README

   1                         Fontconfig
   2         Font configuration and customization library
   3                       Version 2.2.98
   4                         2004-12-29
   5
   6 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
   7 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
   8
   9 2.2.98
  10
  11 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
  12
  13 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
  14
  15 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
  16
  17 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
  18 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
  19
  20 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
  21
  22 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
  23 (Keith Packard)
  24
  25 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
  26
  27 2.2.97
  28
  29 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
  30 ordered.
  31
  32 Added Punjai orthography.
  33
  34 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now.  Too many problems.
  35
  36 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
  37 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
  38
  39 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory.  Files
  40 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
  41
  42 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
  43
  44 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
  45 function in newer versions of FreeType.
  46
  47 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
  48 files.
  49
  50 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
  51 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
  52
  53 2.2.96
  54
  55 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
  56 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
  57 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
  58
  59 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
  60
  61 2.2.95
  62
  63 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
  64
  65 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
  66 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
  67
  68 2.2.94
  69
  70 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
  71 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
  72
  73 2.2.93
  74
  75 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3.  Significant changes from
  76 2.2.92 are:
  77
  78  o      Use new FreeType #include syntax
  79  o      use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
  80         FreeType changed the semantics.  Still uses height for
  81         older versions of FreeType
  82  o      Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
  83
  84 2.2.92
  85
  86  o      make distcheck work
  87
  88 2.2.91
  89
  90  o      Switch to SGML manuals
  91  o      Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
  92  o      Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
  93
  94 2.2
  95
  96 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
  97 customization library.  Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
  98 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
  99
 100 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
 101 rasterization library on the application.  The X-specific library
 102 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
 103
 104 Keith Packard
 105 keithp@keithp.com