The Gentium Plus PS fonts are Type 1 versions of the TrueType Gentium fonts released by SIL International. The conversion to Type 1 necessarily introduces changes in the implementation of the shapes and the metrics. No changes to the shapes or advance widths have been made by humans, but a few human-made changes are in the kerning tables for the regular and italic; see below. The Gentium Plus PS fonts incorporate the name "Gentium" by permission of SIL given to the TeX Users Group (TUG). These fonts are semi-officially released and maintained under the auspices of TUG. For internal development changes, see the file ChangeLog. Each of the SIL fonts also has its own FONTLOG.txt. Please consult these FONTLOGs in their separate font project (Gentium*) subfolders here for a full record of changes, and for more information on the individual font projects. The home page for the Gentium Plus PS fonts and TeX support package: http://tug.org/gentium 2 July 2013 (TeX development team, see below) Gentium Plus PS version 1.0 - First public release. Basic information ---------------- The Type 1 regular and italic are derived from Gentium Plus, while the Type 1 bold and bold italic are derived from Gentium Basic. There are no intentional changes in the bold and bold italic beyond those made by the automatic conversion to Type 1. These are the changes in the regular and italic; we hope they will be incorporated in the original fonts in due time. - Some extra kerning pairs were added between accents and capital Greek letters. - The advance width of dcaron and lcaron is much smaller than in the original fonts. This improves the typesetting of Czech and Slovak. - There are additional kerning pairs for accented Latin letters, the Czech/Slovak letters dcaron and lcaron, and for small caps. The original fonts have no such kerning pairs. Manual corrections are still needed in some cases, e.g., initial cap followed by small cap. - There was a positive kern between the letters D and V in the regular style of Gentium Plus. The derived font has a negative kern. The conversion process, including these changes, is implemented in the Python and FontForge scripts included in the packages, e.g., ff-gentium.pe. Acknowledgements ---------------- (Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description (D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.) The full acknowledgements for the individual fonts can be found in the FONTLOGs for each separate font project. N: Karl Berry E: karl@freefriends.org W: http://freefriends.org/~karl D: Documentation, licensing, distribution, SIL <-> TUG contact, etc. N: Pavel Farar E: pavel.farar@centrum.cz D: Cyrillic support, conversion and generation scripts, etc. N: Mojca Miklavec E: mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com D: ConTeXt support, conversion and generation scripts, etc. N: Clea F. Rees W: http://cardiff.ac.uk/encap/contactsandpeople/profiles/rees-clea.html D: Original LaTeX support, documentation, conversion. N: Thomas A. Schmitz E: thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de W: http://www.philologie.uni-bonn.de/personal/schmitz D: Initial version of TeX support files, AGR encoding, ConTeXt support