unifont 1:14.0.01-1 source package in Ubuntu

 This contains four fonts: "Unifont", "Unifont Upper", "Unifont CSUR",
 and "Unifont Sample".
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 unifont.ttf is a bitmap font converted into a scalable TrueType
 outline font, Unifont. Each pixel in the original bitmap font
 is represented as an outlined square. The font provides a glyph
 for each visible code point (character) in the Unicode Basic
 Multilingual Plane (BMP, or Plane 0). The BMP contains most of
 the world's modern writing scripts. This font looks best at 12pt.
 .
 unifont_upper.ttf is a bitmap font converted into a scalable TrueType
 outline font that covers Unicode ranges above Plane 0. Most of its
 glyphs are in Plane 1, the Unicode Supplemental Multilingual Plane (SMP).
 .
 unifont_csur.ttf is a bitmap font converted into a scalable TrueType
 outline font that contains some scripts in the ConScript Unicode
 Registry (CSUR). These scripts are not part of the Unicode Standard,
 but are a popular use for the Private Use Area (PUA). This font
 contains glyphs in Plane 0 and in the higher PUA planes.
 .
 unifont_sample.ttf is an SBIT font that contains combining circles
 and is therefore suitable for illustrating individual Unicode glyphs.
 The other font files do not contain combining circles and so are suitable
 for general-purpose writing.
 .
 Complex fonts (such as Indic or Semitic scripts, where letters change
 shape depending on their position in a word, or such as Mongolian, which
 can be written vertically) will not render perfectly. The philosophy
 behind this font, though, is that anything meaningful is better than
 an empty box for an unknown glyph.

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 This package is a convenient way to install the PCF bitmap version,
 PSF bitmap version, and the scalable TrueType outline version of "Unifont"
 (intended for general-purpose use) and "Unifont Sample" (which contains
 combining circles to use for illustration purposes). It also installs
 a copy of unifont.hex and related files in /usr/share/unifont.
 .
 GNU Unifont was designed to render something besides an empty box
 for each visible Unicode character in the Basic Multilingual Plane
 (BMP, or Plane 0). The BMP contains most of the world's modern writing
 scripts. This font looks best at 12pt.
 .
 Complex fonts (such as Indic or Semitic scripts, where letters change
 shape depending on their position in a word, or such as Mongolian, which
 can be written vertically) will not render perfectly. The philosophy
 behind this font, though, is that anything meaningful is better than
 an empty box for an unknown glyph.

 This is a set of Perl scripts, C programs, and FontForge scripts
 to manipulate Roman Czyborra's GNU Unifont ".hex" format font
 files. GNU Unifont has a Unicode-compatible font structure.
 These utilities allow editing ".hex" fonts with text and
 graphical editors, producing final versions of fonts in BDF,
 PCF, PSF, TrueType SBIT, and TrueType outline formats.
 .
 To build the TrueType fonts, install the package 'fontforge'. To build
 the PCF fonts, use 'bdftopcf', which is in the 'xfonts-utils' package.
 To build the PSF font, use 'bdf2psf', which is in the 'console-setup'
 package. To obtain the font sources, run 'apt-get source unifont'.
 .
 Building the main Unifont TrueType font will require at least 4 GB of
 main memory. You only need texlive (~1 GB) if you want to rebuild the
 unifont.pdf file in doc/ (see doc/Makefile); this is not done by default.

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