FONTLOG Theano Classical Fonts ====================== This file provides detailed information on Theano Classical Fonts. This information should be distributed along with tTheano Classical Fonts and any derivative works. Basic Font Information ---------------------- Theano is a common name for some fonts I have designed from historic samples. Most of these fonts were initially intended as Greek-only faces, but finally I found it interesting to supplement them with stylistically compatible Latin letters, thus reproducing the general look of old classical text editions. For this reason Theano fonts currently have no additional weights or styles and don't provide extensive Unicode coverage: just a standard set of Latin and Greek characters (including the full polytonic set) and some additional characters I found interesting to design. Nevertheless I decided to make them publicly available in the hope they can be useful for other classicists or medievalists. The package is named after Theano, a famous Ancient Greek woman philosopher, who was first a student of Pythagoras, and supposedly became his wife. In 1211 or 1212 Michael Choniates, a highly educated Greek Metropolitan of Athens, wrote a large poem devoted to Theano. Thus Theano seemed a good example of a person joining the ancient and the medieval world. Another reason for which I selected her name is that it starts from theta, just like Thessalonica -- the name of my keyboard input and conversion utility for Ancient Greek. ChangeLog --------- 2011 April 30 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.0 * Implemented a basic set of Cyrillic letters (those in windows-1251 and those needed for Russian and Bulgarian pre-reform orthography). * Added editorial signs and New Testament critical signs. * I no longer use custom PUA mappings. I have preserved PUA codepoints for a few standard glyphs (including capital accents) previously mapped there by Adobe, as well as for additional accented Greek characters implemented for compatibility with Ralph Hancock's fonts. Everything else has been moved outside the encoding. * Implemented a full set of subscript/superscript digits and denominators. * New implementation for the 'frac' feature: it is now possible to build any arbitrary fractions rather than just those available in Unicode in the precomposed form. * SIL's Graphite rendering technologie is now supported. The features available are mostly the same as for OpenType, but there are some additions (in particular it is possible to render a Greek text with accents above capitals). The manual has also been changed to reflect the new functionality. * Added human-readable stylistic set names (US English only). * The fonts are now available also in the WOFF format to simplify embedding into web pages. 2008 November 23 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.0.1 * Wrong font names were specified in the `Preferred family' field. * If the same set of rules is shared by several features, then use just one lookup registered for more than one feature to store them. 2008 November 18 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.0 * First public release. 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.) N: Alexey Kryukov E: alexios@thessalonica.org.ru W: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru D: Original Designer of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs For more information please visit the Fonts page on Thessalonica's website: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html. Or send an email to .