-Subject: Unifont archive version 6.3.20131020
+Subject: Unifont package version 6.3.20131215
OVERVIEW
Roman Czyborra. This archive contains the following directories
and files:
+ ChangeLog Log of changes made to each GNU release
+ COPYING Full text of GPL version 2
+ doc Documentation in Texinfo format
font Everything you need to build the font from scratch
hangul Standalone font sources to build hangul-syllables.hex
+ INSTALL Instructions for font and software installation
Makefile The "make" file
man Unix man pages
+ NEWS Summary of what's new with each GNU release
README This file
src Source programs, in Perl and C
- TUTORIAL Tutorial for using this package's utilities
The "font/precompiled" directory contains prebuilt font-related files:
- coverage.txt Percentage coverage of each Plane 0 script
- unifont-<version>.bmp The entire Plane 0 font with combining circles
- unifont-<version>.bdf.gz BDF version of Unifont
- unifont-<version>.hex Hex string source of glyphs to build Unifont
- unifontall-<version>.hex Hex string source of all Plane 0 glyphs,
- including nonprinting and PUA glyphs
- unifont-<version>.pcf.gz PCF version of Unifont
- unifont-<version>.ttf TrueType version of Unifont
+ coverage.txt Percentage coverage of each Plane 0 script
-The original version of this README file was written by David Starner
-and modified by Paul Hardy from 2008 to the present.
+ unifont-<version>.hex Hex string source of glyphs to build Unifont
+ unifont-<version>.bdf.gz BDF version of Unifont
+ unifont-<version>.pcf.gz PCF version of Unifont
+ unifont-<version>.ttf TrueType version of Unifont
+
+ unifont_sample-<version>.hex Hex string source of all Plane 0 glyphs,
+ including nonprinting and PUA glyphs, with
+ combining circles
+ unifont_sample-<version>.bdf.gz BDF font version of the above .hex file
+ unifont_sample-<version>.ttf SBIT font version of the above .hex file
+
+ unifont-<version>.bmp The entire Plane 0 font with combining circles,
+ actually built from unifont_sample-*.hex to
+ show combining circles
This release incorporates all glyph errata issued by The Unicode Consortium
from Unicode 1.0 errata to the latest.
BUILDING
--------
-To make the binaries from the top directory, type
-
- make
-
-This will create the directories "./bin", "./lib", and "./font/compiled".
-
-The compiled programs will be in the "./bin" directory. The ./lib
-directory will contain the file wcwidth.c, to provide an implementation
-of the POSIX wcwidth() and wcswidth() functions. The font will build,
-placing files in the "font/compiled/" subdirectory.
-
-The default settings will build Unifont with four-digit hexadecimal
-glyphs appearing for unassigned code points, and with no glyphs for
-Private Use Area code points or non-printing code points. As an
-example, to override these defaults in this top-level directory type
-
- make UNASSIGNED="" PUA="hexsrc/pua.hex" \
- NONPRINTING="hexsrc/nonprinting.hex"
-
-To make certain that no unassigned, PUA, or non-printing glyphs are
-included, type
-
- make UNASSIGNED="" PUA="" NONPRINTING=""
-
-You can similarly build Unifont with your own custom PUA glyphs.
-Just specify where the custom PUA file is, relative to the "font/"
-directory. Note, though, that unifontpic generates its glyph
-diagram from whatever .hex files are in the "font/hexsrc" directory.
-Therefore, to have custom PUA glyphs be part of this generated
-glyph map, replace "font/hexsrc/pua.hex" with a custom pua.hex file.
-
-Other useful make variables that can be overridden on the command line
-from the top-level Makefile include:
-
- DESTDIR - By default, not set; set to an alternate root location
- such as "~/tmproot" if desired, but this directory
- must already exist.
- USRDIR - Set as typically "usr" or "usr/local" for installation
- PREFIX - This is just $(DESTDIR)/$(USRDIR) but can be overridden.
- PKGDEST - Destination for package files, by default "usr/share"
- so that this README file, the TUTORIAL file, etc. will
- be installed in "/usr/share/unifont".
- COMPRESS - Set to non-zero to compress installed man pages
-
-All of the .hex file names can be replaced selectively on the top-level
-"make" command line. The list of component hex file variables is:
-
- UNIFONTBASE - The bulk of Unifont scripts
- CJK - Most of the CJK Ideographs
- HANGUL - Hangul Syllables block
- NONPRINTING - Glyphs for non-printing characters
- SPACES - Space glyphs, single- and double-width
- UNASSIGNED - Glyphs for unassigned code points
- PUA - Glyphs for the Private Use Area
-
-To install the binaries, man pages, and Unifont, review the
-destination directories in the Makefiles to verify that the files
-will be installed where you want, and then type
-
- make install
-
-This installs programs in "/usr/bin" or "/usr/local/bin" (depending
-on the USRDIR setting in the top-level Makefile), installs PCF and
-TrueType fonts in the appropriate places, and places the following
-files in "/usr/share/unifont" or "/usr/local/share/unifont" (again
-depending on the USRDIR setting in the top-level Makefile):
-
- combining.txt - list of Unicode Plane 0 combining characters
- LICENSE.gz - license information for this package
- README.gz - this README file
- TUTORIAL.gz - tutorial on using the Unifont utilities
- unifont.hex - composite Unifont .hex source, used by GRUB1
- wchardata.c - implementation of IEEE 1003.1-2008 wcswidth(), wcwidth()
- wchardata.o - object file from wchardata.c
-
-Typing "make install" will install font files from "font/compiled/"
-if that directory exists; otherwise it will install font files from
-the "font/precompiled/" directory.
-
-To rebuild what is in the "font/precompiled" directory (which you
-ordinarily you should never do--there would have to be a very good
-reason), remove its files, modify the DATE and VERSION information in
-the top-level Makefile and in "font/Makefile", then type
-
- make precompiled
-
-from the top-level directory or the "font/" subdirectory.
-
-To just make the fonts, charts, etc. within the "font" directory,
-install the "bdftopcf" program and FontForge as well as performing
-a "make install" to install the Unifont binaries. Then from the
-top-level directory type
-
- cd font
- make
-
-The resulting fonts will be in the "./font/compiled" directory, along
-with bitmap renderings of each glyph.
-
-WARNING: Building the TrueType version of GNU Unifont will require
-anywhere from 256 MBytes to 1 GByte of virtual memory, can require
-almost 250 Megabytes of free disk space during the build, and is best
-run on a decent processor (say 1 GHz clock rate or better).
-
-During the TrueType build, FontForge will monopolize your CPU...plan
-accordingly.
-
-There is no reason to build the font from scratch unless you modify
-the .hex font source files (or must satisfy an insatiable curiosity),
-because the "./font/precompiled" directory already contains pre-built
-BDF, PCF, and TrueType fonts.
-
-To create a custom version of the font with combining circles (such as
-was done to create the large picture of Unifont), enter these commands:
-
- cd font/ttfsrc
- sort ../hexsrc/*.hex | \
- unigencircles combining.txt ../hexsrc/nonprinting.hex > unifont.hex
- make
-
-When "make" is finished, the ttfsrc directory will contain a "unifont.ttf"
-file which includes the dashed combining circles that the unigencircles
-utility added. Copy this "unifont.ttf" file to a safe location in a different
-directory with a more descriptive name. This font is named "unifontcircles"
-in the font distribution. Then type
-
- make clean
-
-If you've made a new version of the font, hand-copy the new font file(s)
-to your desired destination. Otherwise, precompiled PCF and TrueType
-versions of the font will be copied from "./font/precompiled/" into
-$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/fonts.
-
-After font installation, you might need to restart the X Window System
-for the new fonts to be recognized, but first try the command
-
- xset fp rehash
-
-in a shell (terminal) window. If that doesn't work, restart the X
-Window System.
-
-To remove intermediate files, from the top-level directory type
-
- make clean
-
-To remove all created files and leave the directory in its pre-build
-state, from the top-level directory type
-
- make distclean
-
-That will remove the "./bin" directory, the "./lib" directory, the
-"./font/compiled" directory, and other intermediate files. Note that
-this command leaves the files in "./font/precompiled" intact, even
-though a prior "make precompiled" command would have rebuilt those files.
+See the "INSTALL" file in this directory for building instructions.
src/ AUTHORS
------------
-Right now, all the Perl files in the src directory except "hex2sfd",
-"unifontchojung", and "unifontksx" were written by Roman Czyborra (or
-in the case of johab2ucs2, by Jungshik Shin, who then gave it to Roman).
-Roman originally named the "src/hexbraille" script as simply "braille";
+Roman Czyborra wrote all the Perl files in the src directory except
+"hex2sfd", "unifontchojung", "unifontksx", "unihex2png", and "unipng2hex".
+In the case of "johab2ucs2", Jungshik Shin wrote the orignial version;
+he then gave it to Roman. Paul Hardy made further changes to "johab2ucs2".
+
+Roman originally named the "src/hexbraille" script as simply "braille".
Paul Hardy thought there was too great a chance of a name conflict with
other utilities, and so renamed it.
script, as well as a "howto-build.sh" shell script that Paul Hardy
converted into "./font/ttfsrc/Makefile".
-All the C programs were written by Paul Hardy.
+Paul Hardy wrote "unifontchojung" and "unifontksx" for extracting subsets
+of Hangul glyphs, as an aid in creating a new Hangul Syllables block.
+
+Andrew Miller wrote "unihex2png" and "unipng2hex" based upon Paul
+Hardy's "unihex2bmp" and "unibmp2hex" programs.
+
+Paul Hardy wrote all the C programs.
Unifont AUTHORS
Qianqian Fang began his Wen Quan Yi font in 2004, by which
time work on Unifont had stopped. Most of the almost 30,000
-CJK ideographs in the latest Unifont versions 5.1 and later
-were taken from Wen Quan Yi with permission of Qianqian Fang.
-The glyphs in "./font/hexsrc/wqy-cjk.hex" are for the most part
-Qianqian Fang's Unibit and Wen Quan Yi glyphs.
+CJK ideographs in Unifont versions 5.1 and later were taken
+from Wen Quan Yi with permission of Qianqian Fang. The glyphs
+in "./font/hexsrc/wqy-cjk.hex" are for the most part Qianqian
+Fang's Unibit and Wen Quan Yi glyphs.
Paul Hardy drew most of the newly-drawn glyphs added to the BMP
from the Unifont 5.1 release to the present release. This includes
the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
or (at your option) a later version.
+GPL version 2 is contained in the "COPYING" file in the main source
+directory for this package. If your received this source without
+a copy of GPL version 2, you can download a copy from GNU's website
+at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.
+
The license for the compiled fonts is covered by the above GPL terms
with the GNU font embedding exception, as follows:
Unicode 1.1: U+717F, U+773E, U+809C, U+8480, U+908E
-Three new utility programs have also been added:
-
- - unifontpic - creates a bitmapped graphics (.bmp) file of the entire
- Basic Multilingual Plane (Plane 0), by default in a 256-by-256
- glyph grid for ease of printing, and optionally in a 16-by-4096 glyph
- grid for easier scrolling on a screen, for software that can handle
- a .bmp file with over 64k pixel rows (not all software can). The
- 256-by-256 glyph grid can be scaled to print on a piece of paper
- approximately 3 feet by 3 feet (or one meter by one meter).
+Andrew Miller drew the 5 new additions to the Unicode 6.3.0 Basic
+Multilingual Plane in the initial Unifont 6.3 release.
- - unigencircles - adds dashed combining circles to unifont.hex glyphs
- for code points that are in "font/ttfsrc/combining.txt" but not in
- "font/hexsrc/nonprinting.hex".
+The latest Unifont 6.3 release includes these glyph changes by Paul Hardy:
- - unigenwidth - creates an implementation of the POSIX functions
- wcwidth() and wcswidth() as specified in IEEE 1003.1-2008, Vol. 2:
- System Interfaces, Issue 7, pages 2251 and 2241, respectively.
- Plane 0 widths are determined by reading the current Unifont glyphs.
- All higher planes, 0x01 through 0x10, are calculated without regard
- to Unifont glyphs. This can be modified in the future if Unifont
- glyphs extend beyond Plane 0.
+ - Armenian -- several glyphs were redrawn based upon feedback from
+ native speakers (U+0530..U+058F).
-Andrew Miller drew the 5 new additions to the Unicode 6.3.0 Basic
-Multilingual Plane in the initial Unifont 6.3 release.
+ - CJK Radicals Supplement -- several glyphs were redrawn to better match
+ their representations in The Unicode Standard code charts:
+ U+2E9F, U+2EA9, U+2EAC, U+2EAE, U+2EC0, U+2EDE, U+2EE7, and U+2EED.
-Paul Hardy made the following improvements for the latest Unifont 6.3
-release:
+ - Capricorn sign (U+2651) -- this was redrawn to an alternate form that
+ better fit in an 8 by 16 pixel grid.
- Dashes -- changed to distguish better between different dash types
(a two horizontal pixel difference is the minimum to easily distinguish
- hangul/ directory -- updated "hangul-generation.html" to match the
latest version at http://unifoundry.com/hangul/hangul-generation.html
+Five new utility programs have also been added:
+
+ - unifontpic - creates a bitmapped graphics (.bmp) file of the entire
+ Basic Multilingual Plane (Plane 0), by default in a 256-by-256
+ glyph grid for ease of printing, and optionally in a 16-by-4096 glyph
+ grid for easier scrolling on a screen, for software that can handle
+ a .bmp file with over 64k pixel rows (not all software can). The
+ 256-by-256 glyph grid can be scaled to print on a piece of paper
+ approximately 3 feet by 3 feet (or one meter by one meter). Written
+ by Paul Hardy.
+
+ - unigencircles - adds dashed combining circles to unifont.hex glyphs
+ for code points that are in "font/ttfsrc/combining.txt" but not in
+ "font/hexsrc/nonprinting.hex". Written by Paul Hardy.
+
+ - unigenwidth - creates an implementation of the POSIX functions
+ wcwidth() and wcswidth() as specified in IEEE 1003.1-2008, Vol. 2:
+ System Interfaces, Issue 7, pages 2251 and 2241, respectively.
+ Plane 0 widths are determined by reading the current Unifont glyphs.
+ All higher planes, 0x01 through 0x10, are calculated without regard
+ to Unifont glyphs. This can be modified in the future if Unifont
+ glyphs extend beyond Plane 0. Written by Paul Hardy.
+
+ - unihex2png - converts a unifont.hex-format file into a Portable
+ Network Graphics (PNG) file for editing with a wider rane of graphics
+ editors than the original unihex2bmp allowed. Written by Andrew
+ Miller, based upon the unihex2bmp source code. Introduced in
+ Version 6.3.20131215.
+
+ - unipng2hex - converts a PNG graphics file created by unihex2png
+ back into a unifont.hex-format file. Written by Andrew Miller,
+ based upon the unibmp2hex source code. Introduced in Version
+ 6.3.20131215.
+
+The last two program additions, unihex2png and unipng2hex, also support
+glyph heights of 24 and 32 pixels in addition to Unifont's original
+height of 16 pixels. hex2bdf and hexdraw have also been modified to
+support these alternate glyph heights. This capability has not been
+tested extensively, and for now is considered experimental.
+
CHANGES IN VERSION 6.2
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