Here is the announcement for the stable release after 2 years, which
many features and bug fixes contains.
Summary of the changes since last stable release is:
- - Support the size specific design selection in OS/2 table version 5
- - Allow the modification on 'lang' and 'charset' objects
- - Increase the refcount in FcConfigSetCurrent()
- - some updates in orth files
- - Add --error-on-no-fonts option to fc-cache
- - Use lang=und instead of lang=xx for "undetermined"
- - Add FC_WEIGHT_DEMILIGHT and change from 65 to 55
- - Add FC_COLOR
- - Treat color fonts as scalable
- - no FC_LANG added with FcConfigSubstitute() when it has "und"
- - Hardcode blanks in library
- - Support symbol fonts
- - Unicode 8.0 support
- - Add hintstyle templates and default hintslight
- - GX font support
- - Improve the footprint issue on updating caches
- - Bump the cache version to 6
- - more bug fixes
- - and more...
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0.0.24
- asymmetric k for bold, fix stem width
- sync bold hyphen metrics with regular
0.0.23
- reworked anchors for correct accent rendering under
harfbuzz 1.2.0
- more anchor and combined glyph work
0.0.22
- improvements to the generation script
- bold: double quotes alignment
- rehint font with adobe toolkit
0.0.21
- bold: latin and cyrillic respace
- bold: adapt f ligatures for the new i
- redular: adjust spacing of Thorn, ß, ẞ
- bold: improvements form Cambay
- bold: match width of numerals to regular
- numerals - improved spacing
0.0.20.1
- fix composited glyph issues
- fix parallel build issue
0.0.20
- Cyrillic improvements
- x-height hinting tweaks
- sync bold to regular
- OE and oe ligatures
- ratio respaced
- capital sharp s for German
0.0.19
- generate oblique version
- more diacritics work; full Latin 4 coverage
- tabular figures
- fold over work done on Cambay (Pooja Saxena)
0.0.18.1
- improved terminals on a,e,r,s,S,l,2
- fix validation errors
0.0.18
- respaced t
- bold accents fixes
- consistent stem width and various Improvements on E, H, B and S
- harmonized o and c
- improved capitals
- superscript 123 fixes
- extra glyps for gtk+ (arrows, openbox)
- respaced 4 and 7
0.0.17.2
- rebuild accented glyphs for bold
0.0.17.1
- accent fixes
- revert ijbdklh to snap to caps height
- proper weight of f ligatures for bold
- respaced ligatures
0.0.17
- improved shapes and metrics by Nikolaus Waxweiler:
- baseline and bluezone fixes for autohinter to produce valid hints
- many glyphs adjusted for baseline and proper hinting.
Updated fonts/afm2pl to 0.7.1nb2
Updated fonts/gsftopkk to 1.19.2nb7
Updated fonts/lcdftypetools to 2.105
Updated fonts/ps2pkm to 1.8
Updated fonts/ttf2pk to 2.0nb2
Updated fonts/ttfdump to 0.5.5nb3
Updated fonts/tex-academicons{,-doc} to 1.7.0
Updated fonts/tex-adobemapping to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-alegreya{,-doc} to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-cabin{,-doc} to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-cbfonts-fd{,-doc} to 1.1
Updated fonts/tex-cmcyr{,-doc} to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-cmtiup{,-doc} to 2.1
Added fonts/tex-cmexb{,-doc} version 2016
Updated fonts/tex-cs to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-dantelogo{,-doc} to 0.03
Updated fonts/tex-drm{,-doc} to 4.4
Updated fonts/tex-erewhon{,-doc} to 1.05
Updated fonts/tex-fbb{,-doc} to 1.10
Updated fonts/tex-fetamont{,-doc} to 1.6
Updated fonts/tex-fira{,-doc} to 4.1.39731
Updated fonts/tex-fontawesome{,-doc} to 4.6.3.1
Updated fonts/tex-fontname{,-doc} to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-fontools{,-doc} to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-fontspec{,-doc} to 2.5a
Updated fonts/tex-gothic{,-doc} to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-inconsolata{,-doc} to 1.10
Updated fonts/tex-ipaex-type1{,-doc} to 0.3b.39722
Updated fonts/tex-knuth-local to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-luaotfload{,-doc} to 2.7.2
Updated fonts/tex-mflogo{,-doc} to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-newpx{,-doc} to 1.295
Updated fonts/tex-newtx{,-doc} to 1.466
Updated fonts/tex-newtxsf{,-doc} to 1.04
Updated fonts/tex-roboto{,-doc} to 2016
Updated fonts/tex-sourcecodepro{,-doc} to 2.6
Updated fonts/tex-sourceserifpro{,-doc} to 1.2
Updated fonts/tex-tex-gyre-math{,-doc} to 2016
Added fonts/tex-ptex-fonts{,-doc} version 0.0.2016
The versioning is quite confusing (2.010 vs 1.030). I went with
the lower version.
For the same reason I didn't use the github framework.
Changes:
Adds italic styles to family. (GitHub issue #6)
Adds Powerline symbols. (GitHub issue #43)
Adds mathematical operators specifically requested to date.
(GitHub issue #49)
Adds geometric shapes specifically requested to date. (GitHub
issue #51)
Changes vendor ID from ADBE to ADBO. (GitHub issue #80)
Updates name table to remove full license text. (GitHub issue
#83)
Increases length of em dash. (GitHub issue #85)
Adds character variants features (ccXX).
Adds support for some extended Latin (IPA).
Adds characters to fully support WGL4 standard.
Adds characters that were missing for Arabic and Hebrew
transliteration schemes.
Adds a few emoji characters.
Adds SVG colored versions of these characters: ☑ ✓ ♪ ♫ ♥ ♦ ☺ ☻
❤ ☕💩🤖🔒
Nudges the dot accent up to prevent from collapsing in CFF
fonts.
Adjusts design and positioning of cedillas.
Updates the design of the following glyphs in intermediate
weights, thanks to intermediate master: B, M, N, W, e, g, m,
w, Bstroke, Hbar, Oslash, Tbar, Eth, ae, bstroke, dcroat,
eogonek, hbar, oslash, oe, eth, zero.0, zero.0o, zero.0c, e.sups
Updates design of ringhalfleftmod, ringhalfrightmod.
The following changes only apply to the Roman fonts:
Adds support for Greek and Cyrillic. (GitHub issues #48 & #85)
Adds alternate lowercase i with foot serifs (ss04 – stylistic
set 4).
Overview of changes leading to 1.2.7
Monday, May 2, 2016
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- Blacklist another version of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic from Windows 7.
- Fix Mongolian Free Variation Selectors shaping with certain fonts.
- Fix Tibetan shorthand contractions shaping.
- Improved list of language tag mappings.
- Unbreak build on Windows CE.
- Make 'glyf' table loading lazy in hb-ot-font.
Oxygen Font is a project to design a desktop/gui font for integrated
use with the KDE desktop.
The basic concept for Oxygen Font is to design a clear, legible, sans
serif font which would be rendered with Freetype on Linux-based
devices. In addition a bold weight, plus regular and bold italics, and
a monospace version will be made.
Friday, April 8, 2016
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- Blacklist GDEF table of another set of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic.
- DirectWrite backend improvements. Note: DirectWrite backend is
exclusively for our internal testing and should NOT be used in any
production system whatsoever.
Overview of changes leading to 1.2.5
Monday, April 4, 2016
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- Fix GDEF mark-filtering-set, which was broken in 1.2.3.
Overview of changes leading to 1.2.4
Thursday, March 17, 2016
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- Synthesize GDEF glyph class for any glyph that does not have one in GDEF.
I really hope we don't discover broken fonts that shape badly with this
change.
- Misc build and other minor fixes.
- API changes:
- Added HB_NDEBUG. It's fine for production systems to define this to
disable high-overhead debugging checks. However, I also reduced the
overhead of those checks, so it's a non-issue right now. You can
forget it. Just not defining anything at all is fine.
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1.05 (r1069, 2015-01-26)
* Add support for GSUB Type 8 Reverse-chaining substitution
* OpenType script/lang/feature tags now based on ISO/IEC 14496-22
* Remove deprecated GDL_old.pm
*
* Bug fixes:
* Fix rt.cpan.org 92150, 93597
* Force 0xFFFF sentry to be in a segment by itself in format 4 cmap subtables
* Less aggressive cmap format 4 optimization to eliminate USV holes
* Fix various issues reading WOFF-compressed font tables
* Fix reading DSIG
the symptom being that ftttdrv.h (from freetype2) is not found. It
turns out that native X11 doesn't install ftttdrv.h for some reason
(probably an oversight) but that the lack is easily compensated
because the whole file contains only two substantive lines, neither of
which appears to be especially important.
PR 50902.
Overview of changes leading to 1.2.3
Thursday, February 25, 2016
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- Blacklist GDEF table of certain versions of Times New Roman (Bold) Italic,
due to bug in glyph class of ASCII double-quote character. This should
address "regression" introduced in 1.2.0 when we switched mark zeroing
in most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to BY_GDEF_LATE.
This fourth release in a week should finally stablize things...
- hb-ot-font's get_glyph() implementation saw some optimizations. Though,
might be really hard to measure in real-world situations.
- Also, two rather small API changes:
We now disable some time-consuming internal bookkeeping if built with NDEBUG
defined. This is a first time that we use NDEBUG to disable debug code. If
there exist production systems that do NOT want to enable NDEBUG, please let
me know and I'll add HB_NDEBUG.
Added get_nominal_glyph() and get_variation_glyph() instead of get_glyph()
New API:
- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph_func_t
- hb_font_get_variation_glyph_func_t
- hb_font_funcs_set_nominal_glyph_func()
- hb_font_funcs_set_variation_glyph_func()
- hb_font_get_nominal_glyph()
- hb_font_get_variation_glyph()
Deprecated API:
- hb_font_get_glyph_func_t
- hb_font_funcs_set_glyph_func()
Clients that implement their own font-funcs are encouraged to replace
their get_glyph() implementation with a get_nominal_glyph() and
get_variation_glyph() pair. The variation version can assume that
variation_selector argument is not zero. Old (deprecated) functions
will continue working indefinitely using internal gymnastics; it is
just more efficient to use the new functions.
Overview of changes leading to 1.2.2
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
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- Fix regression with mark positioning with fonts that have
non-zero mark advances. This was introduced in 1.2.0 while
trying to make mark and cursive attachments to work together.
I have partially reverted that, so this version is much more
like what we had before. All clients who updated to 1.2.0
should update to this version.
Overview of changes leading to 1.2.1
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
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- CoreText: Fix bug with wrong scale if font scale was changed later.
https://github.com/libass/libass/issues/212
- CoreText: Drastically speed up font initialization.
- CoreText: Fix tiny leak.
- Group ZWJ/ZWNJ with previous syllable under cluster-level=0.
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/217
- Add test/shaping/README.md about how to add tests to the suite.
Overview of changes leading to 1.2.0
Friday, February 19, 2016
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- Fix various issues (hangs mostly) in case of memory allocation failure.
- Change mark zeroing types of most shapers from BY_UNICODE_LATE to
BY_GDEF_LATE. This seems to be what Uniscribe does.
- Change mark zeroing of USE shaper from NONE to BY_GDEF_EARLY. That's
what Windows does.
- Allow GPOS cursive connection on marks, and fix the interaction with
mark attachment. This work resulted in some changes to how mark
attachments work. See:
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/21186c68c7a2c
- Graphite2 shaper: improved negative advance handling (eg. Nastaliq).
- Add nmake-based build system for Windows.
- Minor speedup.
- Misc. improvements.
The font families PT Sans and PT Serif were released in 2009-2010
with an open user license. The main aim of the project is to allow
the peoples of Russia to read and write in their native languages.
The project is dedicated to the 300-year anniversary of the civil
type invented by Peter the Great in 1708-1710 and was realized with
financial support from the Federal Agency for Press and Mass
Communications.
The fonts, beside the standard Western, Central European and Cyrillic
code pages, also contain characters of all title languages of the
Russian Federation.
2.0.14:
Ryan Gordon - Fri Jan 29 12:53:29 PST 2016
* Deprecated TTF_GetFontKerningSize() which takes font glyph indices
and added TTF_GetFontKerningSizeGlyphs() which takes characters
The STIX fonts are a suite of unicode OpenType fonts containing
a complete set of mathematical glyphs. This otf package makes
the fonts available to X11 apps.
Changes:
# Version 2.019 (release build)
ttf, otf, webfont builds
- removed SVG from webfont releases
- Corrected U+2588 glyph shape in regular set (had inappropriately small
width and height)
- decreased width U+2580 all sets
- decreased width U+2581 all sets
- decreased width U+2582 all sets
- decreased width U+2583 all sets
- decreased width U+2584 all sets
- decreased width U+2585 all sets
- decreased width U+2586 all sets
- decreased width U+2857 all sets
- adjusted left sidebearing U+2589 all sets
- adjusted left sidebearing U+258A all sets
- adjusted left sidebearing U+258B all sets
- adjusted left sidebearing U+258C all sets
- adjusted left sidebearing U+258D all sets
- adjusted left sidebearing U+258E all sets
- adjusted left sidebearing U+258F all sets
- adjusted right sidebearing U+2590 all sets
- decreased width of U+2594 all sets
- adjusted right sidebearing U+2595 all sets
- adjusted left sidebearing U+2596 all sets
- adjusted right sidebearing U+2597 all sets
- adjusted left sidebearing U+2598 all sets
- decreased width of U+2599 all sets
- decreased width of U+259A all sets
- decreased width of U+259B all sets
- decreased width of U+259C all sets
- adjusted right sidebearing U+259D all sets
- decreased width of U+259E all sets
- decreased width of U+259F all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+2580 all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+2588 all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+2589 all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+258A all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+258B all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+258C all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+258D all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+258E all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+258F all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+2590 all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+2594 all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+2595 all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+2598 all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+2599 all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+259A all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+259B all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+259C all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+259D all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+259E all sets
- increased upper terminal position to 1950 units U+259F all sets
- reverted Cyrillic lower case es glyph (U+0441) to Latin lower case c shape
- reverted Cyrillic upper case es glyph (U+0421) to Latin upper case C shape
Code New Roman is aimed for use in programming environments and
other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. All
characters have the same width, like old typewriters, making it a
good choice for programmers. This font improved and target to Mac
OS Western New Roman, MONACO, Windows Consolas/Lusida Consolas,
ABeeZee and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.This font display allowed a
design with proportions closer to normal text than traditional
monospaced fonts like Courier. This allows for more comfortably
reading of extended text on screen. OpenType features include
hanging or lining numerals; slashed, dotted and normal zeros; and
alternative shapes for a number of lower-case letters. The look of
text can be tuned to personal taste by varying the number of bars
and waves.
The design of Cutive, and this monospace sister family Cutive Mono,
is based on a number of classic typewriter typefaces, in particular
the faces of IBM's 'Executive,' and the older 'Smith-Premier.' In
Cutive these old faces re-emerge as webfonts that are useful for
adding character to body texts as well as in larger sizes for
headers and display.
Programming languages are limited to relatively few characters. As
a result, combined character operators surfaced quite early, such
as the widely used arrow (->), comprised of a hyphen and greater
sign. It looks like an arrow if you know the analogy and squint a
bit.
Composite glyphs are problematic in languages such as Haskell which
utilize these complicated operators (=> -< >>= etc.) extensively.
The readability of such complex code improves with pretty printing.
Academic articles featuring Haskell code often use lhs2tex to
achieve an appealing rendering, but it is of no use when programming.
Some Haskellers have resorted to Unicode symbols, which are valid
in the ghc. However they are one-character-wide and therefore
eye-strainingly small. Furthermore, when displayed as substitutes
to the underlying multi-character representation, as vim2hs does,
the characters go out of alignment.
Hasklig solves the problem the way typographers have always solved
ill-fitting characters which co-occur often: ligatures. The underlying
code stays the same - only the representation changes. Not only
can multi-character glyphs be rendered more vividly, other problematic
things in monospaced fonts, such as spacing can be corrected.
Fira Code is a Fira Mono font extended with a set of ligatures for
common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a
font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible.
This helps to read and understand code faster. For some frequent
sequences like .. or // ligatures allow us to correct spacing.
Office Code Pro is a customized version of Source Code Pro, the
monospaced sans serif originally created by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe
Systems Incorporated. The customizations were made specifically
for text editors and coding environments, but are still very usable
in other applications.
