[Pkg-fonts-bugs] ITP: ttf-sil-gentium-basic - extended Unicode Latin/Greek smart font

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : ttf-sil-gentium-basic
  Version         : 1.1
  Upstream Author : Victor Gaultney, Annie Olsen
* URL             : http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_basic
* License         : Open Font License
  Description     : extended Unicode Latin/Greek smart font


Description:

Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface
family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the
world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality
publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably
compact, and visually attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of
Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major international typeface
design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003).
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The Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic font families are based on the
original Gentium design, but with additional weights. The "Book" family
is slightly heavier. Both families come with a complete regular, bold,
italic and bold italic set of fonts.
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The supported character set, however, is much smaller than for the main
Gentium fonts. These "Basic" fonts support only the Basic Latin and
Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly
used extended Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks,
symbols and punctuation. A much more complete character set will be
supported in a future version of the complete Gentium fonts. These
"Basic" fonts are intended as a way to provide additional weights for
basic font users without waiting until the complete Gentium character
set is finished.
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Gentium Basic supports Bold, Bold Italic, the slightly-heavier Book
family, OpenType and Graphite smart code for diacritic placement, a few
useful OpenType and Graphite features, support for a few more recent
additions to Unicode and character assignments are updated to conform to
Unicode 5.1
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Author: Victor Gaultney, Annie Olsen - SIL International
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Homepage: http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_basic