
  84  designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the
  85  documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The
  86  Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts
  87  for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < ,
  88  etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX
  89  fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times
  90  fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of
  91  that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts."
  92  TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license (GPL). 
  93  <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts/>.
  94  
  95      Arrows                    (U+2190-U+21FF)
  96      Mathematical Symbols            (U+2200-U+22FF)
  97  
  98  
  99  * Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org>
 100  
 101  Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, once available as
 102  as a tarball named greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz.
 103  The glyphs from this source have been used to compose Greek glyphs in
 104  FreeSans and FreeMono.
 105  
 106  Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for
 107  educational or commercial purposes.  All derived works should include
 108  this paragraph.  If you want to change something please let me have
 109  your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next
 110  version. You can also send comments etc to the above address."
 111  
 112      Greek                    (U+0370-U+03FF)
 113  
 114  
 115  * Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich
 116  
 117  In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of
 118  glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and
 119  slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU
 120  intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at
 121  <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/>.
 122  
 123      Thai                    (U+0E00-U+0E7F)
 124  
 125  * Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>
 126  
 127  Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs
 128  (without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under
 129  the XFree86 license at <http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/>.
 130  
 131  Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>.  All Rights Reserved.
 132  
 133  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 134  a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
 135  "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
 136  without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
 137  distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
 138  permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
 139  the following conditions:
 140  
 141  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
 142  included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 143  
 144  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
 145  EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
 146  MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
 147  IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 148  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
 149  ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
 150  OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 151  
 152  Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be
 153  used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
 154  dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
 155  S.R.Haque.
 156  
 157      Bengali                    (U+0980-U+09FF)
 158  
 159  
 160  * Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com>
 161  
 162  Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually
 163  compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on
 164  <http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On
 165  2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for
 166  non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license."
 167  
 168  Armenian                (U+0530-U+058F)
 169  
 170  
 171  * Mohamed Ishan <>
 172  
 173  Mohamed Ishan started the Thaana Unicode Project and among other things
 174  created a couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license.
 175  
 176      Thaana                    (U+0780-U+07BF)
 177  
 178  
 179  * Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com> (*)
 180  
 181  Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he
 182  states on his web page <http://sushantdash.tripod.com/>:
 183  "Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No
 184  copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel
 185  free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for
 186  people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters
 187  home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya
 188  fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)."
 189  
 190      Oriya                    (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
 191  
 192  
 193  * Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com>
 194  
 195  Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha <http://www.bharatbhasha.net/> -
 196  an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes
 197  etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and
 198  Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages
 199  Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to
 200  users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian
 201  languages."
 202  
 203      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 204      Bengali                    (U+0980-U+09FF)
 205      Gurmukhi                (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
 206      Gujarati                (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
 207  
 208  
 209  * Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com>
 210  
 211  Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type
 212  1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>. 
 213  Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs.
 214  Available under the GNU General Public License.
 215  
 216      Telugu                    (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
 217  
 218  
 219  * Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey
 220    <apandey AT u.washington.edu>
 221  
 222  In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The Netherlands,
 223  released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available under the terms of
 224  GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington University, Seattle, USA,
 225  took over the maintenance of font.  Zdeněk Wagner has provided a huge amount
 226  of expert advice regarding the implementation of the font in FreeSerif.
 227  Fonts can be found on CTAN,
 228  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>.
 229  
 230      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 231  
 232  
 233  * Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com>
 234  
 235  In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font,
 236  available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license
 237  says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are
 238  for non-profit use only." 
 239  
 240      Gurmukhi                (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
 241  
 242  
 243  * Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl>
 244  
 245  Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a
 246  set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as
 247  uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and
 248  modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to
 249  release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this
 250  notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN,
 251  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and
 252  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>.
 253  
 254      Oriya                    (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
 255      Malayalam                (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
 256  
 257  
 258  * Thomas Ridgeway <> (*)
 259  
 260  Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center,
 261  Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil
 262  metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over
 263  the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN,
 264  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/tamil/wntamil/>.
 265  
 266      Tamil                    (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
 267  
 268  
 269  * Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
 270    Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Olaf
 271    Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen Metzinger <?>
 272  
 273  Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations
 274  of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic
 275  metafonts, found on
 276  <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also
 277  maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project,
 278  <http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>,
 279  and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The current
 280  version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I
 281  converted the fonts to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace-A
 282  program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
 283  redundant control points with PfaEdit.
 284  
 285      Ethiopic                (U+1200-U+137F)
 286  
 287  
 288  * Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net>
 289  
 290  In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing
 291  Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of
 292  Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with
 293  URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono
 294  L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See
 295  also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>.
 296  
 297      Hebrew                    (U+0590-U+05FF)
 298  
 299  
 300  * Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis AT panayotis.com>
 301  
 302  Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek
 303  Extended area.
 304  
 305      Greek Extended                (U+1F00-U+1FFF)
 306  
 307  
 308  * Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru>
 309  
 310  Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged
 311  with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform
 312  scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed
 313  a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed
 314  from the "Carlo Ator" font by Tim Erickson.
 315  Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing
 316  spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of
 317  subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers.
 318  
 319      Syriac                    (U+0700-U+074A)
 320      Box Drawing                (U+2500-U+257F)
 321      Braille                    (U+2800-U+28FF)
 322  
 323  * Tim Erickson
 324  
 325  Is the author of several Eurasian fonts, including "Carlo Ator".
 326  He has given his written permission for glyphs from this font to be
 327  included in FreeFont.
 328      Syriac                    (U+0700-U+074A)
 329  
 330  
 331  * M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com>
 332  
 333  M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti
 334  Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released
 335  a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati,
 336  Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi)
 337  under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts
 338  from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site
 339  (http://www.gnu.org.in/akruti-fonts/) or from the Akruti website.
 340  
 341  For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts,
 342  please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com.
 343  
 344      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 345      Bengali                    (U+0980-U+09FF)
 346      Gurmukhi                (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
 347      Gujarati                (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
 348      Oriya                    (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
 349      Tamil                    (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
 350      Telugu                    (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
 351      Kannada                    (U+0C80-U+0CFF)    
 352      Malayalam                (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
 353  
 354  
 355  * DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt
 356    <nlevitt AT columbia.edu>
 357  
 358  Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site
 359  <http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or,
 360  precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence
 Produced by DMS
 361  Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font
 362  comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode.
 363  
 364  These glyphs were later replaced by those from the LKLUG font
 365  <http://www.lug.lk/fonts/lklug>
 366  
 367  Finally the range was completely replaced by glyphs from the sinh TeX
 368  font, with much help and advice from Harshula Jayasuriya.
 369  
 370      Sinhala                    (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
 371         
 372  
 373  * Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com>
 374  
 375  Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic
 376  glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of
 377  the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X,
 378  <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>.
 379  
 380      Cyrillic                (U+0400-U+04FF)
 381  
 382  
 383  * Denis Jacquerye <moyogo AT gmail.com>
 384  
 385  Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the
 386  Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges.
 387  
 388      Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)
 389      IPA Extensions                (U+0250-U+02AF)
 390  
 391  
 392  * K.H. Hussain <hussain AT kfri.org> and R. Chitrajan
 393  
 394  `Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara Vedi,
 395  a team of socially committed information technology professionals and
 396  philologists, has applied developments in computer technology and desktop
 397  publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language from the disorder,
 398  fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered since the attempt to adapt
 399  the Malayalam script for using with a regular mechanical typewriter, which
 400  took place in 1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute
 401  has released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required
 402  to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the
 403  glyphs in the OpenType table.
 404  
 405  In 2008, the Malayalam ranges in FreeSerif were updated under the advise 
 406  and supervision of Hiran Venugopalan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing,
 407  to reflect the revised edition Rachana_04.
 408  
 409      Malayalam                (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
 410  
 411  
 412  * Solaiman Karim <solaiman AT ekushey.org>
 413  
 414      Bengali                    (U+0980-U+09FF)
 415  
 416  Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and
 417  released them under GNU GPL on <http://www.ekushey.org>.
 418  
 419  
 420  * Sonali Sonania <sonalisonania AT gmail.com> and Monika Shah
 421    <monikapatira AT gmail.com>
 422  
 423      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 424      Gujarati                (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
 425  
 426  Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101,Mahalakshmi
 427  Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore
 428  560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai,
 429  lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali
 430  Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released
 431  under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii
 432  Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC
 433  Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by
 434  TDIL, Govt. of India. Contact:monika_shah AT lycos.com,
 435  sonalisonania AT yahoo.com, jitendras AT vsnl.com, alka AT ncst.ernet.in.
 436  website: www.janabhaaratii.org.in.
 437  
 438  
 439  * Pravin Satpute <pravin.d.s AT gmail.com>, Bageshri Salvi
 440    <sbagrshri AT yahoo.co.in>, Rahul Bhalerao <b.rahul.pm AT
 441    gmail.com> and Sandeep Shedmake <sandeep.shedmake AT gmail.com>
 442  
 443      Devanagari                (U+0900-U+097F)
 444      Gujarati                (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
 445      Oriya                    (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
 446      Malayalam                (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
 447      Tamil                    (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
 448  
 449  In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two
 450  Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font
 451  belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak
 452  Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation
 453  of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti
 454  and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard. 
 455  The fonts are now hosted at Sarovar.org:
 456  http://sarovar.org/projects/samyak/
 457  
 458  
 459  * Kulbir Singh Thind
 460  
 461      Gurmukhi                (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
 462  
 463  Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts,
 464  AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU
 465  Generel Public License from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center,
 466  http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/.
 467  
 468  
 469  * Gia Shervashidze <giasher AT telenet.ge>
 470  
 471          Georgian                (U+10A0-U+10FF)
 472  
 473  Starting in mid-1990s, Gia Shervashidze designed many
 474  Unicode-compliant Georgian fonts: Times New Roman Georgian, Arial
 475  Georgian, Courier New Georgian. His work on Georgian localization can
 476  be reached at http://www.gia.ge/.
 477  
 478  
 479  * Primož Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 480  
 481  Primož Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin
 482  Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and
 483  created the following UCS blocks:
 484  
 485      Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)
 486      IPA Extensions                (U+0250-U+02AF)
 487      Arrows                    (U+2190-U+21FF)
 488      Box Drawing                (U+2500-U+257F)
 489      Block Elements                (U+2580-U+259F)
 490      Geometrical Shapes            (U+25A0-U+25FF)
 491  
 492  * Mark Williamson
 493  
 494  Made the MPH 2 Damase font, from which 
 495      Hanunóo                                 (U+1720-U+173F)
 496      Buginese                                (U+1A00-U+1A1F)
 497      Tai Le                                  (U+1950-U+197F)
 498      Ugaritic                                (U+10380-U+1039F)
 499      Old Persian                             (U+103A0-U+103DF)
 500  
 501  * Jacob Poon
 502  
 503  Submitted a very thorough survey of glyph problems and other suggestions.
 504  
 505  * Alexey Kryukov
 506  
 507  Made the TemporaLCGUni fonts, based on the URW++ fonts, from which at one 
 508  point FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek, was drawn.  He also provided
 509  valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting.
 510  
 511      Cyrillic                (U+0400-U+04FF)
 512  
 513  * George Douros
 514  
 515  The creator of several fonts focusing on ancient scripts and symbols.
 516  Many of the glyphs are created by making outlines from scanned images
 517  of ancient sources.
 518  
 519      Aegean:   Phoenecian
 520      Analecta: Gothic                        (U+10330-U+1034F)
 521      Musical:  Byzantine & Western                  
 522      Unicode:  many Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical, OCR,
 523                supplemental Symbols, and Mathematical Alphanumeric symbols,
 524            Mah Jong, and the outline of the Domino.
 525  
 526  * Daniel Johnson
 527  
 528  Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with
 529  the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to
 530  fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont.  Then he made Unified Canadian
 531  Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono!  And never to be
 532  outdone by himself, then did UCAS Extended and Osmanya....  What next?
 533  
 534      Armenian (serif)                        (U+0530-U+058F)
 535      Cherokee                                (U+13A0-U+13FF)
 536      Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics   (U+1400-U+167F)
 537      UCAS Extended                           (U+18B0-U+18F5)
 538      Kayah Li                                (U+A900-U+A92F)
 539      Tifinagh                                (U+2D30-U+2D7F)
 540      Vai                                     (U+A500-U+A62B)
 541      Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters)     (U+A720-U+A7FF)
 542      Osmanya                                 (U+10480-U+104a7)
 543  
 544  * Yannis Haralambous and Wellcome Institute
 545  
 546  In 1994, The Wellcome Library
 547    The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
 548    183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England.
 549  commissioned Mr. Haralambous to produce a Sinhalese font for them.
 550  
 551  We have received 03/09 official notice from Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy
 552  for the Wellcome Library, that Yannis' font could be included in GNU
 553  FreeFont under its GNU license.
 554  
 555  Thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, for providing us with feedback and contacts
 556  to repsonsible people at the Trust.
 557  
 558      Sinhala                    (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
 559  
 560  * The Sinhala font project http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/
 561  
 562  The Sinhala font project has taken the glyphs from Yannis Haralambous'
 563  Sinhala font, to produce a Unicode TrueType font, LKLUG.  These glyphs
 564  were for a while included in FreeFont.
 565  
 566      Sinhala                    (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
 567  
 568  * Steve White <stevan.white AT googlemail.com>
 569  
 570  Filled in a lot of missing characters, got some font features working,
 571  left fingerprints almost everywhere, and is responsible for these blocks:
 572  
 573      Runic                                   (U+16A0-U+16F0)
 574      Glagolitic                              (U+2C00-U+2C5F)
 575      Coptic                                  (U+2C80-U+2CFF)
 576      Old Italic                              (U+10300-U+1032F)
 577  (The design of Runic is based roughly on one originally submitted by 
 578  Vyacheslav Dikonov)
 579  
 580  
 581  * Pavel Skrylev is responsible for
 582      Cyrillic Extended-A                     (U+2DEO-U+2DFF)
 583    as well as many of the additions to
 584      Cyrillic Extended-B                     (U+A640-U+A65F)
 585  
 586  
 587  * Masoud Pourmoosa corrected several letters in Arabic for Persian:
 588      Arabic                    (U+0600-U+06FF)
 589  
 590  Notes:
 591  
 592  *: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has
 593     not yet replied and agreed on their work being used in part of
 594     this glyph collection.
 595  
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