Fonts/TibetanMachineWeb/tibwnReadMe.txt

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* TIBETAN MACHINE WEB TRUE TYPE FONT *
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* Made available publically through the cooperation of *
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* The Tibetan Computer Company (http://www.tibet.dk/tcc/) *
* The Trace Foundation (http:/trace.org/) *
* The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library (http://thdl.org/) *
* Fonts and Documentation created by Tony Duff *
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* Released October 1, 2001. *
* Updated December 11, 2001. *
* Updated again September 30, 2002. *
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LICENSE:
The programs and typeface are free software; you can redistribute them
and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
'MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE'. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
USA.
See 'GPL.txt'.
DESCRIPTION: This folder contains the files you will need to install
and use the Tibetan Machine Web True Type font. The font itself
consists of ten (10) files that need to be installed in the system's
font folder.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 95 and higher, Mac OS, Linux.
INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS XP: To install the files, open the Control
Panel, select Appearance and Themes, and select Fonts from the "See
Also" section at left. Select File -> Install New Font. Navigate to
the directory where you extracted the .ttf files. Select all 10
files. Be sure "Copy fonts to Fonts folder" is checked, and press OK.
INSTALLATION FOR OTHER SYSTEMS: To install the files copy them from
the folder to which they were extracted into the system's font folder.
In Windows this generally under Windows/Fonts; on the Mac this is
found in System/Fonts, both paths starting from the hard-drive's root
directory. The fonts are True Type fonts.
FILE NAMES: There are twelve (12) files contained in this folder:
FONT FILES (10)
timwn.ttf
timwn1.ttf
timwn2.ttf
timwn3.ttf
timwn4.ttf
timwn5.ttf
timwn6.ttf
timwn7.ttf
timwn8.ttf
timwn9.ttf
DOCUMENTATION FILES (2)
GPL.txt - The license governing your use of this font
tibwnReadMe.txt - This ReadMe file
In addition, surf to http://thdl.org/ and look for the following
document:
Tibetan Machine Web Documentation -
This is a PDF file that contains the original documentation
for the font, including descriptions of the glyphs and their
ASCII codes, as well as information on which vowel glyphs are
used with each consonant glyph or stack glyph. The font
encodings are included with the manual for Tibetan! 5.1, a
plug-in for Microsoft Word written by Tony Duff of the Tibetan
Computer Company and also available for free download from the
Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library's Digital Media Tools
site at http://thdl.org/.
TROUBLESHOOTING: If you have difficulty installing or using the font,
visit
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=502516&group_id=61934&func=browse
and submit a support request, or e-mail
thdltools-users@lists.sourceforge.net, a public mailing list for users
of THDL tools.