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     1.4 +LOFP - Libertine Open Fonts Project
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     1.6 +1. OPEN FONTS PROJECT'S AIMS
     1.7 +We work on a serif and organic grotesque font-family for practical use in documents. 
     1.8 +Our project aims at creating a free alternative to the standard W*ndows Font (T*mes).
     1.9 +But neveretheless Libertine and Biolinum are not a clone of any common font! 
    1.10 +They have been developed from scratch and go different ways in typography 
    1.11 +than the Times or Arial. Just the useability and the dimensions shall be similar, 
    1.12 +Libertine should be even better for typical office use! If you want Times- and 
    1.13 +Arial-clones go elsewhere. If you just need reliable and good typography 
    1.14 +give our fonts a chance. If you want to know more about the design of 
    1.15 +Libertine and Biolinum, have a look at our website.
    1.16 +
    1.17 +2. LICENSE AND OPENSOURCE
    1.18 +We publish our fonts under the terms of the GPL (see GPL.txt) and OFL (OFL.txt)
    1.19 +-> see also LICENCE.txt!
    1.20 +The OpenSource-tool Fontforge is used as font editor (see http://fontforge.sf.net).
    1.21 +
    1.22 +3. FONT FORMATS: TTF, OTF, SVG, WOFF
    1.23 +The font files are available as TTF (TrueType), OTF (OpenType),
    1.24 +SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and WOFF (Web Open Font Format) fonts. 
    1.25 +The TTF-/WOFF-Family is called "Linux Libertine" and "Linux Biolinum"
    1.26 +and the OTF/SVG "LinuxLibertine O" and "Linux Biolinum O".
    1.27 +
    1.28 +So that both types can be installed and used parallely.
    1.29 +Most often TTF is the better supported format though OTF has advances in printing. 
    1.30 +Decide yourself what is better for your purpose. OpenType-features are equally 
    1.31 +available in both fonts. Note that OpenOffice doesn’t support OTFs, yet.
    1.32 +
    1.33 +4. THE LINUX BIOLINUM FONT FACE
    1.34 +Please note: 
    1.35 +While you use Libertine-Fonts without any warranty anyway, 
    1.36 +take special care with this young font face.
    1.37 +
    1.38 +5. HINTING
    1.39 +The TrueType-hinting is a complex technique and our editor FontForge doesn't support 
    1.40 +full possibilities (but it becomes alot better version by version) ...
    1.41 +Since version 2.7 also the normal TTFs are hinted. If you don't like this, send me a mail. 
    1.42 +You may also try the OpenTypes (which contain PS-Hintings which are quite 
    1.43 +good supported by FontForge).
    1.44 +
    1.45 +6. DOWNLOAD AND CONTACT
    1.46 +We publish our fonts at http://www.linuxlibertine.org/.
    1.47 +
    1.48 +7. THE UNDERLINED VARIANT
    1.49 +Please note: 
    1.50 +The underlined variant is recently not being maintained because its concept 
    1.51 +doesn’t seem to be sofware-technically reliable and because of lack of interest.
    1.52 +The advantage of this font was that g, commas, cedillas... were not overprinted 
    1.53 +by the line anymore. For technical reasons the space was not underlined but 
    1.54 +you could use the _ instead. In this font it had the width of the space and 
    1.55 +the line was at hight of the underline. The underlined variant used 
    1.56 +an older font outline.
    1.57 +
    1.58 +Philipp Poll -- gillian at linuxlibertine.org
    1.59 +