Overview of changes leading to 1.4.3
Saturday, February 25, 2017
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- Route Adlam script to Arabic shaper.
- Misc fixes.
- New API:
hb_font_set_face()
- Deprecate API:
hb_graphite2_font_get_gr_font()
Enable graphite2 dependency, as libreoffice seems to want it.
Overview of changes leading to 1.4.2
Monday, January 23, 2017
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- Implement OpenType Font Variation tables avar/fvar/HVAR/VVAR.
- hb-shape and hb-view now accept --variations.
- New API:
hb_variation_t
hb_variation_from_string()
hb_variation_to_string()
hb_font_set_variations()
hb_font_set_var_coords_design()
hb_font_get_var_coords_normalized()
hb-ot-var.h:
hb_ot_var_axis_t
hb_ot_var_has_data()
hb_ot_var_get_axis_count()
hb_ot_var_get_axes()
hb_ot_var_find_axis()
hb_ot_var_normalize_variations()
hb_ot_var_normalize_coords()
- MVAR to be implemented later. Access to named instances to be
implemented later as well.
- Misc fixes.
Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a Unicode font for medievalists.
The current version is a beta; the selection of characters and the
arrangement of the Private Use Area are subject to change.
Junicode contains 3280 characters in the regular style (the italic,
bold and bold italic styles are less complete). These Unicode ranges
are either complete in the regular style or they contain substantial
numbers of glyphs (especially those of interest to medievalists).
MASTER_SITES= site1 \
site2
style continuation lines to be simple repeated
MASTER_SITES+= site1
MASTER_SITES+= site2
lines. As previewed on tech-pkg. With thanks to rillig for fixing pkglint
accordingly.
Overview of changes leading to 1.4.1
Thursday, January 5, 2017
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- Always build and use UCDN for Unicode data by default.
Reduces dependence on version of Unicode data in glib,
specially in the Windows bundles we are shipping, which
have very old glib.
Overview of changes leading to 1.4.0
Thursday, January 5, 2017
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- Merged "OpenType GX" branch which adds core of support for
OpenType 1.8 Font Variations. To that extent, the relevant
new API is:
New API:
hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
with supporting API:
New API:
HB_OT_LAYOUT_NO_VARIATIONS_INDEX
hb_ot_layout_table_find_feature_variations()
hb_ot_layout_feature_with_variations_get_lookups()
hb_shape_plan_create2()
hb_shape_plan_create_cached2()
Currently variations in GSUB/GPOS/GDEF are fully supported,
and no other tables are supported. In particular, fvar/avar
are NOT supported, hence the hb_font_set_var_coords_normalized()
taking normalized coordinates. API to take design coordinates
will be added in the future.
HVAR/VVAR/MVAR support will also be added to hb-ot-font in the
future.
- Fix regression in GDEF glyph class processing.
- Add decompositions for Chakma, Limbu, and Balinese in USE shaper.
- Misc fixes.
* Many improvements from 1.0.38
The latest changelog:
Roman fonts version 2.020 and Italic fonts version 1.075 (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2, EOT)
Changed vendor ID to ADBO. (issue #52)
Updated x-height measurements in all fonts. (issue #57)
Updated name table to remove full license text from binary font files.
Removed NULL (U+0000) and CR (U+000D) glyphs from TrueType fonts.
The following changes only apply to the Italic fonts:
Updated right side bearing of quotedblbase and kerning of baseline quotes. (issue #49)
Added narrow no-break space (U+202F).
Moved fi and fl ligatures to the end of glyph order.
2016-12-22 Paul Hardy <unifoundry@unifoundry.com>
* Version: 9.0.06.
* Makefiles, src/unifontpic.c - changed version number to 9.0.06.
* font/plane00/unifont-base.hex:
- U+22F5: Added missing dot; thanks to Johnnie Weaver for noticing
this error.
* font/plane01/plane01.hex:
- Osage: Glyphs U+0104D9 and U+0104DA were swapped; Johnnie Weaver
corrected them. Shifted glyphs that were 7 pixels wide left one
pixel to line up on the leftmost column.
* font/plane0Fcsur/plane0Fcsur.hex:
- Pikto: Paul Hardy modified about 50 glyphs to improve shapes.
2016-12-10: Release 9.0.05
Modified Cherokee glyphs to reflect changes in recent Cherokee font
that the Unicode Consortium adopted for its code charts. Removed
serifs to make Cherokee glyphs easier to read.
Modified Pikto CSUR glyphs after comparison with high-resolution scans
of Basic Pikto book.
Overview of changes leading to 1.3.4
Monday, December 5, 2016
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- Fix vertical glyph origin in hb-ot-font.
- Implement CBDT/CBLC color font glyph extents in hb-ot-font.
Changes:
version 2.030 (romans) & version 1.050 (italics) created 2016/06/09
Updates outlines for Q to address interpolation issues.
version 2.028 (romans) & version 1.048 (italics) created 2016/06/08
Updates outlines for Q to address CFF hinting issues.
Corrects OpenType feature rules relating to capital figures and alternate 1s.
Fixes final names for fi and fl ligatures to f_i and f_l.
version 2.026 (romans) & version 1.046 (italics) created 2016/06/01
Updates the design of 1s in all styles for better character recognition.
Adds alternates for l (lowercase L) and 1. (issue #126)
Removes colored artwork from default forms of glyphs.
Adds IVSes for emoji representation for pictorial glyphs.
version 2.020 (romans) & version 1.040 (italics) created 2016/05/05
Fixes issue #121 for Italic.
Updates TT hinting for Block- and Quadrant glyphs (U+2080 -- U+209F).
Adds manual TT hints to specific Box Drawing Characters for improved horizontal connection.
version 2.015 (romans) & version 1.035 (italics) created 2016/05/02
Redesigns box drawing shades (issue #57).
Zeros widths of fraction characters in frac feature (issue #121).
Adds TrueType hints to box drawing characters (issue #122).
Removes NULL (U+0000) and CR (U+000D) glyphs from TrueType fonts.
Gzips SVG table documents.
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Version 4.40:
* Added 6 combining accents as separate characters.
* Added 14 letters with dot above / dot below.
* Added partial subscript and superscript: all digits and 11 letters.
* Added 30+ math characters, notably large braces, brackets and parens.
* Added unicode range 2800-28FF in two variants (br1 and br2).
* A few small character fixes.
* Altered configure to be a bit more POSIX compliant.
* Replaced some obscure (un)install Makefile targets with variables.
A family of high-quality WGL4 TrueType fonts, created by the Bigelow
& Holmes type foundry specifically for the Go project.
The font family, called Go (naturally), includes proportional- and
fixed-width faces in normal, bold, and italic renderings. The fonts
have been tested for technical uses, particularly programming. Go
source code looks particularly good when displayed in Go fonts, as
its name implies, with things like punctuation characters easily
distinguishable and operators lined up and placed consistently.
Merriweather is a workhorse text type family made specifically for
screens. Print use is not a significant consideration in the design.
Merriweather is useful for Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic and Greek. The
styles include Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic.
2016-10-29 Paul Hardy <unifoundry@unifoundry.com>
* Version: 9.0.04.
* font/plane00/unifont-base.hex:
- Extended "{" and "}" by one pixel to add a point in the center.
- Swapped U+2A05 and U+2A06; they were in reverse order.
* Added omitted ChangeLog entry for Unifont 9.0.03 for the addition
of Pikto glyphs to font/plane0Fcsur/plane0Fcsur.hex.
21 October 2016 Release (Unifont 9.0.03): This release updates some glyphs and adds these ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) scripts:
U+E8E0..U+E8F4 Tonal System, a base 16 system for counting, weights, and measures invented by John William Nystrom, a 19th-century civil engineer. Drawn by Paul Hardy.
U+F8C8 Aiha, by Ursula K. Le Guin, added the Aiha double combining glyph. This was omitted in the original CSUR Aiha description. Drawn by Paul Hardy.
U+0F0E70..U+0F11E7 Pikto, a pictographic Constructed Language ("ConLang") created by John E. Williams in the 1950s.
The addition of the Pikto script is the main change in this version. Andrew Miller scanned the Pikto pictographs from John Williams' Pikto book. Paul Hardy and Johnnie Weaver drew the Unifont Pikto glyphs. A detailed chart of these glyphs and their meanings is on the (very large, about 1 Mbyte!) Pikto page.
The Tonal System is a comprehensive base 16 counting and measuring system devised during the nascense of the international effort to standardize on a decimal system of measurement. A Tonal System overview appears on this Tonal page.
The large bitmap linked at the top of this page now includes the Plane 0 CSUR glyphs.
Lato is a sans-serif typeface family designed in the Summer 2010 by
Warsaw-based designer Lukasz Dziedzic ("Lato" means "Summer" in
Polish). In December 2010 the Lato family was published under the
open-source Open Font License by his foundry tyPoland, with support
from Google.
In 2013-2014, the family was greatly extended to cover 3000+ glyphs
per style. The Lato 2.010 family now supports 100+ Latin-based
languages, 50+ Cyrillic-based languages as well as Greek and IPA
phonetics. In the process, the metrics and kerning of the family
have been revised and four additional weights were created.
Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface family.
Initially designed by Matt McInerney as a single thin weight, it
was expanded into a 9 weight family by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo
Fuenzalida in 2012 and iKerned by Igino Marini. In 2013 the Italics
where added.
It is a display face and the download features both old style and
lining numerals, standard and discretionary ligatures, a pretty
complete set of diacritics, as well as a stylistic alternate inspired
by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than its neo-grotesque
inspired default character set.
Use the main webpage tarball, which also includes CJK and Emoji
in hinted versions.
Changes: many more characters, covers all of Unicode, it claims,
and switched license to ofl-v1.1 (from apache-2.0).
Overview of changes leading to 1.3.2
Wednesday, September 27, 2016
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- Fix build of hb-coretext on older OS X versions.
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0.0.25
- outline and spacing on C,G.
- improved terminals on numerous glyphs
- weight/stem width fixes (k,G)
- port imrpovements from regular to bold
- improved metrics
- fixes to f-ligatures
- shape fixes to some numerals
- fixes to anchors > composited glyphs
----------------------------------
Changes in version 4.1:
* Detect iconv and add LIBICONV to LDADD
* Detect support for -Wl,--as-needed in configure
* Those changes fix compilation on OS X
Changes in version 4.0:
* Add a --no-embed option
* Fix broken handling of font names
---------------------------------
1.06 2016-08-17
* Source repo moved from Subversion to Github
* OpenType script and lang tags updated from ISO/IEC 14496-22:2015, draft amendment 2
* Various POD improvements
* Add deepcopy mode to Dumper::ttfdump()
* Bug fixes
* Wasn't installing on Windows Perl 5.22 and up
* Reading mark-to-ligature lookups would crash if anchors were omitted
* Incorrect extension lookup structure
* Multiple fixes in Silf table processing
* rt.cpan.org #106562 Uninitialized value warnings
* rt.cpan.org #106816 spelling errors in manpage
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0.07 2015-09-27 dmol@cpan.org
- No changes since 0.07_2
0.07_2 2015-09-24 dmol@cpan.org
- Try to support utf8_to_uvchr_buf for older perls
0.07_1 2015-09-24 dmol@cpan.org
- Fix UTF-8 string usage on non-intel architectures (GH#17)
0.06 2015-01-27 dmol@cpan.org
- No changes since 0.06_1
0.06_1 2015-01-27 dmol@cpan.org
- Allow optionally fallback to missing glyph
0.05 2015-01-27 dmol@cpan.org
- No changes since 0.05_02
0.05_2 2015-01-23 dmol@cpan.org
- Be more tolerant in test for checking underline position
(CT#9d93130c-a254-11e4-9a11-67e5227a829d) (Ivan Baidakou, basiliscos).
- Get build options from freetype-config if it exists (RT#101654)
(Zakariyya Mughal).
0.05_1 2015-01-21 dmol@cpan.org
- Avoid clang warning (RT#101653).
- Attempt to fix CT#939e0664-8c46-11e4-8147-dcee86cc0d3a.
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(pkgsrc changes)
- Drop patch-FreeType.xs (upstream implemented)
- Modify patch-Makefile.PL
Upstream implemented automatic environment config, with some
testing, but testing part is redundent to pkgsrc, and yet harmfull,
so remove that part.
- Add buildlink to x11.buildlink3.mk to use freetype-config
for automatic configuration
