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-   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 is installed.
-    (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)
-
-  * python fonttools
-    (https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/)
-
-   3. Install
-  ============
-
-  3.1 Get sources
-
-    The latest sources are available via github by checking out
-    the repo:
-
-       $ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
-
-    Or downloading the tar.gz file via [github](https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/tags).
-    For example 2.004 can be retrieved via:
-
-       $ wget https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/files/2579282/liberation-fonts-2.00.4.tar.gz
-
-    You can extract the files using the following command where VERSION=2.00.4:
-
-      $ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
-
-  3.2 Build from the source
-
-    Change into directory `liberation-fonts/` or `liberation-fonts-[VERSION]/` and build with
-    `make`:
-
-      $ make
-
-    The built font files will be available in 'liberation-fonts-ttf-[VERSION]' directory.
-
-  3.3 Install to system
-
-    For Fedora, you could 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. Then, run "fc-cache" to let that cached.
-
-    For other distributions, please check out corresponding documentation.
-
-
-   4. Usage
-  ==========
-
-  Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.
-
-
-   5. License
-  ============
-
-  This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
-  Version 1.1.
-
-  Please read file "LICENSE" for details.
-
-
-   6. For Maintainers
-  ====================
-
-  Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to
-  update the version suffix 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
- ============
-
-  Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.
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+  Liberation Fonts
+  =================
+
+  The Liberation Fonts is font collection which aims to provide document 
+  layout compatibility as usage of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.
+
+
+  Requirements
+  =================
+
+  * [fontforge](http://fontforge.sourceforge.net)
+  * [python fonttools](https://pypi.org/project/fonttools/)
+
+
+ Install
+  ============
+
+  1. Get sources
+
+   The latest sources are available via github by checking out the repo:
+    		$ git clone https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts
+
+   Or downloading the tar.gz file via [github](https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/tags).
+    eg. 2.00.5 can be retrieved via:
+			$ wget https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/files/2926169/liberation-fonts-2.00.5.tar.gz
+
+   You can extract the files using the following command where VERSION=2.00.4:
+  		$ tar zxvf liberation-fonts-[VERSION].tar.gz
+
+  2. Build from the source
+  
+			$ cd liberation-fonts    or   $ cd liberation-fonts-[VERSION]
+			$ make
+		
+   The binary font files will be available in 'liberation-fonts-ttf-[VERSION]' directory.
+
+  3. Install to system
+  
+   Fedora Users : 
+   One can manually install the fonts by copying the TTFs to `~/.fonts` for user wide usage, 
+   and/or to `/usr/share/fonts/liberation` for system-wide availability. 
+   Then, run `fc-cache` to let that cached.
+
+   Other distributions : 
+   please check out corresponding documentation.
+
+
+  Usage
+  ==========
+
+  Simply select preferred liberation font in applications and start using.
+
+
+   License
+  ============
+
+  This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,
+  Version 1.1.
+
+  Please read file "LICENSE" for details.
+
+
+   For Maintainers
+  ====================
+
+  Before packaging a new release based on a new source tarball, you have to
+  update the version suffix 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.`
+
+  Credits
+ ============
+
+  Please read file "AUTHORS" for list of contributors.