README

   1                         Fontconfig
   2         Font configuration and customization library
   3                       Version 2.3.91
   4                          2005-9-23
   5
   6 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
   7 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
   8
   9 2.3.91
  10
  11 Use libxml2 if requested or if expat not available. (Mathias Hasselmann)
  12 Fix multi-arch cache files: compute the position for the
  13 block to be added using info from OrigFile, not NewFile. (plam)
  14 Cast results of sizeof() to unsigned int to get rid of
  15 warnings on x86_64 (reported by Matthias Clasen).
  16 Use FcAtomic to rewrite cache files; don't unlink the fonts.cache-2
  17 file even if there's no data to write; just write an empty cache file.
  18 (Reported by Lubos Lunak)
  19 Allocate room for the subdirectory names in each directory cache.
  20 (Reported by James Cloos)
  21
  22 2.3.90
  23
  24 Development release of mmap patch: load pattern information
  25 directly from cache files.  (Patrick Lam)
  26
  27 2.3.2
  28
  29 Patch memory leaks in using iconv.  (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
  30 Patch memory leaks in fc-cache. (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
  31 Fetch bitmap glyphs to get widths during font evaluation. (keithp)
  32 Share strings through FcObjectStaticName (Ross Burton)
  33 Windows build updates (Tor Lillqvist)
  34
  35 2.3.1
  36
  37 Be more careful about broken GSUB/GPOS tables (Manish Singh)
  38 Include debian packaging stuff in CVS (Josselin Mouette)
  39 Add more conf.d examples (Keith Packard)
  40 Make manuals build again (Keith Packard)
  41 Johap -> Johab (Funda Wang)
  42
  43 2.3.0
  44
  45 Fix memory leak of patterns rejected by configuration (#2518)
  46
  47 Create prototype /etc/fonts/conf.d directory and populate it with a few
  48 sample files.  These samples are unused as the file names don't start with
  49 numbers.
  50
  51 Update documentation.
  52
  53 2.2.99
  54
  55 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
  56
  57 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
  58
  59 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
  60
  61 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
  62
  63 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
  64
  65 2.2.98
  66
  67 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
  68
  69 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
  70
  71 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
  72
  73 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
  74 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
  75
  76 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
  77
  78 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
  79 (Keith Packard)
  80
  81 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
  82
  83 2.2.97
  84
  85 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
  86 ordered.
  87
  88 Added Punjai orthography.
  89
  90 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now.  Too many problems.
  91
  92 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
  93 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
  94
  95 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory.  Files
  96 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
  97
  98 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
  99
 100 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
 101 function in newer versions of FreeType.
 102
 103 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
 104 files.
 105
 106 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
 107 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
 108
 109 2.2.96
 110
 111 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
 112 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
 113 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
 114
 115 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
 116
 117 2.2.95
 118
 119 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
 120
 121 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
 122 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
 123
 124 2.2.94
 125
 126 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
 127 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
 128
 129 2.2.93
 130
 131 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3.  Significant changes from
 132 2.2.92 are:
 133
 134  o      Use new FreeType #include syntax
 135  o      use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
 136         FreeType changed the semantics.  Still uses height for
 137         older versions of FreeType
 138  o      Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
 139
 140 2.2.92
 141
 142  o      make distcheck work
 143
 144 2.2.91
 145
 146  o      Switch to SGML manuals
 147  o      Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
 148  o      Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
 149
 150 2.2
 151
 152 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
 153 customization library.  Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
 154 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
 155
 156 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
 157 rasterization library on the application.  The X-specific library
 158 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
 159
 160 Keith Packard
 161 keithp@keithp.com