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.
Overview of changes leading to 1.1.3
Monday, January 11, 2016
====================================
- Ported Indic shaper to Unicode 8.0 data.
- Universal Shaping Engine fixes.
- Speed up CoreText shaper when font fallback happens in CoreText.
- Documentation improvements, thanks to Khaled Hosny.
- Very rough directwrite shaper for testing, thanks to Ebrahim Byagowi.
- Misc bug fixes.
- New API:
* Font extents:
hb_font_extents_t
hb_font_get_font_extents_func_t
hb_font_get_font_h_extents_func_t
hb_font_get_font_v_extents_func_t
hb_font_funcs_set_font_h_extents_func
hb_font_funcs_set_font_v_extents_func
hb_font_get_h_extents
hb_font_get_v_extents
hb_font_get_extents_for_direction
* Buffer message (aka debug):
hb_buffer_message_func_t
hb_buffer_set_message_func()
Actual message protocol to be fleshed out later.
Version 2.018 (release build)
ttf, otf, webfont builds
Patch for missing glyphs in regular set:
added U+016C (upper case U breve), regular set - Issue #21
added U+016D (lower case u breve), regular set - Issue #21
Version 2.017 (release build)
ttf, otf, webfont builds
Changes vs. release v2.015:
increased vertical position of the tilde (U+007E) to improve alignment with other glyphs - Issue #23
increased width of the vertical stroke on the dollar symbol (U+0024) - Issue #92
modified Cyrillic upper case C (U+0421) to differentiate from Latin C - Issues #22 & #29
modified Cyrillic lower case c (U+0441) to differentiate from Latin c - Issues #22 & #29
modified upper case theta (U+0398) to differentiate from lower case theta - Issue #36
added U+0132 (IJ) glyph - Issue #52
added U+0133 (ij) glyph - Issue #52
added U+013F (upper case L dot) glyph - Issue #52
added U+0140 (lower case l dot) glyph - Issue #52
added U+0162 (upper case T cedilla) glyph - Issue #52
added U+0163 (lower case t cedilla) glyph - Issue #52
added U+0138 (kgreenlandic) glyph - Issue #52
added U+266A (musical note) glyph - Issue #52
added U+0149 (lower case n apostrophe) - Issue #52
added U+1EF9 (lower case y tilde) glyph - Issue #102
added U+1EF8 (upper case Y tilde) glyph - Issue #102
added U+1EBD (lower case e tilde) glyph - Issue #102
added U+1EBC (upper case E tilde) glyph - Issue #102
added U+2116 (numero) glyph - Issues #22 & #114
added U+01A4 (p hook) glyph - Issue #105
added U+0108 (upper case C circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0109 (lower case c circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+011C (upper case G circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+011D (lower case g circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0124 (upper case H circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0125 (lower case h circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0134 (upper case J circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0135 (lower case j circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+015C (upper case S circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+015D (lower case s circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+016C (upper case U breve) - Issue #21
added U+016D (lower case u breve) - Issue #21
added U+20B7 (spesmilo) - Issue #21
fixed missing null glyph (U+0000) in regular, italic, bolditalic sets
removed duplicate CR glyph (U+000D) in all sets - Issue #149
updated ttfautohint to version 1.4.1 for TrueType (.ttf) build instruction sets
Version 2.016 (testing build)
increased vertical position of the tilde (U+007E) to improve alignment with other glyphs - Issue #23
increased width of the vertical stroke on the dollar symbol (U+0024) - Issue #92
modified Cyrillic upper case C (U+0421) to differentiate from Latin C - Issues #22 & #29
modified Cyrillic lower case c (U+0441) to differentiate from Latin c - Issues #22 & #29
modified upper case theta (U+0398) to differentiate from lower case theta - Issue #36
added U+1EF9 (lower case y tilde) glyph - Issue #102
added U+1EF8 (upper case Y tilde) glyph - Issue #102
added U+1EBD (lower case e tilde) glyph - Issue #102
added U+1EBC (upper case E tilde) glyph - Issue #102
added U+2116 (numero) glyph - Issues #22 & #114
added U+01A4 (p hook) glyph - Issue #105
added U+0108 (upper case C circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0109 (lower case c circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+011C (upper case G circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+011D (lower case g circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0124 (upper case H circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0125 (lower case h circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0134 (upper case J circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+0135 (lower case j circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+015C (upper case S circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+015D (lower case s circumflex) - Issue #21
added U+016C (upper case U breve) - Issue #21
added U+016D (lower case u breve) - Issue #21
added U+20B7 (spesmilo) - Issue #21
updated ttfautohint to version 1.4 for TrueType (.ttf) build instruction sets
Overview of changes leading to 1.1.2
Wednesday, November 26, 2015
====================================
- Fix badly-broken fallback shaper that affected terminology.
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/187
- Fix y_scaling in Graphite shaper.
- API changes:
* An unset glyph_h_origin() function in font-funcs now (sensibly)
implies horizontal origin at 0,0. Ie, the nil callback returns
true instead of false. As such, implementations that have a
glyph_h_origin() that simply returns true, can remove that function
with HarfBuzz >= 1.1.2. This results in a tiny speedup.
The find-prefix infrastructure was required in a pkgviews world where
packages installed from pkgsrc could have different installation
prefixes, and this was a way for a dependency prefix to be determined.
Now that pkgviews has been removed there is no longer any need for the
overhead of this infrastructure. Instead we use BUILDLINK_PREFIX.pkg
for dependencies pulled in via buildlink, or LOCALBASE/PREFIX where the
dependency is coming from pkgsrc.
Provides a reasonable performance win due to the reduction of `pkg_info
-qp` calls, some of which were redundant anyway as they were duplicating
the same information provided by BUILDLINK_PREFIX.pkg.
Overview of changes leading to 1.1.0
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
====================================
- Implement 'stch' stretch feature for Syriac Abbreviation Mark.
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/141
- Disable use of decompose_compatibility() callback.
- Implement "shaping" of various Unicode space characters, even
if the font does not support them.
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/153
- If font does not support U+2011 NO-BREAK HYPHEN, fallback to
U+2010 HYPHEN.
- Changes resulting from libFuzzer continuous fuzzing:
* Reject font tables that need more than 8 edits,
* Bound buffer growth during shaping to 32x,
* Fix assertions and other issues at OOM / buffer max-growth.
- Misc fixes and optimizations.
- API changes:
* All fonts created with hb_font_create() now inherit from
(ie. have parent) hb_font_get_empty().
Overview of changes leading to 1.0.6
Thursday, October 15, 2015
====================================
- Reduce max nesting level in OT lookups from 8 to 6.
Should not affect any real font as far as I know.
- Fix memory access issue in ot-font.
- Revert default load-flags of fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
back to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING. This was changed in
last release (1.0.5), but caused major issues, so revert.
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/143
Overview of changes leading to 1.0.5
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
====================================
- Fix multiple memory access bugs discovered using libFuzzer.
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/139
Everyone should upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
We now have continuous fuzzing set up, to avoid issues like
these creeping in again.
- Misc fixes.
- New API:
* hb_font_set_parent().
* hb_ft_font_[sg]et_load_flags()
The default flags for fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
has changed to default to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT now. Previously it
was defaulting to FT_LOAD_DFEAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.
- API changes:
* Fonts now default to units-per-EM as their scale, instead of 0.
* hb_font_create_sub_font() does NOT make parent font immutable
anymore. hb_font_make_immutable() does.
pkgsrc changes (no functional changes intended):
o unset USE_LANGUAGES
o use NO_BUILD instead of defining an empty do-build target
Changes:
# Version 2.015 (release build)
Changes vs. release v2.013:
- new vertical metrics = decreased line spacing height - Issues #28, #32, #39,
#41, #95, #103
- adjusted vertical position of the colon to a higher position, improves
alignment with other punctuation glyphs (U+003A) - Issue #66
- changed vertical position of the dash (U+002D) so that regular and oblique,
bold and bold oblique are properly aligned - Issue #107
- updated hinting algorithm for bold set (improved point position over stem of
lowercase j/i for some text sizes) - Issue #84
- underscore (U+005F) centered, increased width, increased height & aligned
vertical position closer to baseline - Issues #97, #98, #100, 103,
- increased vertical position of dieresis mark on lowercase u dieresis
(U+00FC) - Issue #61
- increased vertical position of dieresis mark on lowercase i dieresis (U+00EF)
- increased vertical position of dieresis mark on lowercase e dieresis (U+00EB)
- decreased vertical position of the asterisk (U+002A) - Issue #34
- new design for ascii tilde - broader curves, taller glyph with goal to
improve appearance at small text sizes where it tended to render like a dash
(U+007E) - Issue #37
- new ttf build autohinting script
(./postbuild_processing/tt-hinting/autohint.sh)
- new ttf build autohinting Control Instructions File - bold set
(./postbuild_processing/tt-hinting/Hack-Bold-TA.txt)
- new ttf build release script (./postbuild_processing/tt-hinting/release.sh)
- new web font release script
(./postbuild_processing/webfonts/releasewebfonts.sh)
- new vfb to UFO source file conversion script (./tools/makeufo.sh)
- new UFO source file types - includes separate source files for TrueType
(`*-TT.ufo`) and PostScript (`*-PS.ufo`) releases
- source file path changes: now includes separate `ufo` and `vfb` directories
under the `./source` repository directory
- Hack Open Font license updated to version 2.0. The license changes better
define the Hack project as a derivative project of the Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono typeface project and are intended to make the license more consistent
with the Bitstream Vera libre, open source license under which Hack is
co-licensed. There are no new restrictions on use of the fonts with these
license changes. Embedding permissions are made explicit in this version
of the Hack Open Font license.
# Version 2.013 (release build)
Changes vs. release v2.010:
- Fixed missing middle dot glyph (U+00B7), adjusted width of U+00B7 em box to
address spacing issues in editors that highlight empty spaces
(Issues #27 & #46)
- Powerline glyph alignment and size adjustments (Issue #33)
- Fixed name tables to address:
- incorrect oblique rendering with Java type renderers on OS X (Issue #26)
- incorrect italic + bold + bold oblique rendering in some syntax
highlighters (Issues #42, #50, #60)
- backslash character took inappropriate vertical alignment because of
incorrect slant angle in some editors (Issue #67)
- Changed oblique and bold oblique font names to "Hack Italic" and "Hack Bold
Italic" to address Windows listings
- Changed oblique and bold oblique webfont names to "hack-italic-webfont.[xxx]"
and "hack-bolditalic-webfont.[xxx]"
- Changed oblique and bold oblique basic Latin + Latin-1 webfont subsets to the
names "hack-italic-latin-webfont.[xxx]" and
"hack-bolditalic-latin-webfont.[xxx]"
- Changed license name from "Modified SIL Open Font License" to "Hack Open Font
License" to comply with SIL regulations for SIL Open Font License
modifications
- Removed all license references to SIL to comply with SIL regulations for
modifications of the SIL Open Font License
- Removed SIL Open Font License preamble from the Hack Open Font License to
comply with SIL regulations for modifications of the SIL Open Font License
- Removed the following statement from Hack Open Font License condition #3:
"This restriction only applies to the primary font name as presented to the
users." to address a reserved font name conflict with the Bitstream Vera
license
- Modified the build directory structure for the Hack web fonts
- Added Hack webfont CSS files to the build directory
GNU Unifont is an official GNU package. It is a dual-width
(8x16/16x16) bitmap font, designed to provide coverage for all of
Unicode Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
GNU Unifont has a glyph for each visible code point in the Unicode
Basic Multilingual Plane (Plane 0) and some glyphs in the Supplemental
Multilingual Plane (Plane 1). This version also includes many
glyphs in Michael Everson's ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR).
Unifont only provides a single glyph for each character, making it
impossible to handle any language properly that needs context-dependent
character shaping. It is supplied in the form of a hex file, with
a converter to convert it to BDF. See http://czyborra.com/unifont/
or http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html for more information. The
BDF font is converted to PCF, and the hex file is converted to a
TrueType font.
Overview of changes leading to 1.0.3
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
====================================
- Start of user documentation, from Simon Cozens!
- Implement glyph_extents() for TrueType fonts in hb-ot-font.
- Improve GPOS cursive attachments with conflicting lookups.
- More fixes for cluster-level = 1.
- Uniscribe positioning fix.
Hack is hand groomed and optically balanced to be a workhorse face
for code.
It has deep roots in the libre, open source typeface community and
expands upon the contributions of the Bitstream Vera & DejaVu
projects. The face has been re-designed with a larger glyph set,
modifications of the original glyph shapes (including distinct
point styles and semi-bold punctuation weight in the regular set
to make analphabetic characters less transparent), and meticulous
attention to metrics (including numerous spacing adjustments to
improve the rhythm of the face and the legibility of code at small
text sizes). The large x-height + wide aperture + low contrast
design combined with PostScript hinting/hint replacement programs
and a TrueType instruction set make it highly legible at commonly
used source code text sizes with a sweet spot that runs in the 8px
- 12px range on modern desktop and laptop monitors. Combine it with
an HD monitor and you can comfortably work at 6 or 7px sizes.
Font containing icons of online academic profiles
Add tex-comicneue{,-doc} 1.0
Use Comic Neue with TeX(-alike) systems
Add tex-esrelation{,-doc} 2015
Provides a symbol set for describing relations between ordered pairs
Add tex-sourceserifpro{,-doc} 1.1
Use SourceSerifPro with TeX(-alike) systems
Add tex-typicons{,-doc} 2.0.7
Font containing a set of web-related icons
2015-08-21 (Paul Sladen) Ubuntu Font Family version 0.83
Note: This release was created by binary patching from the v0.80
release using the scripts in 'sources/patch-0.80-0.83/' to rebuild
the necessary tables. The release selectively updates only those
proportional .ttf font files exhibiting the bug below bug number;
the Ubuntu Mono monospace font files remain unchanged, being the
original version 0.80 ones.
[Marc Foley]
* [Engineering] Fixed wrong characters appear in some mac apps. (LP: #1334363)
