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        X11fonts-iso8859-2      version 0.83    6-jan-1996
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Description
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This package contains a set of X11 bitmapped fonts.  The fonts have
ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2) character set, so they are suitable for use
with Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak,
and Slovene languages.

There are two groups of fonts in this package: (i) fixed-width fonts
of Fixed family and (ii) "Latin-2'ed" Adobe fonts (families Times,
Helvetica, Courier).  All fonts are in 75dpi screen resolution.

The fonts have been made by extending the ASCII-encoded bitmapped
public-domain fonts to the full ISO Latin 2 set.  This was done by using
various self-made tools (C-programmed filters, awk and shell scripts,
and Emacs macros) and, for the most part, by hand-editing the diacritic
marks.

The outlines of the original fonts of Times, Courier, an Helvetica
families are copyrighted by Adobe Systems, Inc.  The shape of the base
characters has not been changed but the diacritic marks specific for
ISO 8859-2 charset were worked out and new accented characters added.
In a few of cases of acctented letters, their bounding box had to be
stretched or the letter had to be slightly shifted within the box.


Fixed-width fonts
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Fixed-width fonts are intended for use in terminal emulators (like XTerm),
text editors, etc.  Fonts in following sizes are included:
5x7, 5x8, 6x9, 8x8, 8x10, 10x20, 14x26 (Medium weight),
6x13, 6x14, 7x13, 7x14, 8x12, 8x14, 8x16, 9x15, 9x17 (Medium & Bold weights).
The numbers stand for (pixel width)x(pixel height) of the character cell.


Adobe fonts
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Proportional-width fonts of Times family are given in the following
sizes/weights/shapes:

                10pt  12pt  14pt  16pt  18pt  24pt  32pt
medium roman     +     +     +     +     +     +
bold roman             +     +     +     +     +     +
medium italic          +     +     +     +     +
bold italic            +     +     +     +     +

Proportional-width fonts of Helvetica family has, so far, only two members:

                10pt  12pt  14pt  16pt  18pt  24pt  32pt
medium upright
bold upright                 +           +
medium oblique
bold oblique

Monospaced fonts Courier are given in the following sizes/weights/shapes:

                10pt  12pt  14pt  16pt  18pt  24pt  32pt
light upright          +     +
bold upright                 +
light oblique          +     +
bold oblique


Related packages
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There is also a package of X11 fonts made by Primoz Peterlin:
ftp://biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si/pub/fonts/iso_8859-2-0.2.tar.gz
Another package of bitmapped X11 fonts, set up by Jakub Jelinek, is in
ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/i18n/Latin2/X11fonts/BDF/

You can find comprehensive information about X11 Latin 2 fonts and
available packages in WWW page
http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si/linux/cee/iso8859-2.html
maintained by Primoz Peterlin.


Feedback
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The fonts are far from perfect and many characters still need improvement.
The bug reports and suggestions (by e-mail) are welcomed.


Copying
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This package can be freely distributed and used provided it is distributed
for free and used without profit.  If you want to use it commercially or
copy it for a fee, or if you want to incorporate the fonts into another
package which will not be in public domain, you should contact me first.


Address
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Libor Skarvada <libor@fi.muni.cz>
Masaryk University Brno
