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 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 . 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 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.