README file for -misc-fixed-iso10646-1 outline font

This file is encoded in ISO 8859-1.


0. Introduction

This project is aimed at producing a free software outline version of the 
classic bitmapped misc-fixed terminal fonts. The main purpose is to be able 
to print all characters displayed on screen using one single font.

1. Downloading

The latest version of the font can be downloaded from the page

  http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e4jordan/font/fixed.html


2. Installation

For detailed instructions on how to make the font available to different 
programmes see the file INSTALL.

3. Licensing

The font and font sources are covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License,
see the file COPYING.lIB. The programmes used to build the font file from the
source files and the auxilliary programmes are licensed under the GNU General
Public License, see the file COPYING.

4. Coverage

The font is intended to cover the same subset of Unicode as the bitmapped
screen fonts by Markus G. Kuhn, approximately 3300 glyphs. So far 300 glyphs
have been implemented (ISO Latin1, plain greek, and plain cyrillic).
The designed glyphs correspond to the following Unicode codepoints: 

 * U+0020 - U+007E, U+00A0 - U+00FF 
 * U+0391 - U+03A1, U+03A3 - U+03A9, U+03B1 - U+03C9 
 * U+0401, U+0410 - U+044F, U+0451 
 * U+20AC 

The planned order of adding new glyphs is:

 - mathematical operators and symbols
 - precomposed charcters with diacritics for LGC
 - other scripts
 - other symbols

5. Bug reports

Send comments and bug reports to e4jordan@etek.chalmers.se or by paper mail:

  Ulf Jordan
  Julianas grd 2
  SE-414 83 Gteborg
  Sweden

6. Contributing

You can contribute both by using the font and looking for ugly or missing 
glyphs, erroneous behaviour etc and send in bug reports regarding theese.

You can also contribute by designing glyphs, preferrably in the same format
as the rest of the sources (you will probably need to download the complete
sources misc-fixed-x.y.tar.gz, where x.y denotes the latest version number).
To be accepted for inclusion in the font your glyphs must be under LGPL as the
rest of the font, be original work by you (i.e. you must be the copyright 
holder). See also the file DEVELOPMENT.

7. Playing around with the font

If you just want to check out the glyphs in the font without installing it
in your system you can use ghostscript (gs) interactively:

Start ghostscript in the distribution directory:

	bash$ gs

Load the font:

	GS>(Misc-Fixed.pfa) run
	GS>/Misc-Fixed findfont 200 scalefont setfont

Glyphs corresponding to characters in ISO 8859-1 can be printed directly, 
since this is the default Encoding of the font. Example using 7-bit notation
(should produce a b c aring adieresis odieresis):

	GS>0 0 moveto
	GS>(abc\345\344\366) show

Same example in 8-bit notation:

	GS>0 0 moveto
	GS>(abc) show

Other glyphs can be tested using the glyphshow operator:

	GS>0 200 moveto
	GS>/Alpha glyphshow /Beta glyphshow /Gamma glyphshow
	GS>/xi glyphshow /eta glyphshow /zeta glyphshow

Exit ghostscript with

	GS>quit

