meillo@0: LOFP - Libertine Open Fonts Project
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meillo@0: 1. OPEN FONTS PROJECT'S AIMS
meillo@0: We work on a serif and organic grotesque font-family for practical use in documents. 
meillo@0: Our project aims at creating a free alternative to the standard W*ndows Font (T*mes).
meillo@0: But neveretheless Libertine and Biolinum are not a clone of any common font! 
meillo@0: They have been developed from scratch and go different ways in typography 
meillo@0: than the Times or Arial. Just the useability and the dimensions shall be similar, 
meillo@0: Libertine should be even better for typical office use! If you want Times- and 
meillo@0: Arial-clones go elsewhere. If you just need reliable and good typography 
meillo@0: give our fonts a chance. If you want to know more about the design of 
meillo@0: Libertine and Biolinum, have a look at our website.
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meillo@0: 2. LICENSE AND OPENSOURCE
meillo@0: We publish our fonts under the terms of the GPL (see GPL.txt) and OFL (OFL.txt)
meillo@0: -> see also LICENCE.txt!
meillo@0: The OpenSource-tool Fontforge is used as font editor (see http://fontforge.sf.net).
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meillo@0: 3. FONT FORMATS: TTF, OTF, SVG, WOFF
meillo@0: The font files are available as TTF (TrueType), OTF (OpenType),
meillo@0: SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and WOFF (Web Open Font Format) fonts. 
meillo@0: The TTF-/WOFF-Family is called "Linux Libertine" and "Linux Biolinum"
meillo@0: and the OTF/SVG "LinuxLibertine O" and "Linux Biolinum O".
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meillo@0: So that both types can be installed and used parallely.
meillo@0: Most often TTF is the better supported format though OTF has advances in printing. 
meillo@0: Decide yourself what is better for your purpose. OpenType-features are equally 
meillo@0: available in both fonts. Note that OpenOffice doesn’t support OTFs, yet.
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meillo@0: 4. THE LINUX BIOLINUM FONT FACE
meillo@0: Please note: 
meillo@0: While you use Libertine-Fonts without any warranty anyway, 
meillo@0: take special care with this young font face.
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meillo@0: 5. HINTING
meillo@0: The TrueType-hinting is a complex technique and our editor FontForge doesn't support 
meillo@0: full possibilities (but it becomes alot better version by version) ...
meillo@0: Since version 2.7 also the normal TTFs are hinted. If you don't like this, send me a mail. 
meillo@0: You may also try the OpenTypes (which contain PS-Hintings which are quite 
meillo@0: good supported by FontForge).
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meillo@0: 6. DOWNLOAD AND CONTACT
meillo@0: We publish our fonts at http://www.linuxlibertine.org/.
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meillo@0: 7. THE UNDERLINED VARIANT
meillo@0: Please note: 
meillo@0: The underlined variant is recently not being maintained because its concept 
meillo@0: doesn’t seem to be sofware-technically reliable and because of lack of interest.
meillo@0: The advantage of this font was that g, commas, cedillas... were not overprinted 
meillo@0: by the line anymore. For technical reasons the space was not underlined but 
meillo@0: you could use the _ instead. In this font it had the width of the space and 
meillo@0: the line was at hight of the underline. The underlined variant used 
meillo@0: an older font outline.
meillo@0: 
meillo@0: Philipp Poll -- gillian at linuxlibertine.org
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