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