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   1                         Fontconfig
   2         Font configuration and customization library
   3                       Version 2.3.92
   4                          2005-11-04
   5
   6 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
   7 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
   8
   9 2.3.92
  10
  11 Fix corrupted caches bugs from 2.3.91 (reported by Mike Fabian).
  12 Store only basename in the cache, reconstitute on demand
  13 (reported by James Cloos).
  14 Change the rule for artificial emboldening in fonts.conf.in.  This
  15 enables the support for artificial emboldening included in cairo
  16 (patch by Zhe Su).
  17 Add FC_EMBEDDED_BITMAP object type to tell Xft/Cairo whether
  18 to load embedded bitmaps or not (patch by Jinghua Luo).
  19 Fix GCC4 warnings (some by Behdad Esfahbod).
  20 Support localized font family and style names; this has been reported
  21 to break old apps like xfd, but modern (gtk+/qt/mozilla) apps work
  22 fine (patch by Zhe Su).
  23 Prevent fc-list from escaping strings when printing them (reported by
  24 Matthias Clasen).
  25 Add valist sentinel markup for FcObjectSetBuild and
  26 FcPatternBuild (patch by Marcus Meissner).
  27 Add consts to variables so as to move arrays into .rodata (patch by
  28 Ross Burton).
  29 Modify config file to use Greek fonts before Asian fonts with
  30 Greek glyphs. (patch by Simos Xenitellis).
  31 Use libtool -no-undefined flag on all platforms (patch by Christian
  32 Biesinger).
  33
  34 2.3.91
  35
  36 Use libxml2 if requested or if expat not available. (Mathias Hasselmann)
  37 Fix multi-arch cache files: compute the position for the
  38 block to be added using info from OrigFile, not NewFile. (plam)
  39 Cast results of sizeof() to unsigned int to get rid of
  40 warnings on x86_64 (reported by Matthias Clasen).
  41 Use FcAtomic to rewrite cache files; don't unlink the fonts.cache-2
  42 file even if there's no data to write; just write an empty cache file.
  43 (Reported by Lubos Lunak)
  44 Allocate room for the subdirectory names in each directory cache.
  45 (Reported by James Cloos)
  46
  47 2.3.90
  48
  49 Development release of mmap patch: load pattern information
  50 directly from cache files.  (Patrick Lam)
  51
  52 2.3.2
  53
  54 Patch memory leaks in using iconv.  (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
  55 Patch memory leaks in fc-cache. (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
  56 Fetch bitmap glyphs to get widths during font evaluation. (keithp)
  57 Share strings through FcObjectStaticName (Ross Burton)
  58 Windows build updates (Tor Lillqvist)
  59
  60 2.3.1
  61
  62 Be more careful about broken GSUB/GPOS tables (Manish Singh)
  63 Include debian packaging stuff in CVS (Josselin Mouette)
  64 Add more conf.d examples (Keith Packard)
  65 Make manuals build again (Keith Packard)
  66 Johap -> Johab (Funda Wang)
  67
  68 2.3.0
  69
  70 Fix memory leak of patterns rejected by configuration (#2518)
  71
  72 Create prototype /etc/fonts/conf.d directory and populate it with a few
  73 sample files.  These samples are unused as the file names don't start with
  74 numbers.
  75
  76 Update documentation.
  77
  78 2.2.99
  79
  80 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
  81
  82 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
  83
  84 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
  85
  86 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
  87
  88 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
  89
  90 2.2.98
  91
  92 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
  93
  94 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
  95
  96 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
  97
  98 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
  99 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
 100
 101 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
 102
 103 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
 104 (Keith Packard)
 105
 106 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
 107
 108 2.2.97
 109
 110 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
 111 ordered.
 112
 113 Added Punjai orthography.
 114
 115 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now.  Too many problems.
 116
 117 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
 118 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
 119
 120 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory.  Files
 121 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
 122
 123 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
 124
 125 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
 126 function in newer versions of FreeType.
 127
 128 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
 129 files.
 130
 131 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
 132 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
 133
 134 2.2.96
 135
 136 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
 137 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
 138 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
 139
 140 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
 141
 142 2.2.95
 143
 144 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
 145
 146 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
 147 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
 148
 149 2.2.94
 150
 151 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
 152 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
 153
 154 2.2.93
 155
 156 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3.  Significant changes from
 157 2.2.92 are:
 158
 159  o      Use new FreeType #include syntax
 160  o      use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
 161         FreeType changed the semantics.  Still uses height for
 162         older versions of FreeType
 163  o      Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
 164
 165 2.2.92
 166
 167  o      make distcheck work
 168
 169 2.2.91
 170
 171  o      Switch to SGML manuals
 172  o      Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
 173  o      Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
 174
 175 2.2
 176
 177 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
 178 customization library.  Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
 179 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
 180
 181 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
 182 rasterization library on the application.  The X-specific library
 183 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
 184
 185 Keith Packard
 186 keithp@keithp.com