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@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +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. |