BIZNET ISO 8859-2 (Central European) X Window System Fonts
                           Release Notes


                      BIZNET Poland sp. z o.o.

                           March 1, 1997



1. Copyright Notice.

The BIZNET ISO 8859-2 (Central European) X Window System Fonts 
have been derived from the original ISO 8859-1 fonts included 
in the X Window System, Version 11, Release 6.3 distribution 
(X11R6.3). The following copyright notices apply to the 
original ISO 8859-1 fonts:


 Copyright c 1994 X Consortium.
 Copyright c 1984-1989, 1994 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
 Copyright c 1986, 1985 Bigelow & Holmes.
 Copyright c 1988, 1994 Digital Equipment Corporation.
 Copyright c 1988 Bitstream, Inc.
 Copyright c 1989-1991 Network Computing Devices, Inc.
 Copyright c 1989 Sony Corp.

 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person 
 obtaining a copy of this software and associated 
 documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the 
 Software without restriction, including without limitation 
 the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, 
 sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to 
 permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, 
 subject to the following conditions:
 
 The above copyright notices and this permission notice shall 
 be included in all copies or substantial portions of the 
 Software.

 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY 
 KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE 
 WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
 PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 
 X Consortium BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 
 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR 
 OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE 
 SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

 Except as contained in this notice, the name of the 
 X Consortium shall not be used in advertising or otherwise 
 to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software 
 without prior written authorization from the X Consortium.
 
 * X Window System is a trademark of X Consortium, Inc.
 * Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may 
   be registered in certain jurisdictions.
 * Times is a trademark of Linotype-Hell AG and/or its 
   subsidiaries.
 * Helvetica is a trademark of Linotype-Hell AG and/or its 
   subsidiaries.
 * New Century Schoolbook is a trademark of Linotype-Hell AG 
   and/or its subsidiaries.
 * The names "Bitstream" and "Charter" are registered trademark 
   of Bitstream, Inc.
 * Lucida is a registered trademark of Bigelow & Holmes.

In addition to the above notices, the following copyright 
notice applies to the BIZNET ISO 8859-2 (Central European) 
X Window System Fonts:

 Copyright c 1996, 1997 BIZNET Poland, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 * BIZNET is a registered trademark of BIZNET Poland, Inc.
 * The names BIZNET Aplos, BIZNET Anagnostiko, BIZNET Chimera, 
   BIZNET Chartis, BIZNET Fotinos and BIZNET Kathimerini are 
   trademarks of BIZNET Poland, Inc.



2. Distribution.

The BIZNET ISO 8859-2 (Central European) X Window System Fonts 
are distributed as multiple compressed (with GNU gzip) tar 
files:

ISO8859-2-bdf.tar.gz  - source font files in the BDF format 
(Adobe Bitmap Distribution Format)
ISO8859-2-pcf.tar.gz  - font files in the PCF (Portable 
Compiled Font) format
ISO8859-2-pcfZ.tar.gz - compressed PCF font files (.pcf.Z)



3. Easy Installation.

You will need the GNU gunzip command to uncompress the 
distribution file and the tar command to extract font files 
from the archive. To install the fonts in your system you need 
to create an empty directory and unpack one of the provided 
distribution tar files in this directory. For example:

  mkdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/latin2
  gunzip -c ISO8859-2-pcf.tar.gz | (cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/latin2; tar xvf -)

This command will create subdirectories misc, 75dpi and 100dpi 
in the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/latin2 directory; The fonts files in 
the PCF format (Portable Compiled Font) will be unpacked into 
these subdirectories.

Then you will need to use the xset command to append these 
directories to the Xserver font path:

  xset fp+ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc
  xset fp+ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi

Now, you can check whether the fonts are available to your 
system. The command:

  xlsfonts -fn '*-iso8859-2' | more

will list the names of all the available ISO-8859-2 X Window 
fonts. You may use the xfd command to view the full character 
set of a given font. For example:

  xfd -fn '-adobe-times-medium-i-normal--20-140-100-100-p-94-iso8859-2'

To change your font path permanently you must to modify the 
configuration of your Xserver.



4. Overview of the ISO 8859-2 X Window System Fonts.

The BIZNET ISO 8859-2 (Central European) X Window System Fonts 
are a set of ISO 8859-2 (sometimes called also ISO Latin2) 
X Window System bitmap typefaces. The ISO 8859-2 is a part of 
the ISO 8859 standard for 8bit (single-byte) digital character 
sets for Western alphabets (i.e. Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, 
Hebrew and Greek). The ISO 8859 standard was developed by ECMA 
(European Computer Manufacturer's Association) and approved by 
the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).

The ISO 8859-2 is the official ISO standard for encoding 
national characters in several Latin-written Slavic and Central 
European languages. It applies to Albanian, Croatian, Czech, 
Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Slovak, Slovene and Sorbian (in 
addition it can be used for English, Finnish, Irish and 
German). However, the standard distribution of the X Window 
System is lacking support for ISO 8859-2. 

The BIZNET ISO 8859-2 (Central European) X Window System 
Font set contains ISO 8859-2 typefaces derived from the 
original ISO 8859-1 typefaces included into the X Window 
System, Version 11, Release 6.3 (X11R6.3). The set contains 395 
different typefaces. The set contains a `twin' ISO 8859-2 font 
for every ISO 8859-1 font from X11R6.3. Therefore, it is 
sufficient to change `1' (or `*') to `2' in the charset 
encoding field of the font name to select the corresponding 
ISO 8859-2 font instead of the original ISO 8859-1 font. 

The fonts provide the same look and feel as the originals, 
including metric information. All the fonts contain the full 
ISO 8859-2 character set. 

The names of the BIZNET ISO 8859-2 (Central European) 
X Window System Fonts contain the name  `BIZNET' in the foundry 
field. In addition, to avoid trademark names, such as Times, 
Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Lucida, Utopia or Charter, 
the family names have been changed to BIZNET Kathimerini, 
BIZNET Aplos, BIZNET Anagnostiko, BIZNET Fotinos, BIZNET 
Chimera and BIZNET Chartis respectively. For improved 
functionality the fonts.alias files have been provided. 

For example, the font name 

  -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-11-80-100-100-p-69-iso8859-2

is an alias which will be resolved to the name of the font

  -biznet-fotinos-bold-i-normal-sans-11-80-100-100-p-69-
iso8859-2

which looks like Lucida Bold Italic Sans but contains all the 
ISO 8859-2 specific glyphs. The font.alias files comprise as 
well entries for `scalable' names. For example the `scalable' 
font alias

  -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-2

will be resolved as

-biznet-fotinos-bold-i-normal-sans-0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-2


5. Supported Systems.

The BIZNET ISO 8859-2 (Central European) X Window System Fonts 
are not specific to any particular platform or application. The 
fonts have been tested with several windowing and operating 
systems:

 Solaris 2.4  with OpenWindows 3.0
 Solaris 2.4 with X11R6
 Solaris 2.5.1 with X11R6.3
 Ultrix 4.4 with X11R6
 HP-UX 9.07 (HP-VUE)
 HP-UX 10.01, 10.10 (HP-CDE)
 FreeBSD 2.2 with XFree86 3.2

The fonts have been also successfully tested with several font 
servers:

 X11R6.3pl1 fontserver (xfs)
 HP-UX 9.07 fontserver
 IBM AIX 3.2.5 fontserver

as well as with several X Terminal systems (NCD, Tektronix, 
Enware) and X Window emulation software (e.g. eXcursion, 
eXceed). The fonts can be used in all the applications 
including Netscape, GNU Emacs, XEmacs, xterm, etc. 

We would like to acknowledge the beta version testers for their 
efforts and feedback: Wojciech Myszka of  Technical University 
of Wroclaw, Wojciech Sylwestrzak of ICM, Warsaw University and 
Piotr Piatkowski of Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow.


6. Comments or Problems.

If you have any problems or comments concerning the BIZNET 
ISO 8859-2 (Central European) X Window System Fonts send email 
to fontmaster@biz.net.pl. Otherwise, we can be reached at:

 BIZNET Poland sp. z o.o.
 Swietokrzyska 30/26
 00-116 Warszawa, Poland

 http://www.biz.net.pl