From Fedora Project Wiki

No edit summary
 
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)
Line 15: Line 15:


== Description ==
== Description ==
Aegean covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode
Standard 5.2: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation
and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers,
Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old
Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, and
Archaic Greek Musical Notation.


Aegean covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard 5.1: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, Archaic Greek Musical Notation.  
Aegean also covers the following scripts and symbols not yet supported by
 
Unicode: Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Linear A, the Arkalochori Axe,
Scripts  and  symbols  as  yet  unsupported  by  Unicode,  are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15. Character and glyph repertoire in such cases follows major academic references as well as existing proposals.  These  scripts  and  symbols  are:  Linear  A,  Cretan  Hieroglyphs,  Cypro‐Minoan,  Ancient  Greek Alphabets (Φοινικικά, Αρχαϊκά 8ου αιώνα, αριστερόστροφα αρχαϊκά 7ου αιώνα, δεξιόστροφα αρχαϊκά 7ου αιώνα,  Θήρα  –  Κρήτη,  Ἀττική,  Μίλητος,  Ἰωνία,  Κόρινθος,  Ἄργος,  Βοιωτία  –  Χαλκίδα,  Λακωνία, Ἀρκαδία,  Εὔβοια,  Νεότερα),  Phrygian,  Old  Italic  Alphabets  (Cumaean,  Archaic  Etruscan,  Neo  Etruscan, Ancient  Latin,  Lugano,  Faliscan,  Marsiliana,  Messapic,  Middle  Adriatic  –  South  Picene,  North  Picene, Oscan, Umbrian), the Arkalochori Axe and Anatolian Hieroglyphs. There are, finally, many variant and extra glyphs in the Private Use Areas.
Ancient Greek and Old Italic variant alphabets. These are allocated in the
 
Supplementary Private Use Plane 15.
It was created by George Douros


It was created by George Douros.
<!--
<!--
◆ Requester: replace the preceding paragraph with a package description proposal:
◆ Requester: replace the preceding paragraph with a package description proposal:
Line 46: Line 52:
| Free to use, modify and distribute
| Free to use, modify and distribute
| [[rhbug:529323|529323]]
| [[rhbug:529323|529323]]
|
| [[koji:gdouros-aegean-fonts|gdouros-aegean-fonts]]
|
| [[pkgdb:gdouros-aegean-fonts|gdouros-aegean-fonts]]
|}
|}


Line 65: Line 71:
== Caveats ==
== Caveats ==


# It'd be mighty nice to convince the author to add his licensing info in the zip (as a detached txt file, in the pdf, in the font metadata)
# It'd be mighty nice to convince the author to add his licensing info in the zip (as a detached txt file)
# PDF is nice doc but needs to be compressed or even split in a -doc subpackage


<!--
<!--
Line 82: Line 87:




{{:Fonts_SIG_signature}} [[Category:In-progress fonts]] [[Category:Technical fonts]]
{{:Fonts_SIG_signature}} [[Category:Packaged fonts]] [[Category:Technical fonts]]


<!--
<!--

Latest revision as of 17:23, 31 October 2009

A page of the Fonts Special Interest Group


A font for ancient scripts in the greater Aegean vicinity


Description

Aegean covers the following scripts and symbols supported by The Unicode Standard 5.2: Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, and Archaic Greek Musical Notation.

Aegean also covers the following scripts and symbols not yet supported by Unicode: Cretan Hieroglyphs, Cypro-Minoan, Linear A, the Arkalochori Axe, Ancient Greek and Old Italic variant alphabets. These are allocated in the Supplementary Private Use Plane 15.

It was created by George Douros.

Characteristics

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts OFL Free to use, modify and distribute 529323 gdouros-aegean-fonts gdouros-aegean-fonts


Caveats

  1. It'd be mighty nice to convince the author to add his licensing info in the zip (as a detached txt file)


Additional information

Needed to complete our Unicode coverage. Plus, the fonts are very nice.



Fonts in Fedora
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.