   1. What's this?
  =================

  The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document 
  layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.


   2. Requirements
  =================

  * fontforge to be installed.
    (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)


   3. Install
  ============

  3.1 Decompress tarball

    You can extract the files by following command:

      $ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz

  3.2 Build from the source

    Change into directory liberation-fonts-[VERSION]/ and build from sources by 
    following commands:

      $ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION]
      $ make

    The built font files will be available in 'build' directory.

  3.3 Install to system

    You can manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to ~/.fonts for user
    wide usage, or to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation for system-wide
    availability.


   4. Usage
  ==========

  The fonts should be installed and detected by the system after installation. 
  Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.


   5. License
  ============

  For redistribution information, please read the GPL license file 'COPYING'.

  For EULA information, please read file 'License.txt'.


   6. For Maintainers
  ====================

  Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to
  update the version number in the Makefile:

    VER = [VERSION]

  Make sure that the defined version corresponds to the font software metadata
  which you can check with ftinfo/otfinfo or fontforge itself. It is highly 
  recommended that file 'ChangeLog' is updated to reflect changes.

  Create a tarball with the following command:

    $ make dist

  The new versioned tarball will be available in the dist/ folder as
  'liberation-fonts-[NEW_VERSION].tar.gz'.

  7. Credits
 ============

 * Caius 'kaio' Chance <caius.chance AT gmail.com>
   - Current project maintainer.

 * Herbert Duerr <duerr AT sun.com>
   - Contributor of Liberation Sans Narrow Fonts.

 * Mark Webbink <mwebbink AT redhat.com>
   - Release coordinator, Red Hat Inc.

 * Steve Matteson
   - Designer, Ascender Inc.

 * And, all other anonymous participants.
