README

   1                         Fontconfig
   2         Font configuration and customization library
   3                       Version 2.3.1
   4                          2005-3-8
   5
   6 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
   7 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
   8
   9 2.3.1
  10
  11 Be more careful about broken GSUB/GPOS tables (Manish Singh)
  12 Include debian packaging stuff in CVS (Josselin Mouette)
  13 Add more conf.d examples (Keith Packard)
  14 Make manuals build again (Keith Packard)
  15 Johap -> Johab (Funda Wang)
  16
  17 2.3.0
  18
  19 Fix memory leak of patterns rejected by configuration (#2518)
  20
  21 Create prototype /etc/fonts/conf.d directory and populate it with a few
  22 sample files.  These samples are unused as the file names don't start with
  23 numbers.
  24
  25 Update documentation.
  26
  27 2.2.99
  28
  29 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
  30
  31 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
  32
  33 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
  34
  35 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
  36
  37 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
  38
  39 2.2.98
  40
  41 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
  42
  43 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
  44
  45 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
  46
  47 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
  48 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
  49
  50 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
  51
  52 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
  53 (Keith Packard)
  54
  55 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
  56
  57 2.2.97
  58
  59 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
  60 ordered.
  61
  62 Added Punjai orthography.
  63
  64 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now.  Too many problems.
  65
  66 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
  67 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
  68
  69 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory.  Files
  70 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
  71
  72 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
  73
  74 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
  75 function in newer versions of FreeType.
  76
  77 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
  78 files.
  79
  80 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
  81 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
  82
  83 2.2.96
  84
  85 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
  86 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
  87 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
  88
  89 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
  90
  91 2.2.95
  92
  93 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
  94
  95 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
  96 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
  97
  98 2.2.94
  99
 100 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
 101 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
 102
 103 2.2.93
 104
 105 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3.  Significant changes from
 106 2.2.92 are:
 107
 108  o      Use new FreeType #include syntax
 109  o      use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
 110         FreeType changed the semantics.  Still uses height for
 111         older versions of FreeType
 112  o      Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
 113
 114 2.2.92
 115
 116  o      make distcheck work
 117
 118 2.2.91
 119
 120  o      Switch to SGML manuals
 121  o      Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
 122  o      Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
 123
 124 2.2
 125
 126 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
 127 customization library.  Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
 128 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
 129
 130 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
 131 rasterization library on the application.  The X-specific library
 132 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
 133
 134 Keith Packard
 135 keithp@keithp.com