README for "XSerif Old Russian" Font

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This font was made by Christoph Singer (csinger@mail.wplus.net) for SLOVO (http://www.odinet.de/slovo) by using TypeDesigner 3.0 by DTP Software (http://www.dtpsoft.de).
You may use it free of charge for non-profit purposes of education and research (that means you must not make money out of any material printed with this font!). It may also freely be distributed, provided that each copy will be accompanied by a copy of this xoldrus.txt file, but it may not be distributed for profit either on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product.
If you want to use the font for commercial purposes (e.g. to print a book that will be sold for profit) you will have to ask me for licence.
If the font doesn't completely match your needs (e.g. if you need some more special characters or if you prefere another encoding scheme) feel free to change and improve the font - under two conditions: 1. You must give away the improved version of the font as FREEWARE in the Internet (e. g. by uploading to a public FTP-Server) 2. Please tell me about your improved font and send me a copy of it (slovo@odinet.de or csinger@mail.wplus.net).
If you want to make changes to the font but are not able to edit fonts you may ask me to realize your suggestions.
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This is a Cyrillic font according to Windows Cyrillic Codepage (1251) but with some characters of pre-1918 Russian orthography added to the following char positions:

0134 - capital Yat'
0135 - small yat'
0164 - capital Fita
0169 - capital Izhitsa
0172 - small fita
0174 - small izhitsa
0176 - capital "Io" used in 18th century
0177 - small "io" used in 18th century

There are three ways to make use of these characters:
1. Change your keyboard layout, if you can (e. g. if using a program like CyrWin, WinKey or Janko's Keyboard Generator for Windows 95)
2. Type the position number of the character you want while pressing ALT key (make sure "NumLock" status is turned on)
3. Add the characters from Windows "Charmap" or "Special character" function of your text processor.

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Some characters (e. g. cyrillic d, ts, shch) may look strangely on your screen. It's probably because the "hints" (instructions to make a font look better at low resolutions) were not truely converted by "Type Designer" when creating the True Type font - in Type 1 format all characters looked quite well. But it's only on screen - on your printer the font will look as well as others do.