README 
Annapurna SIL Release 1.100
October 2012
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Thank you for your interest in the Annapurna SIL font.
We hope you find it useful!

Annapurna SIL provides glyphs for a wide range of Devanagari and Latin.
Please read the online documentation to see what ranges are supported. 

Annapurna SIL is released under the SIL Open Font License.
Annapurna SIL is a trademark of SIL International.
	
See the OFL and OFL-FAQ for details of the SIL Open Font License.
See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases.


TIPS
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We cannot afford to offer free technical support. The font has, however, 
been through some testing on various platforms to be sure it works in most
situations. In particular, it has been tested and shown to work on Windows 
XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

If you do find a problem, please do report it to fonts@sil.org. We can't 
guarantee any direct response, but will try to fix reported bugs in future 
versions.

Many problems can be solved, or at least explained, through an understanding
of the encoding and use of the fonts. Here are some basic hints:

Encoding: 
The fonts are encoded according to Unicode, so your application must support
Unicode text in order to access letters other than the standard alphabet.
Most Windows applications provide basic Unicode support. You will, however,
need some way of entering Unicode text into your document.

Keyboarding: 
Annapurna SIL does not include any keyboarding helps or utilities. If you 
cannot use the built-in keyboards of the operating system, you should 
install the appropriate keyboard and input method for the characters of the 
language you wish to use. You will need to install the appropriate keyboard and 
input method for the characters of the language you wish to use. If you want to 
enter characters that are not supported by any system keyboard, the Keyman 
program (www.tavultesoft.com) can be helpful on Windows systems. Also available 
for Windows is MSKLC (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx). For 
other platforms, KMFL (http://kmfl.sourceforge.net/), 
XKB (http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB) or Ukelele (http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele) 
can be helpful.

If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any system keyboard, 
and to access the full Unicode range, we suggest you use gucharmap, kcharselect 
on Ubuntu or similar software. Another method of entering some symbols is 
provided by a few applications such as Adobe InDesign. They can display a glyph 
palette that shows all the glyphs (symbols) in a font and allow you to enter 
them by clicking on the glyph you want.

Rendering:
This font is designed to work with two advanced font technologies, 
Graphite and OpenType. To take advantage of the advanced typographic 
capabilities of this font, you must be using applications that provide an
adequate level of support for Graphite or OpenType.


INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
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If you are not sure how to install the fonts, please see:
http://scripts.sil.org/DecompressUtil for instructions on font installations on
various operating systems.


CONTACT
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For more information please visit the Annapurna SIL page on SIL International's 
Computers and Writing systems website:http://scripts.sil.org/AnnapurnaSIL or 
send an email to fonts@sil.org.
