X-Git-Url: http://git.chise.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=05421e02e1215f4d70ef599f5cfe48272effb23a;hb=012f94b974e030c40d39836cae8505ad0399303c;hp=840365ffd760c06a27a7641dfc791ce9a262de8c;hpb=b526f55ebef64026ac623f16d02452d19da9320d;p=m17n%2Fm17n-lib.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 840365f..05421e0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,146 @@ * NEWS -- What's new in the m17n library. -*- outline -*- -Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 +Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Registration Number H15PRO112 See the end for copying conditions. -* Changes in the m17n library 1.1.1 +* Changes in the m17n library 1.6.2 + +This release is just for bug fixing. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.6.1 + +** Libtool 1.5.26 can be used to build the library from CVS source. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.6.0 + +** For handling new spec in the Unicode 5.2, these new APIs are added +to m17n-flt.h. + mflt_enable_new_feature + mflt_iterate_otf_feature + mflt_font_id + mflt_try_otf + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.5.5 + +** Now libtool 2.2.4 or the later is required to build the library +from CVS source. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.5.4 + +** New coding system names "Shift_JIS" and "windows-XXXX" are +recognized. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.5.3 + +This release is just for bug fixing. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.5.2 + +This release is just for bug fixing. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.5.1 + +This release is just for bug fixing. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.5.0 + +** New API layer FLT is created. + +** New environment variable MDEBUG_FLT is available to turn on +printing debug information for FLT, and these are now obsolete; +MDEBUG_FONT_FLT, MDEBUG_FONT_OTF. + +** New functions mchartable_min_char () returns the mininum character. +that is set some value in a char-table. New funcion +mchartable_min_char () is for the maximum character. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.4.0 + +** If the environment variable "M17NDIR" is not set, the directory +"~/.m17n.d" is serched for database files. + +** New function mfont_list_family_names () returns a list of available +font family names. + +** New functions mlanguage_list (), mlanguage_code (), +mlanguage_name_list (), and mlanguage_text () return various +language-related information. + +** New functions mscript_list () and mscript_language_list () return +various script-related information. + +** New function msymbol_put_func (), msymbol_get_func (), +mplist_put_func (), mplist_get_func (), mface_put_hook (), and +mface_get_hook () are available to avoid unsafe casting of function +pointer. New macro M17N_FUNC and new type M17NFunc are also +introduced. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.3.0 + +** The `configure' script accepts the argument "--without-gui" to +suppress building GUI libraries. + +** The environment variable MDEBUG_OUTPUT_FILE can specify a file to +output the debugging log messages. + +** The member `candidate_changed' of MInputContext carries more +information; i.e. the list itself is changed, only an index is +changed, etc. + +** The member `callback_list' of MInputDriver can have callback +functions `input-get-surrounding-text' and +`input-delete-surrounding-text'. + +** The minput_filter () function accepts special events +`input-focus-move', `input-focus-in', and `input-focus-out'. + +** Three letter codes of ISO639-2 are also accepted as language +symbols. + +** New functions minput_get_description (), minput_get_commands (), +minput_assign_command_keys (), minput_get_variables (), and +minput_set_variable(), minput_get_title_icon() are introduced for +handling input methods. + +** New fucntions mtext_insert () and and mtext_replace () for +modifying M-text. + +** New functions mtext_uppercase (), mtext_titlecase (), +mtext_lowercase () implement "3.13 Default Case Operations" of The +Unicode Standard 4.0. + +** New function mtext_line_break () implements the line breaking +algorithm of The Unicode Standard 4.0 UAX#14. The algorithm can be +controlled by the variable mdraw_line_break_option. + +** New function msymbol_is_managing_key () checks if a symbol is a +managing key or not. + +** New function mtext_data () exports various information about +M-text. + +** Function mfont_get_prop () accept properties `fontfile', +`font-acsent', `font-descent', and `max-advance'. + +** New function mfont_check () checks if a specific font can be used +for a specific script and language. + +** New function mface_equal () checks if two faces are equal or not. + + +* Changes in the m17n library 1.2.0 ** Two new variables MTEXT_FORMAT_UTF_16 and MTEXT_FORMAT_UTF_32. They are initialized to one of MTEXT_FORMAT_UTF_16LE, @@ -17,6 +152,15 @@ specify which font-backend to use. The value must be Mx or Mfreetype. ** New function mfont_list () returns a list of matching fonts. +** New function m17n_status () returns the current initialization +status. + +** New function minput_reset () resets the current input context. + +** Names of sample programs have prefix "m17n-" instead of single "m". +This is to avoid confiliction of program names included in the other +packages. + * Changes in the m17n library 1.1.0 @@ -70,8 +214,9 @@ library and the GD library. * Copyright information -Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 National Institute of Advanced Industrial - Science and Technology (AIST) Registration Number H15PRO112 +Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 + National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) + Registration Number H15PRO112 This file is part of the m17n library. @@ -87,10 +232,10 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the m17n library; if not, write to the Free -Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA -02111-1307, USA. +Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, +Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. -Local variables: +Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" -end: +End: