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diff --git a/info/fontname/NEWS b/info/fontname/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1ccaf22c37 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/fontname/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +This file used to record noteworthy changes, but fontname is no longer +released separately, but rather updated continuously. So, see the +ChangeLog for changes after July 1998. + +2.2 (1 July 1998) +* Rearrange distribution so map files can be updated independently. +* New variants inferior, superior, etc. +* New supplier Wolfram (w), new wolfram.map. +* Many new typeface abbreviations. + +2.1 (5 July 1996) +* Add oldstyle, shadow, schoolbook, superfont variants. +* Add Cyrillic, Greek, expertised encodings. +* Additions to special.map. +* New urw.map file, additions to monotype.map, Ibycus in typeface.map. +* New softkey*.map files. +* DC and TS files now in supplier jknappen. + +2.0 (12 August 1995) +* New encoding variants 7 and 8 to expand the namespace, changing + existing names for expert, oldstyle figure, alternate fonts. +* Tables split out from fontname.texi to machine-readable *.map files. +* Abbreviations for the 500-font Bitstream CD, the Softkey Keyfonts + Pro CD, and common Apple fonts included. +* TimesNewRomanPS assigned its own typeface family. +* Some afm2tfm *.enc files included. +* Many miscellanous corrections and additions. + +1.6 (30 March 1994) +* New variant `8' meaning next-character-is-also-a-variant, giving us + another [a-z0-9] to play with. ISO Latin 1, 2, and 5, Windows ANSI, + and the Mac standard layouts all assigned. +* New typefaces: wi=Wingdings, mg=Marigold, m0=Monospace. +* One new alias (Omega=Optima). |