X-Git-Url: http://git.shiar.nl/unifont.git/blobdiff_plain/48e3a36faf203c4d25e024994f103fce1fcc8fca..HEAD:/NEWS diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 349d8b5..2f6dc06 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,153 @@ +2015-06-28: Release 8.0.01 + + Updates to support Unicode 8.0.0. + +2014-10-23: Release 7.0.06 + + A few new scripts were added: + U+010350..U+01037F Old Permic + U+01F650..U+01F67F Ornamental Dingbats + U+01F780..U+01F7FF Geometrical Shapes Extended + U+01F800..U+01F8FF Supplemental Arrows-C + + Various changes were made to Makefiles, Perl scripts, and one bash + shell script to conform to Debian Policy Manual version 3.9.6. + + Several changes were made to Makefiles: + * Use "set -e" at the start of multi-command shell invocations, + to trap errors. + * Use "&&" rather than ";" in multi-command shell invocations, + to fail on errors. + * install now uses "-s" flag for C program binaries. + + Other minor changes were made to scripts; see ChangeLog + for details. + +2014-10-17: Release 7.0.05 + + Modified ASCII letter 'l' so it would have the same height as + the other lower-case letters with ascenders; this is one pixel + taller than the capital letters. Lowered the horizontal stroke + in 't' by one pixel so it would line up with the horizontal + stroke in 'f'; this is one pixel lower than the x-height of + the ASCII letters. Letters elsewhere in Plane 0 that were formed + with 'k', 'l', or 't' were checked and modified where appropriate + to conform with the new ASCII glyphs. + + Completed the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs script in Plane 1, + and modified Plane 1 Emoticons and Transport and Map Symbols scripts. + + Now create file font/compiled/plane01.html, showing a color-coded + indication of completion of all of Unicode Plane 1 as an HTML + table in a self-contained HTML file. That and the compiled/index.html + are the two HTML files that building the font creates. The plane01.html + file gives a color coding to show completion of each 256-glyph block, + from 0% (pure red) to 100% (pure green). + +2014-10-11: Release 7.0.04 + + Added five more Supplemental Multilingual Plane (Plane 1) scripts + and improved others thanks to several contributors. There are now + over 5,000 drawn assigned glyphs for Plane 1! + + Reorganized font/plane01 directory. Several other changes; see + ChangeLog file for details. + + unihex2sfd and unipagecount now handle all Unicode planes, not just + Plane 0. + + +2014-07-01: Release 7.0.03 + + Minor release for Debian. Added a man page for unihexfill(1); + Debian requires a man page for each program. + +2014-06-22: Release 7.0.02 + + Fixes a bug in font/Makefile: there were two "done" statements at the + end of one "for" loop. Also adds many new Supplemental Multilingual + Plane (Plane 1) scripts. See the ChangeLog file for details. + +2014-06-21: Release 7.0.01 + + Provides a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 7.0 Basic + Mulitlingual Plane. Also adds more scripts in the Unicode 7.0 + Supplemental Multilingual Plane. See the ChangeLog file for full + details. + + Note that the versioning scheme has changed. Instead of a date, this + package will use an incrementing minor version number in the future + ("01", "02", etc.). + +2014-02-14: Release 6.3.20140214 + + This version adds the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 to the "COPYING" + file. + +2014-02-04: Release 6.3.20140204 + + This version added Qianqian Fang's name to the COPYRIGHT string now + passed to Fontforge when the TTF fonts are built, for his contributions + contained in the file "font/plane00/wqy.hex". + + This version also removes "" links to icons on external websites from + the "hangul/hangul-generation.html" web page, which were retrieved and + stored locally when the original web page was saved in the "hangul/" + directory. + +2014-02-02: Release 6.3.20140202 + + This version is the first designed to easily build multiple fonts. + To accomplish this, font/Makefile and font/ttfsrc/Makefile were + modified to pass FONT and COMBINING parameters, giving the names + of the font file and its associated combining.txt file. + + This version introduces a subset of Unicode's Supplemental Multilingual + Plane (SMP, or Plane 1). The file "font/plane01/plane01.hex" contains + a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 5.0 SMP except + "Cuneiform" and "Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation"; those two scripts + require more resolution than what will fit within a 16 by 16 pixel grid. + Andrew Miller drew well over 1,000 glyphs for this effort, and added + glyphs for several SMP scripts introduced after Unicode 5.0. + + This version also introduces a subset of the ConScript Unicode + Registry (CSUR) Private Use Area glyphs. Wojciech Stryjewski created + glyphs for Tengwar and Klingon -- Tolkien fans and Trekkies rejoice! + Paul Hardy drew Cirth to finish the Tolkien set, and drew other scripts. + Andrew Miller made very extensive additions for the CSUR; see the + ChangeLog for details. + + Finally, this version includes a special PSF font for using APL + in console mode on GNU/Linux. This PSF font contains 512 glyphs + as a subset of Unifont; it will not work on systems that only + support PSF fonts with 256 glyphs. This PSF font will support + GNU APL and several other APL implementations. + + The names of the font files are as follows: + + unifont-* Font with Unifont Plane 0 glyphs + + unifont_sample-* Font with Unifont glyphs, with combining + circles added for illustration + + unifont_csur-* Font with glyphs from Unifont plus the + CSUR PUA glyphs + + unifont_upper-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 14 + + unifont_upper_csur-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 15 + + Unifont-APL8x16.psf.gz The APL console font + +Glyphs for code points U+FFFE and U+FFFF, previously added for illustration +purposes in unifont_sample, were removed because they caused problems on +Microsoft Windows XP. These glyphs are still included in the large bitmap +graphic of Unifont but are no longer in the font itself. + +Many other small changes were made as noted in the ChangeLog file, but +support for glyphs beyond Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane is the most +notable change. + 2013-12-21: Release 6.3.2013121 The default font name that hex2bdf creates has changed from