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   1                         Fontconfig
   2         Font configuration and customization library
   3                       Version 2.2.99
   4                          2005-1-28
   5
   6 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
   7 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
   8
   9 2.2.99
  10
  11 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
  12
  13 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
  14
  15 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
  16
  17 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
  18
  19 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
  20
  21 2.2.98
  22
  23 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
  24
  25 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
  26
  27 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
  28
  29 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
  30 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
  31
  32 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
  33
  34 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
  35 (Keith Packard)
  36
  37 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
  38
  39 2.2.97
  40
  41 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
  42 ordered.
  43
  44 Added Punjai orthography.
  45
  46 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now.  Too many problems.
  47
  48 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
  49 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
  50
  51 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory.  Files
  52 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
  53
  54 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
  55
  56 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
  57 function in newer versions of FreeType.
  58
  59 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
  60 files.
  61
  62 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
  63 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
  64
  65 2.2.96
  66
  67 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
  68 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
  69 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
  70
  71 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
  72
  73 2.2.95
  74
  75 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
  76
  77 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
  78 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
  79
  80 2.2.94
  81
  82 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
  83 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
  84
  85 2.2.93
  86
  87 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3.  Significant changes from
  88 2.2.92 are:
  89
  90  o      Use new FreeType #include syntax
  91  o      use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
  92         FreeType changed the semantics.  Still uses height for
  93         older versions of FreeType
  94  o      Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
  95
  96 2.2.92
  97
  98  o      make distcheck work
  99
 100 2.2.91
 101
 102  o      Switch to SGML manuals
 103  o      Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
 104  o      Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
 105
 106 2.2
 107
 108 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
 109 customization library.  Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
 110 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
 111
 112 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
 113 rasterization library on the application.  The X-specific library
 114 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
 115
 116 Keith Packard
 117 keithp@keithp.com