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authorJonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@gmail.com>2012-05-08 14:48:01 +0100
committerJonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@gmail.com>2012-05-08 14:48:01 +0100
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+Changes in FIGlet 2.2.2
+-----------------------
+
+License changed from "Artistic License" to "Academic Free
+License" as agreed by FIGlet authors. 05 July 2005
+
+Changes in FIGlet 2.2.1
+-----------------------
+
+FIGlet 2.2.1 is a minor revision of FIGlet 2.2. The files
+README, Makefile, figfont.txt, figlet.c and figlet.6 have been
+changed to reflect changes in documentation, official contact
+details etc. FTP-NOTE merged into README. FAQ and CHANGES
+added to the distribution.
+
+All other files are identical with the 2.2 release.
+
+These changes were made by Christiaan Keet <keet@plig.net>
+
+Changes in FIGlet 2.2
+---------------------
+
+FIGlet 2.2 is a moderate revision of FIGlet 2.1.2. The new features are:
+
+o font files and control files can be compressed using ``zip'', and
+ will be automatically decompressed
+
+o new commands in controlfiles provide support for
+ single-byte (default), double-byte, HZ, Shift-JIS, and Unicode
+ UTF-8 encodings of the input
+
+o ISO 2022 escape sequences are decoded and interpreted
+
+o control files can now have the format of Unicode Consortium
+ mapping tables (two columns of numbers representing
+ input character and output character, no ranges, # comments)
+
+o new options -s (smush, same as -m-2), -k (kern, same as -m0),
+ -S (forced smushing), and -W (full width, same as -m-1) make
+ -m option unnecessary except for font designers. The -S option
+ works even if the font's smushmode is 0 or -1, in which case
+ the smushmode is read from a new parameter in the
+ font's first line, or does universal overlapping if no such parameter
+ exists
+
+o universal smushing (-o option to force it, but -S will use it
+ if no smush rules are available) makes FIGcharacters overlap by
+ one place independent of how they are constructed
+ more fonts smushable.
+
+o file "figmagic" can be appended to your system magic number
+ file to make the "file" command recognize FIGlet files
+
+o file "figfont.txt" is an implementation-independent specification
+ for FIGlet fonts and control files
+
+o integrated support for extended characters (extended Latin in
+ "standard", Greek in "big", katakana in "banner", Hebrew in new
+ "ivrit" fonts) with appropriate controlfiles
+
+o smushing rule 16 has changed slightly: "/\" now smushes
+ into "|" and "\/" smushes into "Y"; "><" still smushes
+ into "X" and "<>" is still not smushed at all.
+
+o -A option introduced in FIGlet 2.1.2 is now optional;
+ if any words appear on the command line after the options,
+ they are formatted, and the standard input is not read.
+
+These changes were made by John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>.
+
+Changes in FIGlet 2.1.2
+------------------------
+
+FIGlet 2.1.2 is a minor revision of FIGlet 2.1.1. The files
+README, FTP-NOTE, figlet.c and figlet.6 have been changed. All other
+files are identical with the 2.1.1 release.
+
+o The only new option is -A, which causes FIGlet to read input
+ from the command line.
+
+These changes were made by Gilbert Healton <ghealton@nmia.com> as Glenn
+Chappell is now busy as a new professor of Mathematics.
+
+Changes in FIGlet 2.1
+----------------------
+
+A number of minor bugs and major incompatibility problems have been
+fixed. FIGlet 2.1 should compile correctly on many operating systems for
+which FIGlet 2.0 did not.
+
+o The "-F" command line option, which used to list all the available
+ fonts, has been removed, since it made FIGlet incompatible with some
+ operating systems. It has been replaced by the "figlist" script. The
+ "showfigfonts" script has been updated so that it no longer requires
+ the "-F" option to be available.
+
+o The FIGlet font file format has been extended to allow an arbitrarily
+ large number of characters. The ISO Latin-1 character set, which
+ includes many accented letters and special symbols, has been added to
+ most standard fonts.
+
+o FIGlet can now print right-to-left. This can be specified on the
+ command line ("-R") or in the font file. Thus, for example, Hebrew and
+ Arabic fonts can be handled more easily.
+
+o FIGlet can now right justify its output. This is the default when
+ right-to-left printing is selected. It can also be specified on the
+ command line ("-r").
+
+o FIGlet now supports "control files". These can be used to change which
+ character FIGlet will print when it sees a certain input character --
+ sort of an expanded version of the "-D" option. For example, a control
+ file could convert lower-case letters to upper-case or map certain
+ ASCII characters to accented letters. Control file names end with the
+ suffix ".flc". Select a control file by using "-C controlfile" on the
+ command line. Several controlfiles can be used at once by giving
+ muliple "-C" options.
+
+o There is now a way for programs that use FIGlet to get various
+ information from FIGlet, for example, what version of FIGlet is being
+ used or the name of the default font directory. This information is
+ gotten through the "-I" option. See the man page for details.