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
