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Baekmuk Fonts (Korean fonts for the X Window System, bitmap version).

NOTE: Automatically created during Factory devel project migration by admin.

Bugowner

Calibre is an ebook library manager. It can view, convert and catalog
ebooks in most of the major ebook formats. It can also talk to a few
ebook reader devices. It can go out to the internet and fetch
metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them
into ebooks for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on
Linux, Windows and OS X.

The Cantarell font family is a contemporary Humanist sans serif designed
for on-screen reading.

The Caslon TrueType font is a partial implementation of Unicode. I does
not contain

* CJK characters (ideographs)

* Asian & Indian alphabets and sylabaries

* Arabic

but it contains enough for most European languages including the
euro-sign.

Bugowner

Chrpath allows you to modify the dynamic library load path (rpath) of
compiled programs. Currently, only removing and modifying the rpath is
supported. It cannot extend or add an rpath.

Computer Modern Unicode fonts were converted from metafont sources
using [1] textrace and [2] pfaedit (030404). Their main purpose is to
create free good quality fonts for use in X Window System applications
supporting many languages. Currently the fonts contain glyphs from
Latin1 (Metafont ec, tc), Cyrillic (la, rx) and Greek (cbgreek when
available) code sets.

CPMono v07 is an industrial / high-tech monospace font.

Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a Unicode font for medievalists.

Junicode currently contains 3096 characters in the regular style (the italic,
bold and bold italic styles are less complete). These Unicode ranges are
either complete in the regular style or they contain substantial numbers of
glyphs (especially those of interest to medievalists).

The DejaVu fonts are a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts.
Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining
the original look and feel through the process of collaborative
development.

The efont-serif is a really free and open scalable electronic font.

The Omega Serif and URW Nimbus are also distributable. But their letter
forms are quite similar to Adobe Times. The efont-serif does not copy
the outlines or the letter forms of any copyrighted typefaces.

Unicode fonts developed by /efont/ openlab. This font package includes
12,14, 16, and 24 pixel ISO-10646 fonts.

The Fifth Leg font is the font used for openSUSE branded material.

More than 300 free fonts in True Type format. Most of them are in the
art style and unusable as desktop fonts, but are great for any poster
or illustration.

The fonts are copyrighted under the GPL or a Freeware license, but
donations are requested by the artists. Look in
/usr/share/doc/packages/free-ttf-fonts/ for further information.

Aegean covers the following scripts and symbols supported by Unicode: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, and Archaic Greek Musical Notation. Aegean allocates in Plane 15 of the UCS the following scripts and symbols, as yet unsupported by Unicode: Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Linear A, the Arkalochori Axe, signs on Troy vessels and the Dispilio tablet. In this version Linear A and B have been expanded with variant glyphs. The Tsepis stele variant of the Cypriot Syllabary has been added as its Open Type Stylistic Set VI.

Aegyptus allocates Egyptian Hieroglyphs, in Plane 15 of the UCS. The main sources of glyphs are «Hieroglyphica», PIREI, 2000 and the work of Alan Gardiner. The font also covers Basic Latin, Egyptian Transliteration characters, the Hieratic alphabet, Coptic, Meroitic, the Gardiner set supported by Unicode, et al. The Gardiner set (redesigned with a thicker line) is also available in the small font Gardiner.

Akkadian covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Cuneiform, Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation.

A text typeface using the Greek letters designed by Alexander Wilson (1714-1786), a Scottish doctor, astronomer, and typefounder. The type was especially designed for an edition of Homer’s epics, published in 1756-8 by Andrew and Robert Foulis, printers to the University of Glasgow. A modern revival, Wilson Greek, has been designed by Matthew Carter in 1995. Peter S. Baker is also using Wilson’s Greek type in his Junicode font for medieval scholars (2007). Latin and Cyrillic are based on a Garamond typeface. The font covers the Windows Glyph List, Greek Extended, IPA Extensions, Ancient Greek Numbers, Byzantine and Ancient Greek Musical Notation, various typographic extras and several Open Type features (Case-Sensitive Forms, Small Capitals, Subscript, Superscript, Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures).

Lowercase upright Greek were designed in 1805 by Firmin Didot (1764 – 1836) and cut by Walfard and Vibert. The typeface, together with a complete printing house, was donated in 1821 to the new Greek state by Didot’s son, Ambroise Firmin Didot (1790 – 1876). Lowercase italic Greek were designed in 1802 by Richard Porson (1757 – 1808) and cut by Richard Austin. They were first used by Cambridge University Press in 1810. Capitals, Latin and Cyrillic, as well as the complete bold weights, have been designed in an attempt to create a well-balanced font. The font covers the Windows Glyph List, Greek Extended, various typographic extras and some Open Type features (Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures); it is available in regular, italic, bold and bold italic.

Grecs du roi was designed by Claude Garamond (1480 – 1561) between 1541 and 1544, commissioned by king Francis I of France, for the exclusive use by the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris. Greek in Akaktoria is based on a modern version of Grecs du roi prepared by Mindaugas Strockis in 2001. Lowercase Latin stems from the titles in the 1623 First Folio Edition of Shakespeare. Scott Mann & Peter Guither prepared a modern version for The Illinois Shakespeare Festival in 1995. Cyrillic has been designed to match the above Greek and Latin. The font covers the Windows Glyph List, Greek Extended, various typographic extras and some Open Type features (Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures, Swash Capitals).

Analecta is an ecclesiastic scripts font, covering Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Coptic, typographica varia, Specials, Gothic and Deseret.

Anatolian is a work-font, encoding Anatolian Hieroglyphs in F200 - F4FF of the Private Use Area of the BMP. There are no plans to improve or expand it.

Fonts based on the ‘New Hellenic’ font by Victor Julius Scholderer.

Robert Granjon (1513 – 1589) produced his Parangonne Greque typeface (Garmond size) at the instigation of Plantin as a counterpart to Garamond’s Grec du roi, in Antwerp Holland, between 1560 - 1565. A version of the font was used (a century later!) for the 1692 edition of Diogenes Laertius by Aegidius Menagius (Gilles Ménage of Angers, 1613 – 92), published by Henric Wetstenium in Amsterdam. A second variant, at Kolonel size, was cut by Nikolaas Kis for the Greek-Dutch edition of the New Testament in 1698, again by Henric Wetstenium. A digital revival, was prepared by Ralph P. Hancock, in his Vusillus font. Latin and Cyrillic are based on a Goudy typeface. The font covers the Windows Glyph List, Greek Extended, various typographic extras and some Open Type features (Numerators, Denominators, Fractions, Old Style Figures, Historical Forms, Stylistic Alternates, Ligatures).

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