Source: fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact Section: fonts Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force Uploaders: Nicolas Spalinger , Daniel Glassey , Christian Perrier Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~) Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Homepage: http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium Package: fonts-sil-gentiumplus-compact Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, fontconfig Description: Smart Unicode fonts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic (tight spacing version) Gentium ("belonging to the nations" in Latin) is a Unicode typeface family designed to enable the many diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. Gentium has won a "Certificate of Excellence in Typeface Design" in two major international typeface design competitions: bukva:raz! (2001) and TDC2003 (2003). The goal is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs, and provide a matching Greek face. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics optimally. . Gentium Plus is based on the original Gentium design. However, it now has the full OpenType and Graphite support that Doulos SIL and Charis SIL contain — including full IPA support. . Gentium Plus Compact is a dedicated derivative with line spacing metrics modified to "Tight" via TypeTuner. More font sources (including web fonts and corresponding examples) are available in the main Gentium Plus release.