1 2014-02-04: Release 6.3.20140204
3 This version added Qianqian Fang's name to the COPYRIGHT string now
4 passed to Fontforge when the TTF fonts are built, for his contributions
5 contained in the file "font/plane00/wqy.hex".
7 This version also removes "<img>" links to icons on external websites from
8 the "hangul/hangul-generation.html" web page, which were retrieved and
9 stored locally when the original web page was saved in the "hangul/"
12 2014-02-02: Release 6.3.20140202
14 This version is the first designed to easily build multiple fonts.
15 To accomplish this, font/Makefile and font/ttfsrc/Makefile were
16 modified to pass FONT and COMBINING parameters, giving the names
17 of the font file and its associated combining.txt file.
19 This version introduces a subset of Unicode's Supplemental Multilingual
20 Plane (SMP, or Plane 1). The file "font/plane01/plane01.hex" contains
21 a glyph for every visible code point in the Unicode 5.0 SMP except
22 "Cuneiform" and "Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation"; those two scripts
23 require more resolution than what will fit within a 16 by 16 pixel grid.
24 Andrew Miller drew well over 1,000 glyphs for this effort, and added
25 glyphs for several SMP scripts introduced after Unicode 5.0.
27 This version also introduces a subset of the ConScript Unicode
28 Registry (CSUR) Private Use Area glyphs. Wojciech Stryjewski created
29 glyphs for Tengwar and Klingon -- Tolkien fans and Trekkies rejoice!
30 Paul Hardy drew Cirth to finish the Tolkien set, and drew other scripts.
31 Andrew Miller made very extensive additions for the CSUR; see the
32 ChangeLog for details.
34 Finally, this version includes a special PSF font for using APL
35 in console mode on GNU/Linux. This PSF font contains 512 glyphs
36 as a subset of Unifont; it will not work on systems that only
37 support PSF fonts with 256 glyphs. This PSF font will support
38 GNU APL and several other APL implementations.
40 The names of the font files are as follows:
42 unifont-* Font with Unifont Plane 0 glyphs
44 unifont_sample-* Font with Unifont glyphs, with combining
45 circles added for illustration
47 unifont_csur-* Font with glyphs from Unifont plus the
50 unifont_upper-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 14
52 unifont_upper_csur-* Font with glyphs from Planes 1 through 15
54 Unifont-APL8x16.psf.gz The APL console font
56 Glyphs for code points U+FFFE and U+FFFF, previously added for illustration
57 purposes in unifont_sample, were removed because they caused problems on
58 Microsoft Windows XP. These glyphs are still included in the large bitmap
59 graphic of Unifont but are no longer in the font itself.
61 Many other small changes were made as noted in the ChangeLog file, but
62 support for glyphs beyond Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane is the most
65 2013-12-21: Release 6.3.2013121
67 The default font name that hex2bdf creates has changed from
68 lower-case "unifont" to "Unifont".
70 FontForge's SetFontNames function calls were removed because
71 not all applications correctly interpreted their settings.
72 For example, LibreOffice only listed Unifont by the foundry
73 name ("GNU") rather than foundry + font name ("GNU Unifont")
74 or just the font name. Those calls are only commented out
75 so they could easily be re-introduced.
77 Some glyphs were changed for better appearance with APL.
79 2013-12-17: Release 6.3.20131217
81 This fixes three bugs:
83 * doc/Makefile: removed redirection of texi2pdf output.
84 * font/Makefile: don't modify PCF fonts with FontForge,
85 which alters them so grub-mkfont can't read them.
86 * font/ttfsrc/Makefile: remove *.bdf so unifont_sample.bdf
89 Also includes a few formatting changes; see ChangeLog.
91 2013-12-15: Release 6.3.20131215
93 This version introduces unihex2png and unipng2hex, two Perl scripts
94 that Andrew Miller wrote based upon Paul Hardy's unihex2bmp.c and
95 unibmp2hex.c programs. These new scripts allow conversion between
96 the Unifont .hex format and Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files
97 for graphical editing. With this addition, more graphics programs
98 can be used to edit Unifont glyphs.
100 unihex2png and unipng2hex also support glyphs that are 24 or 32
101 pixels tall, in addition to Unifont's default 16 pixels tall.
102 Roman Czyborra's hexdraw and hex2bdf Perl scripts were modified
103 to also support glyphs that are 16, 24, or 32 pixels tall. These
104 changes have not been fully tested, and at this point are considered
107 There are no plans to add this multi-height support to unihex2bmp.c
110 The package now contains a "doc/" directory, with documentation
111 in Texinfo format. Files in the "man/" directory were updated
112 for consistency, especially in noting that all programs are
113 covered under GPLv2+ now.
115 In addition to "unifont-*.*" font files, this package now also creates
116 "unifont_sample-*.*" files. These "Unifont Sample" fonts contain
117 combining circles, and four-digit hexadecimal glyphs for unassigned
118 code points and Private Use Area glyphs. Because of the inclusion
119 of combining cirlces, "Unifont Sample" font versions are only intended
120 for illustrating individual glyphs, not for general-purpose writing.
121 The two generated fonts are unifont_sample-*.bdf and unifont_sample-*.ttf.
122 The TTF file contains SBIT glyphs, not outlined TrueType glyphs like
125 The font versions (BDF, PCF, and TTF) now contain copyright and
126 version information. This will help identify outdated versions
127 of a font in the future. hex2bdf now accepts a version string and
128 a copyright string as command line arguments.
130 To simplify this package supporting two versions of Unifont
131 ("Unifont" and "Unifont Sample"), hex2bdf now accepts a font name
132 as a command line argument. This will streamline adding additional
133 fonts in the future as part of this same package. Note that the
134 old XLFD font name "unifont" has now been capitalized to "Unifont".
136 Many XLFD properties have been added to the BDF version of Unifont
137 in addition to font version and copyright XLFD properties. At least
138 some of these are carried over to the PCF version during conversion
139 with bdftopcf. This has solved an issue with grub-mkfont and FreeType
140 for converting the PCF font into a GRUB version.
142 Some glyphs were redrawn: the Capricorn sign, several CJK Radicals
143 Supplement ideographs, and several Armenian letters. The Armenian
144 letters were modified with the new unihex2png and unipng2hex programs.
146 Further details are in the ChangeLog file.
148 2013-10-20: Release 6.3.20131020
150 This is the first release as part of the GNU Project.