{"id":595,"date":"2008-04-03T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/gentium\/?p=595"},"modified":"2017-10-03T21:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:16:03","slug":"gentium-basic-v1-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/gentium\/gentium-basic-v1-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentium Basic v1.100"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Basic Font Information<\/h2>\n<p>Gentium (&#8220;belonging to the nations&#8221; in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. Gentium has won a &#8220;Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design&#8221; in two major international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001), TDC2003 (2003).<\/p>\n<p>The Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic font famililes are based on the original design, but with additional weights. The &#8220;Book&#8221; family is slightly heavier. Both families come with a complete regular, bold, italic and bold italic set of fonts.<\/p>\n<p>The supported character set, however, is much smaller than for the main Gentium fonts. These &#8220;Basic&#8221; fonts support only the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly used extended Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks, symbols and punctuation. For a complete list of supported characters see the list at the end of this document.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, these fonts do not support:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full extended Latin IPA<\/li>\n<li>Complete support for Central European languages<\/li>\n<li>Greek<\/li>\n<li>Cyrillic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A much more complete character set will be supported in a future version of the complete Gentium fonts. These &#8220;Basic&#8221; fonts are intended as a way to provide additional weights for basic font users without waiting until the complete Gentium character set is finished. So please don&#8217;t request additional glyphs or characters to be supported in the Basic fonts &#8211; such support will become available in the main Gentium family in the future.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some other limitations of the Basic fonts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are not completely metric-compatible with the full Gentium family<br \/>\n(some glyphs may have different widths, although changes have been minimal)<\/li>\n<li>There is no kerning<\/li>\n<li>There are no &#8220;Alt&#8221; versions, or ones with low-profile diacritics<\/li>\n<li>The default stacking style for some diacritic combinations does not match Vietnamese-style conventions (although this is available through a OpenType\/Graphite feature)<\/li>\n<li>No support for TypeTuner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are, however, some wonderful new features that are still missing from the main Gentium family:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bold!<\/li>\n<li>Bold Italic!<\/li>\n<li>The slightly-heavier Book family!<\/li>\n<li>OpenType and Graphite smart code for diacritic placement!<\/li>\n<li>A few useful OpenType and Graphite features<\/li>\n<li>Support for a few more recent additions to Unicode and the SIL PUA (http:\/\/scripts.sil.org\/UnicodePUA)<\/li>\n<li>Character assignments are updated to conform to Unicode 5.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In particular, the Basic fonts support a subset of the smart font features that the <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/\">Doulos SIL<\/a> font supports. Those features are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capital Eng alternates<\/li>\n<li>Literacy alternates<\/li>\n<li>Capital Y-hook alternate<\/li>\n<li>Capital N-left-hook alternate<\/li>\n<li>Modifier apostrophe alternate<\/li>\n<li>Modifier colon alternate<\/li>\n<li>Open o alternate<\/li>\n<li>Vietnamese-style diacritics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Known Problems<\/h2>\n<p>We know of the following problems. Please report any other problems you encounter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>logicalnot (U+00AC) appears distorted in Bold Italic and Book Italic.<\/li>\n<li>Opening the fonts with FontLab 5.0.x, then closing them, crashes FontLab. We are working to get this bug fixed in the next version of FontLab. A workaround is to open the font, save as a .vfb file, close (which still causes a crash). Then restart FontLab and open the .vfb file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Limitations<\/h2>\n<p>There are also some other limitations of the Basic fonts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They are not completely metric-compatible with the full Gentium family (some glyphs may have different widths, although changes have been minimal)<\/li>\n<li>There is no kerning<\/li>\n<li>There are no &#8220;Alt&#8221; versions, or ones with low-profile diacritics<\/li>\n<li>The default stacking style for some diacritic combinations does not match Vietnamese-style conventions (although this is available through a OpenType\/Graphite feature)<\/li>\n<li>No support for TypeTuner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download the newest release packages from the <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/gentium\/download\/\">Download Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download v1.100 of the release packages from the <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/gentium\/download\/previous-versions\/\">Previous Versions Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic Font Information Gentium (&#8220;belonging to the nations&#8221; in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. 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