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Version: 1.8
6 December 2000
This set of fonts provides a 12pt, 100dpi proportional font with many of
the glyphs needed for Unicode text. I call the typeface "ClearlyU" and
it was influenced by Donald Knuth's Computer Modern.
The fonts together contain 7564 glyphs at the moment.
Information about this font and samples, are located at:
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu.html
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Thanks to Otto Stolz <[email protected]> for finding spelling errors
in one of the Greek samples.
AUTHOR
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Mark Leisher <[email protected]>
CHANGES
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CHANGES FROM 1.7
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o Adjusted the shapes of U+01A2 and U+01A3 based on:
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/pdf/gha.pdf
o Added some more glyphs for Unicode 3.0.
o Some minor lightening of a few glyphs.
o Redrew the Hebrew glyphs to be more consistent with the other scripts.
o Removed a combination from the PUA font that is in Unicode 3.0.
o Made the digits in the Arabic glyphs heavier to reflect more common
practice. The Urdu digit glyphs in the alternate font updated as well.
o Modified the Arabic block glyphs to be smaller and less silly looking.
o Added Devanagari glyphs including those needed to actually present text.
o Adjusted the advance widths of the Cyrillic capital letters to make
presentation more consistent.
o Adjusted the width of the Lao vowels, I, II, Y, and YY.
o Renamed all the glyphs to "uniXXXX".
o Added a Macedonian/Serbian alternate for U+0431 to cu-alt12.
o Added the Romanian alternates using virgule instead of cedilla for
U+015E, U+015F, U+0162, and U+0163.
o Added the Persian alternate glyph for the decimal separator at U+066B to
the alternate font.
o Fixed up some of the Greek glyphs so the small iota follows the capital
letters.
o Improved the Greek drachma sign.
o Adjusted the Cyrillic block to match Unicode 3.0 and moved the extra
characters to the PUA font.
o Initial addition of some basic Hangul glyphs.
CHANGES FROM 1.6
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o Fixed some more spacing problems with Greek glyphs.
o Fixed some problems with two alternate Greek glyphs.
o Fixed a spacing problem with an Armenian glyph.
o Fixed advance width problems with the Klingon.
o Added an alternate "No." glyph at 0x2116.
o Changed the spacing on the basic Latin upper-case letters to make them
look better in natural text.
o Lowered the dot above the the lower case "i" and "j" letters to make them
blend in more with the surrounding letters.
o Added some Greek block glyphs.
o Replaced the small letter d-caron (U+010F) with the preferred typesetting
form and moved the caron form to the alternate page.
o Replaced the small letter l-caron (U+013E) with the preferred typesetting
form and moved the caron form to the alternate page.
o Added U+01F6 through U+01F9, U+021C and U+021D, U+0222 through U+0225,
U+02A9 through U+02AD, U+02EA through U+02EE, U+0346 through U+034E,
U+0362, U+2139 and U+213A, U+2183, U+21EB through U+21F3, U+2425 and
U+2426, U+25F0 through U+25F7,
for Unicode 3.0 support.
o Lightened the weight of the "w" shape a little.
o Added a couple glyphs to the Private Use Area font for Navajo (U+E12E and
U+E12F).
o Added glyphs at U+FFFE for use as an X11 DEFAULT_CHAR entry.
o Added the _XFREE86_GLYPH_RANGES properties.
o Updated the copyright notice year.
CHANGES FROM 1.5
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o Fixed up the Coptic SMALL LETTER FEI shape.
o Changed the default shape of the Greek KOPPA to the O shape and added a
lower case KOPPA in the unassigned slot after the KOPPA.
o Added some glyphs to the Private Use Area font: dotless lower j, upper
and lower g with tilde, upper j with caron, final Hebrew kaf with
qamats, upper and lower Xucuri letter he, alternate forms of the Greek
koppa.
o Some minor improvements made to a few Xucuri glyphs.
o Spacing adjustments to Armenian, Georgian, Lao, and Thai.
o Added some more Cyrillic and Latin glyphs.
o Renamed all the glyphs to 4-digit hexadecimal codes of the form 0xUUUU.
o Added alternate Greek glyphs that use the curved PERISPOMENI instead of
the one that looks like a tilde.
CHANGES FROM 1.4
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o Fixed the tone marks in the Greek block.
o Adjusted the spacing on the lower case Greek letters.
o Added the missing micro sign at U+00B5.
o Adjusted spacing on more Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic letters.
o Added a different Franc symbol to the alternate font.
o Added the Macedonian I with grave, U+040D, U+045D.
o Added Cyrillic letter IE with grave at U+0400, U+0450.
o Added the Armenian hyphen at U+058A.
o Fixed spacings on glyphs shaped like the capital C and R, and lightened
the capital K a bit.
o Lightened the "small k shape" found in Cyrillic and Greek.
o Adjusted some spacing problems with Greek alphas.
o Fixed Cyrillic glyphs UPRIGHT U and UPRIGHT U WITH BAR.
o Adjusted the Cyrillic letters U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE.
CHANGES FROM 1.3
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o Lightened the lower case "k" and "t" shapes to be more consistent with
the weight of the other glyphs.
o Adjusted the spacing of the letter "x" yet again.
o Adjusted spacing of the letter "y".
o Changed the Greek capital "Y" shape to something more modern, in the
diatonic block as well.
o Adjusted many spacings.
o Adjusted spacing on Georgian Xutsuri lower case alternate glyphs.
o Added consistent CAP_HEIGHT and X_HEIGHT to all fonts.
CHANGES
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20 October 1998 - Cleaned up some more spacing problems and added the floor
and ceiling glyphs.
15 October 1998 - Cleaned up some spacing problems with digits.
Added Klingon to the PUA font.
02 October 1998 - Changed U+0123 to the preferred Latvian form.
Cleaned up some of the Arabic digits.
Made the alternate Georgian font into a general alternate
glyph font. Added some alternate Arabic glyphs for Urdu
digits and letters. Added the g-cedilla as an alternate
glyph.
03 September 1998 - Fixed some math character metrics.
09 September 1998 - Finished the Arabic blocks.
12 July 1998 - Added proposed Cyrillic glyphs for Kildin S�mi.
12 July 1998 - Borrowed the Ethiopic glyphs from ethiomx12-uni.bdf.
License notes
A 12pt/100dpi proportional-width font covering multiple Unicode scripts (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Devanagari, and others), influenced by Donald Knuth's Computer Modern. The README embeds the full license text (Copyright 2000 Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University, MIT/X11-style wording). cu12 is the main font; cu-alt12, cu-arabic12, cu-lig12, and cu-pua12 are alternate-glyph, Arabic, ligature, and PUA extension files split from the same design rather than separate fonts. The directory also includes an ORIGIN file noting that the local files were actually extracted from the XFree86 4.0.2 source package.
License details are for reference only; the upstream original text prevails.