Mona font version 2.90 (shinonome-0.9.9) $Id: README.ascii,v 1.5 2003/09/10 02:54:10 s42335 Exp $ NOTE: This document might be obsolete. The latest information is on the web. See http://monafont.sourceforge.net/ Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly. Mona Font is based on Shinonome Font. NOTICE: this file is mainly for X11 users. -- Changes monafont-2.90 (Sep. 9, 2003) True outlines added. JPY symbol in the Unicode bitmap fonts (-mona-gothic-*-iso10646-1) fixed. monafont-2.30-pre2 (Aug. 5, 2003) Welcome back. Now we're using kochi-substitue as outlines. (Jun. 18, 2003) 2.30-pre release was withheld due to the license problem in Kochi-Gothic. Sad. monafont-2.30-pre (Jan. 11, 2003) Embedded Kochi-Gothic as outlines. Optimized ttfpack (by 18). Spec modified. monafont-2.23 (Dec 22, 2002) Tilda fixed. spec fixed. monafont-2.22 (Dec 20, 2002) Added English documents. ISO-10646 (Unicode) supported for all font sizes. Updated 16pt glyphs. Optimized make_cmap (thanks to 18). monafont-2.21 (Jun 23, 2002) Moved to sourceforge.net. Synchronized with Shinonome-0.9.8 (0.9.9). fixed a jis2unicode bug. AA patch by anonymous 638th is applied. Now supports Cyrillic and Greek in Windows version. -- Directories README ... this file Makefile ... a Makefile for creating BDFs dist/ ... a directory that contains BDFs fonts.alias.mona ... a font alias file for X11 src/ ... Mona Font source file (in .bit format) tools/ ... tools used for generating BDFs ttfsrc/ ... a Makefile and additional sources for TTFs ttftools/ ... tools user for generating TTFs README-ttftools ... description of TTF tools (in Japanese) width/ ... the width data of MS P Gothic -- Installation and usage on X11 Requirement: Perl5 or higher, X11R6 1. Setup the pathname of sed, perl, gzip(compress), and X11. Modify variables SED_CMD, PERL_CMD, GZIP_CMD, X11BINDIR and X11FONTDIR in the Makefile. NOTICE: For commercial UN*X systems such as Solaris, HP-UX, you need to use compress for comressing pcf files instead of gzip. See the comments in the Makefile. 2. Make. It takes 6-7 minutes on my system (Linux-2.2, PIII, 500MHz). Just ignore warnings printed by jis2unicode during makeing. 3. Make install. In default, the fonts will be installed into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local. 4. (optional) If you've installed Kappa and Elisa fonts, you can add the content of fonts.alias.mona file into the end of fonts.alias file in the destination directory. It allows to use other fonts as a part of Mona Font. It's done automatically if you type make install-alias. 5. Change the fontpath and restart xfs/Xserver. You need to add the following pathname to *the end of* the fontpath: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/:unscaled Then restart xfs/Xserver, or type 'xset fp rehash'. Now Mona Font is available on your machine. This step varies in systems. So please consult the manuals about how to install new fonts. NOTICE: Make sure to specify ":unscaled", otherwise fonts are scaled unnecessarily. It looks ugly. NOTICE: DON'T USE MONA FONT in Emacs or XTerm! They don't support proportional fonts! 6. If you're using Mozilla, set the Japanese font used for page rendering to: mona-gothic-jisx0208.1990-0 (Sans Serif) and the font size to: 16.0 Then set the Unicode font to: mona-gothic-iso10646-1 (Sans Serif) and the font size to: 16.0 NOTICE: Almost all text arts are adjusted for 16.0 points. 7. Go to BBS for text arts! -- Terms and Conditions Mona Font comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. Mona Font is in public domain. -- Acknowledgements We thank to: Yasuyuki Furukawa (the original author of Shinonome Font, Kochi Gothic, mkbold, and mkitalic) /efont/ Project NAGAO Sadakazu (mkbold) Toshiyuki Imamura and HANATAKA Shinya ({K12,K14,K16}-2000) Katsuya Odajima (a16rk) Hiroki Kano (bit2bdf, Kochi-CID) Anonymous 18th in Ni-Channel BBS (omaemona, oremona, monak14-ext, lots of fixes) Anonymous 638th in Ni-Channel BBS (AA patch) Yukihiro Nakai (RPM spec file for RedHat) Many people who tested Mona Font in Macintosh and Windows NT. Lots of Ni-Channelers and text art wizards! -- Links Monafont Homepage: http://monafont.sourceforge.net/ Author: s42335@users.sourceforge.net