# ChangeLog for jmk-x11-fonts -*- text -*- # autodate: 1999-Aug-24 00:09 v3.0: 1999-08-20 - Added two new font encodings for the Neep font family: ISO8859-9 (Latin5, Western European + Turkish) ISO8859-15 (Latin9, Western European + Euro Symbol) - Added a NEWS file, and moved the change history into its own separate ChangeLog file. - Quite a few X applications (notably Gimp and Netscape) pay no attention whatsoever to the ADD_STYLE font field. I consider that broken behavior. Unfortunately, to work around that, i've had to abandon use of the ADD_STYLE field to indicate the font variants with alternate ampersand glyphs. Now, the regular variants have a FAMILY_NAME of `Neep', and the alternate variants have a FAMILY_NAME of `Neep Alt'. See the NEWS file for info on dealing with this change. - Back in version 1.3, i changed the shape of the Neep-18 fonts from a round shape to a relatively square one, chiefly because the bold font looked ... well, they looked bad. I have since discovered how to make them look good. :) Hence, they are back to a (now significantly more legible) round shape. Now i'm even willing to use them. :) - As a result of the item above, i also improved the bold weights of the Neep-24 fonts and the Neep-9 fonts and both the regular and bold weights of the Neep-14 fonts (i think these in particular look much better). Also made the shapes and centering of some glyphs consistent across all sizes and weights of the Neep family. - Removed the `13-point' (6x14) variants from the Neep family (the ones with increased height for diacritical marks). I didn't get enough positive feedback about them, and i was tired of maintaining two complete variants of the same font that were nearly alike. See the NEWS file for more info. - The last release left out entries in fonts.alias for the neep-9 fonts. Added them. Thanks to Edgar Toernig for pointing that out. v2.1: 1999-06-12 - Added 8-point (5x10) Neep font; now Neep can get even smaller. - Added bold variant of neep-9 (5x11). It's tough to properly do boldface that small, but here's an attempt. I'm not particularly satisfied with it yet, but it's worth releasing. - Tweaked glyphs in neep-9, partly due to the new bold variant. - Added a `13-point' (6x14) set of Neep variants; this set gives diacritical marks a bit more vertical space than the 6x13 font, so that accented capital letters can extend closer to their full height. As a result, though, it also takes more vertical space in general. This is an experimental font; feedback would be appreciated. - Added a set of 10-point (6x11) Modd fonts. - Put Modd parts into a directory structure similar to that of Neep, in preparation for more font encodings. As a result, the filenames of Modd fonts have changed. Be sure you move the old `jmk' font directory out of the way before installing, otherwise you'll end up with conflicting fonts. v2.0: 1999-01-20 - Added ISO-8859-2 (Latin2) fonts. Changed fonts.alias so that the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) fonts are called, e.g., `neep-iso8859-1-bold-12' instead of `neep-bold-12'. `neep-bold-12' is, by default, an alias for `neep-iso8859-1-bold-12'; by editing fonts.alias before installing, you can make `neep-bold-12' point to `neep-iso8859-2-bold-12' to use the ISO-8859-2 fonts by default, if you use font aliases. - `NouveauGothic' has disappeared from fonts.alias, as a direct result of the above. If you want NouveauGothic aliases, you'll have to maintain them yourself. - Very minor tweaks to some characters. Specificially: improvements to characters with a cedilla in almost all sizes of Neep; improvements to characters with a tilde in Neep-12 and Neep-Bold-12. v1.3: 1998-12-22 - Changed the name of NouveauGothic to `Neep'. I intended the font to be mostly practical (i.e., compact but legible), but with some aesthetic value. `NouveauGothic' is just too damn long a name to be considered practical---four letters is much more practical. And, according to my (printed) edition of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary: neep, n. < Anglo-Saxon `næp'; (Scot. and Dial.) A turnip. What could be more practical than a turnip? NOTE: If you install the `fonts.alias' file, the old names will still work. They'll be phased out in a later release. NOTE ALSO: If you have a prior version of jmk-x11-fonts, you should probably move the `jmk' font directory out of the way before installing this version. If you don't do so, you're likely to create a bit of a mess. If you upgrade using an RPM, you're in good shape (it's one good reason to use packages like RPMs). - Radically changed the shape of Neep-18 (the 10x20 font). The shape was too round and created jaggies on some characters. The new shape is more square, and i think it's more legible. Constructive comments are welcome on this. - Tweaked glyphs in Neep-9 (the 5x11 font). Some glyphs weren't properly centered in the character cell, and some accented characters didn't have the proper shape. - Tweaked a few glyphs in Modd and Modd-Bold; the accented `i' glyphs still had an old serif on them. - Still only ISO-8859-1 encoding. Sorry ... i was in West Africa for five weeks. Next time. v1.2: 1998-10-13 - Added alternate set of NouveauGothic fonts which have a more traditionally-shaped ampersand (&) character, for those who prefer it. The alternate fonts are installed alongside the regular ones and are available via font aliases as, for example, `nouveau-gothic-alt-12' or `nouveau-gothic-alt-bold-24'. Thanks to Alain Empain for pointing out that folks don't have the same typographical conventions everywhere. - Changed the filenames of the 5x11, 6x11, 6x13, and 8x15 fonts to use two digits in the XxY part of the filename (for example, `nouveau-gothic-05x11.bdf') so that filenames sort properly without user intervention. This is something i should have done from the beginning. This change will probably require that you either move the old font directory out of the way or remove it completely before installing the new fonts. Note that this change does *not* affect the actual X11 font names, only the font filenames. - Radically restructured the way the NouveauGothic fonts are built in preparation for multiple font encodings down the road. v1.1: 1998-09-16 - Added Modd font family. - Added two new sizes to NouveauGothic: extra small (5x11 medium weight only) and huge (12x24). - Added tick marks to zero ('0') characters in medium weights of most NouveauGothic sizes, to aid in differentiating from capital 'O' characters. Some bold weights (as well as the 5x11 medium weight) don't have enough room for tick marks. v1.0.1: 1998-09-06 Fixed bug in nouveau-gothic-6x11.bdf where characters 251 and 252 were 1 pixel below the baseline. Thanks to Edgar Toernig . v1.0: 1998-08-31 Initial release. -------- End of document --------