* NEWS -- What's new in the m17n library. -*- outline -*- Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Registration Number H15PRO112 See the end for copying conditions. * Changes in the m17n library 1.6.3 This release is just for bug fixing. * Changes in the m17n library 1.6.4 This release is just for bug fixing. * 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, MTEXT_FORMAT_UTF_16BE, MTEXT_FORMAT_UTF_LE, MTEXT_FORMAT_UTF_32BE dependending on the systems's endianess. ** In the argument PLIST of mframe (), the key Mfont can be used to 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 ** The "configure" script now detects Fontconfig, Xft2, and GD libraries. If Fontconfig library is found, the library find local font files (that are to be handled by the Freetype library) by fontconfig, and if Xft2 library is also found, draw text by Xft. ** Mdevice (new symbol) is recoginized as a key in the argument PLIST of mframe (). The value must be Mx (new symbol), Mgd (new symbol), or Mnil. See the documentation of mframe () for more detail. ** MDrawControl has a new member `anti_alias'. If MDrawControl->anti_alias is nonzero, try to draw anti-aliased text if local fonts are used for that text via Freetype. If Xft2 library can be used, the anti-alias processing is done by Xft2's drawing routine. Otherwise, the m17n library itself does it by assumming that the background color is `background' property of a face. ** Modification of face is now automatically refelected to the next drawing. So, for instance, an application can change the default face of a frame after the frame is created. The sample program "medit" utilize it now. ** New function mfontset_lookup () reports contents of a fontset. ** New function mplist_deseriaze () parses an M-Text and generates a plist. ** The functions mfont_name () and mfont_from_name () are now obsolete (still kept for backward compatibility). Use mfont_parse_name () and mfont_unparse_name () instead. ** The sample program "mdump" generates PNG image file instead of PBM. It now runs only when the m17n library is configured with the Freetype library and the GD library. * Changes in the m17n library 1.0 ** Released. * Copyright information Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Registration Number H15PRO112 This file is part of the m17n library. The m17n library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The m17n library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" End: