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