1 2014-10-17: Release 7.0.05
3 Modified ASCII letter 'l' so it would have the same height as
4 the other lower-case letters with ascenders; this is one pixel
5 taller than the capital letters. Lowered the horizontal stroke
6 in 't' by one pixel so it would line up with the horizontal
7 stroke in 'f'; this is one pixel lower than the x-height of
8 the ASCII letters. Letters elsewhere in Plane 0 that were formed
9 with 'k', 'l', or 't' were checked and modified where appropriate
10 to conform with the new ASCII glyphs.
12 Completed the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs script in Plane 1,
13 and modified Plane 1 Emoticons and Transport and Map Symbols scripts.
15 Now create file font/compiled/plane01.html, showing a color-coded
16 indication of completion of all of Unicode Plane 1 as an HTML
17 table in a self-contained HTML file. That and the compiled/index.html
18 are the two HTML files that building the font creates. The plane01.html
19 file gives a color coding to show completion of each 256-glyph block,
20 from 0% (pure red) to 100% (pure green).
22 2014-10-11: Release 7.0.04
24 Added five more Supplemental Multilingual Plane (Plane 1) scripts
25 and improved others thanks to several contributors. There are now
26 over 5,000 drawn assigned glyphs for Plane 1!
28 Reorganized font/plane01 directory. Several other changes; see
29 ChangeLog file for details.
31 unihex2sfd and unipagecount now handle all Unicode planes, not just
35 2014-07-01: Release 7.0.03
37 Minor release for Debian. Added a man page for unihexfill(1);
38 Debian requires a man page for each program.
40 2014-06-22: Release 7.0.02
42 Fixes a bug in font/Makefile: there were two "done" statements at the
43 end of one "for" loop. Also adds many new Supplemental Multilingual
44 Plane (Plane 1) scripts. See the ChangeLog file for details.
46 2014-06-21: Release 7.0.01
48 Provides a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 7.0 Basic
49 Mulitlingual Plane. Also adds more scripts in the Unicode 7.0
50 Supplemental Multilingual Plane. See the ChangeLog file for full
53 Note that the versioning scheme has changed. Instead of a date, this
54 package will use an incrementing minor version number in the future
57 2014-02-14: Release 6.3.20140214
59 This version adds the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 to the "COPYING"
62 2014-02-04: Release 6.3.20140204
64 This version added Qianqian Fang's name to the COPYRIGHT string now
65 passed to Fontforge when the TTF fonts are built, for his contributions
66 contained in the file "font/plane00/wqy.hex".
68 This version also removes "<img>" links to icons on external websites from
69 the "hangul/hangul-generation.html" web page, which were retrieved and
70 stored locally when the original web page was saved in the "hangul/"
73 2014-02-02: Release 6.3.20140202
75 This version is the first designed to easily build multiple fonts.
76 To accomplish this, font/Makefile and font/ttfsrc/Makefile were
77 modified to pass FONT and COMBINING parameters, giving the names
78 of the font file and its associated combining.txt file.
80 This version introduces a subset of Unicode's Supplemental Multilingual
81 Plane (SMP, or Plane 1). The file "font/plane01/plane01.hex" contains
82 a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 5.0 SMP except
83 "Cuneiform" and "Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation"; those two scripts
84 require more resolution than what will fit within a 16 by 16 pixel grid.
85 Andrew Miller drew well over 1,000 glyphs for this effort, and added
86 glyphs for several SMP scripts introduced after Unicode 5.0.
88 This version also introduces a subset of the ConScript Unicode
89 Registry (CSUR) Private Use Area glyphs. Wojciech Stryjewski created
90 glyphs for Tengwar and Klingon -- Tolkien fans and Trekkies rejoice!
91 Paul Hardy drew Cirth to finish the Tolkien set, and drew other scripts.
92 Andrew Miller made very extensive additions for the CSUR; see the
93 ChangeLog for details.
95 Finally, this version includes a special PSF font for using APL
96 in console mode on GNU/Linux. This PSF font contains 512 glyphs
97 as a subset of Unifont; it will not work on systems that only
98 support PSF fonts with 256 glyphs. This PSF font will support
99 GNU APL and several other APL implementations.
101 The names of the font files are as follows:
103 unifont-* Font with Unifont Plane 0 glyphs
105 unifont_sample-* Font with Unifont glyphs, with combining
106 circles added for illustration
108 unifont_csur-* Font with glyphs from Unifont plus the
111 unifont_upper-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 14
113 unifont_upper_csur-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 15
115 Unifont-APL8x16.psf.gz The APL console font
117 Glyphs for code points U+FFFE and U+FFFF, previously added for illustration
118 purposes in unifont_sample, were removed because they caused problems on
119 Microsoft Windows XP. These glyphs are still included in the large bitmap
120 graphic of Unifont but are no longer in the font itself.
122 Many other small changes were made as noted in the ChangeLog file, but
123 support for glyphs beyond Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane is the most
126 2013-12-21: Release 6.3.2013121
128 The default font name that hex2bdf creates has changed from
129 lower-case "unifont" to "Unifont".
131 FontForge's SetFontNames function calls were removed because
132 not all applications correctly interpreted their settings.
133 For example, LibreOffice only listed Unifont by the foundry
134 name ("GNU") rather than foundry + font name ("GNU Unifont")
135 or just the font name. Those calls are only commented out
136 so they could easily be re-introduced.
138 Some glyphs were changed for better appearance with APL.
140 2013-12-17: Release 6.3.20131217
142 This fixes three bugs:
144 * doc/Makefile: removed redirection of texi2pdf output.
145 * font/Makefile: don't modify PCF fonts with FontForge,
146 which alters them so grub-mkfont can't read them.
147 * font/ttfsrc/Makefile: remove *.bdf so unifont_sample.bdf
150 Also includes a few formatting changes; see ChangeLog.
152 2013-12-15: Release 6.3.20131215
154 This version introduces unihex2png and unipng2hex, two Perl scripts
155 that Andrew Miller wrote based upon Paul Hardy's unihex2bmp.c and
156 unibmp2hex.c programs. These new scripts allow conversion between
157 the Unifont .hex format and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files
158 for graphical editing. With this addition, more graphics programs
159 can be used to edit Unifont glyphs.
161 unihex2png and unipng2hex also support glyphs that are 24 or 32
162 pixels tall, in addition to Unifont's default 16 pixels tall.
163 Roman Czyborra's hexdraw and hex2bdf Perl scripts were modified
164 to also support glyphs that are 16, 24, or 32 pixels tall. These
165 changes have not been fully tested, and at this point are considered
168 There are no plans to add this multi-height support to unihex2bmp.c
171 The package now contains a "doc/" directory, with documentation
172 in Texinfo format. Files in the "man/" directory were updated
173 for consistency, especially in noting that all programs are
174 covered under GPLv2+ now.
176 In addition to "unifont-*.*" font files, this package now also creates
177 "unifont_sample-*.*" files. These "Unifont Sample" fonts contain
178 combining circles, and four-digit hexadecimal glyphs for unassigned
179 code points and Private Use Area glyphs. Because of the inclusion
180 of combining cirlces, "Unifont Sample" font versions are only intended
181 for illustrating individual glyphs, not for general-purpose writing.
182 The two generated fonts are unifont_sample-*.bdf and unifont_sample-*.ttf.
183 The TTF file contains SBIT glyphs, not outlined TrueType glyphs like
186 The font versions (BDF, PCF, and TTF) now contain copyright and
187 version information. This will help identify outdated versions
188 of a font in the future. hex2bdf now accepts a version string and
189 a copyright string as command line arguments.
191 To simplify this package supporting two versions of Unifont
192 ("Unifont" and "Unifont Sample"), hex2bdf now accepts a font name
193 as a command line argument. This will streamline adding additional
194 fonts in the future as part of this same package. Note that the
195 old XLFD font name "unifont" has now been capitalized to "Unifont".
197 Many XLFD properties have been added to the BDF version of Unifont
198 in addition to font version and copyright XLFD properties. At least
199 some of these are carried over to the PCF version during conversion
200 with bdftopcf. This has solved an issue with grub-mkfont and FreeType
201 for converting the PCF font into a GRUB version.
203 Some glyphs were redrawn: the Capricorn sign, several CJK Radicals
204 Supplement ideographs, and several Armenian letters. The Armenian
205 letters were modified with the new unihex2png and unipng2hex programs.
207 Further details are in the ChangeLog file.
209 2013-10-20: Release 6.3.20131020
211 This is the first release as part of the GNU Project.