Readme file for JSL Ancient fonts<br />
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                             19 August 1997<br />
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The "JSL Ancient" and "JSL Ancient Italic"  fonts  are  based  upon  two<br />
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nearly  identical  typefaces  of  seventeenth-century  English printers.<br />
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The first source used was "A compendious view  of  the  late  tumults  &<br />
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troubles  in  this  kingdom  by way of annals for seven years", by James<br />
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Wright, printed by Edward Jones in 1685; the second was  "Ars  Pictoria,<br />
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or  an  Academy  treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning and Etching", by<br />
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Alexander Browne, printed by J. Redmayne in 1668.<br />
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The two source typefaces are nearly identical, and the most  interesting<br />
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features,  such  as  the  descender on the italic capital N, are present<br />
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in both.  I used Redmayne's typeface primarily to fill  in  the  missing<br />
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letters  from  Jones'.  Both typefaces had several different versions of<br />
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certain italic capitals; I chose the more interesting ones.  One feature<br />
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of  Redmayne's  italic  typeface  that  was  lacking  in  Jones' was the<br />
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peculiar extensions of horizontal strokes, used to reduce the amount  of<br />
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whitespace used when justifying shorter lines of text. (I may eventually<br />
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produce  a  "JSL  Ancient  Italic  Bold"  which  includes these extended<br />
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letters.)<br />
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I used Fontographer 3.5.2 to produce  these  fonts.   Because  they  use<br />
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ANSI  encoding,  the glyph mapping will be somewhat different under OS/2<br />
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and the Macintosh.  For some reason, the TrueType version does not  work<br />
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under  OS/2,  so  I have generated both TrueType and Adobe Type I fonts.<br />
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Unfortunately, most of the cool ligatures are not used  by  the  default<br />
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OS/2  codepage (which all of the applications seem to use, regardless of<br />
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the config.sys setting), so they're pretty much 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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Character                     JSL Ancient<br />
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  Code      JSL Ancient       Italic            Arial<br />
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   0129                       Alternate 'v'     unused<br />
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   0130                       'sl' ligature     bottom single quote<br />
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   0131     Long 's'          Long 's'          florin (script f)<br />
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   0132                       'll' ligature     bottom double quote<br />
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   0134     'st' ligature     'st' ligature     dagger<br />
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   0135     'sh' ligature     'sh' ligature     double dagger<br />
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   0142     'ff' ligature     'ff' ligature     unused<br />
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   0143                       'is' ligature     unused<br />
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   0157     'ss' ligature     'ss' ligature     unused<br />
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   0158     'ct' ligature     'ct' ligature     unused<br />
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(A blank entry in JSL Ancient indicates that the code refers to the same<br />
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character as in Arial.)<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 'ct' ligature)<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 Ancient and JSL Ancient Italic are copyright (c) 1997 by Jeffrey  S.<br />
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Lee.   Permission  is  granted  to freely distribute them, provided that<br />
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they are distributed unaltered, both the roman and italic  versions  are<br />
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distributed  together, and they are accompanied by this text file.  They<br />
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may not be included in any commercial package without  prior  permission<br />
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from  the  author.   These  fonts  are "emailware"; if you like them and<br />
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decide to use them, please send me email at the address listed below.  I<br />
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will  not  charge  you  any  money  or send you annoying email spam; I'm<br />
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simply interested in who's using it, and I'd be  happy  to  receive  any<br />
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comments you might have about the fonts.<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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