1 Changes in FIGlet 2.2.5
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4 FIGlet 2.2.5 is a revision of FIGlet 2.2.4 containing updated andproperly
5 licensed ISO8859 map files. The full list of changes is:
7 o Add regression tests for uskata and jis0201 control files
9 o Properly escape minus signs in figlist(6) man page (Jonathan
12 o Fix chkfont coredump on invalid input (Kenneth Davies and
15 o Update ISO8859 map files to fix licensing issue raised in Debian
16 bugs 673096 and 674844
18 o Re-add missing figmagic and getopt.c files which were left out
19 of releases 2.2.3 and 2.2.4
21 o Fix output of test script in MacOS X
23 These changes were made by Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com>
26 Changes in FIGlet 2.2.4
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29 FIGlet 2.2.4 is a revision of FIGlet 2.2.3 featuring bugfixes and support
30 to tlf2 fonts. The full list of changes is:
32 o Add support to Sam Hocevar's TOIlet TLF fonts containing UTF-8
33 encoded Unicode characters.
35 o Add infocode 5 to list supported font formats
37 o Fix rendering error caused by the previous attempt to fix invalid
38 memory accesses when smushing at start of line
40 o New environment variable FIGLET_FONTDIR can be used to specify
41 the path to search for fonts
43 o Add regression tests
45 These changes were made by Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com>
48 Changes in FIGlet 2.2.3
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51 FIGlet 2.2.3 is a revision of FIGlet 2.2.2 featuring minor bugfixes and
52 important licensing changes in the zipio files. The full list of
55 o License changed from "Academic Free License" to "New BSD License"
56 (3-clause) as agreed by FIGlet authors
58 o New JIS X 0201 control file (Micah Cowan)
60 o Fix behavior of JIS0201 SHIFT-OUT and SHIFT-IN that were previouly
61 inverted (Micah Cowan)
63 o Fix memory violation when smushing at line start
65 o Fix handling of memory allocation errors
67 o Relicense Ed Hamrick zipio under the MIT license. This should
68 eliminate any concerns about redistribution of FIGlet as libre
71 o Update Makefile to meet modern standards in variable naming, using
72 BINDIR as the pathname for binary files and reservind DESTDIR
73 as the extra prefix commonly used in package building.
75 o Add a Turbo C makefile, just because I had the compiler. (this
76 also tests portability to old compilers and foreign platforms)
78 o Add Jonathon Abbott's man pages for figlist, showfigfonts and
79 chkfont originally contributed to the Debian Project
81 These changes were made by Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com>
84 Changes in FIGlet 2.2.2
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87 License changed from "Artistic License" to "Academic Free
88 License" as agreed by FIGlet authors. 05 July 2005
90 Changes in FIGlet 2.2.1
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93 FIGlet 2.2.1 is a minor revision of FIGlet 2.2. The files
94 README, Makefile, figfont.txt, figlet.c and figlet.6 have been
95 changed to reflect changes in documentation, official contact
96 details etc. FTP-NOTE merged into README. FAQ and CHANGES
97 added to the distribution.
99 All other files are identical with the 2.2 release.
101 These changes were made by Christiaan Keet <keet@plig.net>
103 Changes in FIGlet 2.2
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106 FIGlet 2.2 is a moderate revision of FIGlet 2.1.2. The new features are:
108 o font files and control files can be compressed using ``zip'', and
109 will be automatically decompressed
111 o new commands in controlfiles provide support for
112 single-byte (default), double-byte, HZ, Shift-JIS, and Unicode
113 UTF-8 encodings of the input
115 o ISO 2022 escape sequences are decoded and interpreted
117 o control files can now have the format of Unicode Consortium
118 mapping tables (two columns of numbers representing
119 input character and output character, no ranges, # comments)
121 o new options -s (smush, same as -m-2), -k (kern, same as -m0),
122 -S (forced smushing), and -W (full width, same as -m-1) make
123 -m option unnecessary except for font designers. The -S option
124 works even if the font's smushmode is 0 or -1, in which case
125 the smushmode is read from a new parameter in the
126 font's first line, or does universal overlapping if no such parameter
129 o universal smushing (-o option to force it, but -S will use it
130 if no smush rules are available) makes FIGcharacters overlap by
131 one place independent of how they are constructed
132 more fonts smushable.
134 o file "figmagic" can be appended to your system magic number
135 file to make the "file" command recognize FIGlet files
137 o file "figfont.txt" is an implementation-independent specification
138 for FIGlet fonts and control files
140 o integrated support for extended characters (extended Latin in
141 "standard", Greek in "big", katakana in "banner", Hebrew in new
142 "ivrit" fonts) with appropriate controlfiles
144 o smushing rule 16 has changed slightly: "/\" now smushes
145 into "|" and "\/" smushes into "Y"; "><" still smushes
146 into "X" and "<>" is still not smushed at all.
148 o -A option introduced in FIGlet 2.1.2 is now optional;
149 if any words appear on the command line after the options,
150 they are formatted, and the standard input is not read.
152 These changes were made by John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>.
154 Changes in FIGlet 2.1.2
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157 FIGlet 2.1.2 is a minor revision of FIGlet 2.1.1. The files
158 README, FTP-NOTE, figlet.c and figlet.6 have been changed. All other
159 files are identical with the 2.1.1 release.
161 o The only new option is -A, which causes FIGlet to read input
162 from the command line.
164 These changes were made by Gilbert Healton <ghealton@nmia.com> as Glenn
165 Chappell is now busy as a new professor of Mathematics.
167 Changes in FIGlet 2.1
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170 A number of minor bugs and major incompatibility problems have been
171 fixed. FIGlet 2.1 should compile correctly on many operating systems for
172 which FIGlet 2.0 did not.
174 o The "-F" command line option, which used to list all the available
175 fonts, has been removed, since it made FIGlet incompatible with some
176 operating systems. It has been replaced by the "figlist" script. The
177 "showfigfonts" script has been updated so that it no longer requires
178 the "-F" option to be available.
180 o The FIGlet font file format has been extended to allow an arbitrarily
181 large number of characters. The ISO Latin-1 character set, which
182 includes many accented letters and special symbols, has been added to
185 o FIGlet can now print right-to-left. This can be specified on the
186 command line ("-R") or in the font file. Thus, for example, Hebrew and
187 Arabic fonts can be handled more easily.
189 o FIGlet can now right justify its output. This is the default when
190 right-to-left printing is selected. It can also be specified on the
193 o FIGlet now supports "control files". These can be used to change which
194 character FIGlet will print when it sees a certain input character --
195 sort of an expanded version of the "-D" option. For example, a control
196 file could convert lower-case letters to upper-case or map certain
197 ASCII characters to accented letters. Control file names end with the
198 suffix ".flc". Select a control file by using "-C controlfile" on the
199 command line. Several controlfiles can be used at once by giving
200 muliple "-C" options.
202 o There is now a way for programs that use FIGlet to get various
203 information from FIGlet, for example, what version of FIGlet is being
204 used or the name of the default font directory. This information is
205 gotten through the "-I" option. See the man page for details.