
This font package contains 5 TrueType fonts
  MinhQua^n (Courier)
  Hoa`ngYe^'n (Present-Script)
  UHoa`i (Utopia)
  Tha Hu+o+ng (Chancery)
  A'nh Minh (Optima)
                    by Cuong Bui, The TriChlor Group

and 1 TrueType font designed from scratch:
  HeoMay (Helvetica)
                    by Cuong T. Nguyen, The TriChlor Group.

      MinhQuan: fixed width, mostly used as a typewriter font,
                computer printout, and in legal document.
      HoangYen: script, handwriting style
      UHoai:    proportional spacing, variable outline width
      HeoMay:   proportional spacing, constant outline width

The TriChlor TrueType fonts, with the transformation provided by Windows
(regular, italic, bold and bold-italic) and scalable size,	
should allow one to generate "beautiful" and
professional looking publication in Vietnamese, such as
ba'o Xua^n, dda(.c san ... bi'ch ba'o, even book.

And the work can even be distributed on DOS, Windows and Unix
platforms, with the same data. 

The fonts use VISCII 1.1 encoding by Viet-Std.

If you use TriChlor tools to generate publications, we will be
glad to receive a souvenir/friendship copy.

Installation
============
1) Insert the floppy containing the package file VNFONT1X.EXE
  
2) Make a directory , for ex. VNFONTS:
     C:
     MKDIR C:\VNFONTS
   then change to that directory:
     CD C:\VNFONTS
3) Copy the file VNFONT1X.EXE from the floppy:
     COPY B:VNFONT1X.EXE C:
   and run it to extract the fonts:
     C:VNFONT1X

   After this, you will have the fonts

      NORMAL  fonts : minhquan.ttf, hoangyen.ttf, uhoai.ttf and heomay.ttf
      HOA     fonts : minhquah.ttf, hoangyeh.ttf,uhoaih.ttf and heomayh.ttf

   plus this readme file, the sample "baogio.wri" file and the copyright file.

4) Run Windows. Then double click on the Control icon. It will
   pop up a panel. Looks for the icon "ABC" (for fonts), then
   double click on this icon. This in turn will pop up another
   window, with panes showing what fonts currently installed.
   Click on the "Add" button, then select
   the directory containing the Vietnamese fonts. The
   fonts' names will be displayed on a panel. Click on a font
   name and "OK" to install it. Repeat this procedure for the
   other font names. Then close the Control window.

5) To use Vietnamese fonts in a Windows application, select
   the font and use it.

6) To type in Vietnamese for any Windows application, you need the program
   Winvnkey also by TriChlor.
   Or generate a VISCII file using vietdos/vnelvis, vps, viet1p6, butviet ...
   and read in the file. Commercial VN software such as T-Script by TIEN can
   also read and write in VISCII . Or if you have no access to 8-bit tool,
   write in Viet-Net/SCV/VIQR style, and use the program viet7to8 to
   convert it to VISCII.
   For "Write", make sure you select "No conversion".
   For Microsoft Word, choose the "Text only" filter.
   Then select the whole text, and change to Vietnamese fonts.
   Also see the note about Hoa font below.

7) To print is easy. Just click on print. Any printer supported
   by Windows will print Vietnamese.

8) To print on a Unix network PostScript printer: in Windows,
   select a PostScript printer, then select "Encapsulated
   Postscript". Return to the program, start printing. A window
   will pop up and ask you for a file name. Enter a file name.
   Transfer this file to Unix (using ftp or whatever), then
   just print it (lpr filename).

Testing
=======
   After you installed the fonts, use Write to open the enclosed sample
   file "baogio.wri". Play around with the point size, typeface, italic,
   bold ... The print document looks much better ;-). To print, just
   click on File, and select Print. All printers are supported via
   Windows.
 

The HOA (uppercase) fonts
=========================
Each typeface comes with 2 fonts, a normal font and a HOA font,
with the HOA font name ended in H. For example:
     UHoai   : normal font, both lowercase and uppercase chars.
     UHoaiH  : HOA font, all uppercase characters.

In order to produce some of the uppercase chars, particularly
the ones coded in C0 ( A(? A(~ A^~ Y? Y~ Y. ) , you may need
to switch to the corresponding HOA font for each of the
typeface. Basically, in the HOA font, all the chars are capital
(uppercase), so if you type "a?" you will get "A?", or select
"a?" in the text, and switch to HOA font to get "A?" . The
reason is Vietnamese has 134 chars, and usable slots are less
than 128 :-( . VISCII 1.1 has been designed so that all
lowercase chars and most uppercase chars are usable by 
most existing software. Some software uses certain Vietnamese
chars for their internal purpose, most of the time in the
uppercase area. Therefore, when one wants to produce certain
uppercase using these software, just switch to HOA font.
Each font comes with a normal font, and a HOA font to alleviate
this problem. Normally, the normal font should take care of
most of your needs.

Have fun writing !

==================
The TriChlor Group

==================

We can be reached at:
 via email : trichlor@haydn.stanford.edu
 via normal mail:
    TriChlor 
    3388 Burgundy Dr.
    San Jose, CA 95132

VISCII is the 8-bit Vietnamese coding scheme by Viet-Std. For
more information, contact 
 via email : viet-std@haydn.stanford.edu
 via normal mail:
    Viet-Std
    1212 Somerset Dr.
    San Jose, CA 95132


Bu`i Minh Cu+o+ng
(bui@berlioz.nsc.com)



