Readme file for JSL Blackletter font<br />
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                             26 August 1997<br />
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The "JSL Blackletter" font is based upon a typeface created  by  William<br />
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Bullokar, for his "Booke at large, for the amendment of orthographie for<br />
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English speech", published in 1580 by  Henrie  Denham.   In  this  book,<br />
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Bullokar  attempted to regularise the spelling of English by adding some<br />
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letters to the English alphabet (mostly  combinations  of  two  letters,<br />
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such as "sh" or "ph"), and by using accents to mark the pronunciation of<br />
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vowels.<br />
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He also provided several example typefaces,  including  the  blackletter<br />
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alphabet  which  is  the basis for this font.  His new letters have been<br />
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removed, as I originally designed this font for the  purpose  of  repro-<br />
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ducing some blackletter broadside ballads which used the normal  English<br />
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orthography  of  the period.  (Obviously, his idea was met with the same<br />
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enthusiasm that was shown to the Metric System by the United States...)<br />
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I used Fontographer 3.5.2 to produce this font.  Because  it  uses  ANSI<br />
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encoding,  the  glyph  mapping will be somewhat different under OS/2 and<br />
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the Macintosh. Unfortunately, most of the cool ligatures  are  not  used<br />
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by the default OS/2 codepage (which all of the applications seem to use,<br />
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regardless  of  the  config.sys  setting),  so   they're   pretty   much<br />
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inaccessible.<br />
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The ISO Latin-1 characters (32-127, 160-255) are all  present;  many  of<br />
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the  extended Windows characters (128-159) are present as well, but some<br />
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have been replaced in order to provide  certain  ligatures  and  archaic<br />
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characters:<br />
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   0131     Long 's'          florin (script f)<br />
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   0134     'st' ligature     dagger<br />
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   0135     unused            double dagger<br />
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   0142     'ff' ligature     unused<br />
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   0143     dotless 'i'       unused<br />
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   0144     half 'r'          unused<br />
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   0157     'ss' ligature     unused<br />
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Under OS/2, the only special character available is the long 's',  which<br />
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can be accessed as Alt-159.<br />
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Certain Windows 3.1 printer drivers do not output characters  which  are<br />
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"unused"  by  the  base  Windows  character  sets (such as the half 'r')<br />
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unless the "Output TrueType fonts as graphics" box  is  checked  in  the<br />
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printer driver.  This problem may or may not occur under Windows 95, but<br />
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I can't say for certain.<br />
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JSL Blackletter is copyright (c) 1997 by Jeffrey S. Lee.  Permission  is<br />
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granted  to  freely  distribute  it,  provided  that  it  is distributed<br />
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unaltered, and it is accompanied by this  text  file.   It  may  not  be<br />
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included  in  any  commercial  package without prior permission from the<br />
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author.  This font is "emailware"; if you like it and decide to use  it,<br />
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please send me email at the address listed below.  I will not charge you<br />
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any money or send you annoying email  spam;  I'm  simply  interested  in<br />
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who's  using it, and I'd be happy to receive any comments you might have<br />
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about the font.<br />
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                                           Jeff Lee<br />
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                                           http://www.gate.net/~shipbrk/<br />
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                                           shipbrk@gate.net<br />
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