notes about recent changes
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FontTools Version 1.0 beta ? (released ???)
+- Changed the command line interface yet again:
+ - file arguments now work more like the 'cp' and 'mv' unix programs,
+ in that the last file argument specifies the output: a directory
+ for one or more input args or a target file if there's only one input
+ argument.
+ - The -s option of ttdump ("split tables") no longer creates a directory,
+ but instead outputs a small .ttx file containing references to the
+ individual table files. This is not a true link, it's a simple file
+ name, and the referenced file should be in the same directory so
+ ttcompile can find them.
+ - ttcompile no longer accepts a directory as input argument. Instead it
+ can parse the new "mini-ttx" format as output by "ttdump -s".
+- Renamed the command line programs and moved them to the Tools
+ subdirectory. They are now installed by the setup.py install script.
+- Added a new command line tool: "ttlist". It lists some info about each
+ table in the font (length, offset and checksum).
+- Added OpenType support. BASE, GDEF, GPOS, GSUB and JSTF are (almost)
+ fully supported. The XML output is not yet final, as I'm still
+ considering to output certain subtables in a more human-friendly
+ manner.
+- Fixed 'kern' table to correctly accept subtables it doesn't know about,
+ as well as interpreting Apple's definition of the 'kern' table headers
+ correctly.
+- Fixed bug where glyphnames were not calculated from 'cmap' if it was
+ (one of the) first tables to be decompiled. More specifically: it cmap
+ was the first to ask for a glyphID -> glyphName mapping.
- Switched XML parsers: use expat instead of xmlproc. Should be faster.
- Removed my UnicodeString object: I now require Python 2.0 or up, which
has unicode support built in.
-- Removed assert in glypf table: redundant data at the end of the table
+- Removed assert in glyf table: redundant data at the end of the table
is now ignored instead of raising an error. Should become a warning.
- Fixed bug in hmtx/vmtx code that only occured if all advances were equal.
- Fixed subtle bug in TT instruction disassembler.
-- Couple of fixes in 'post' table.
+- Couple of fixes to the 'post' table.
- Updated OS/2 table to latest spec.
FontTools Version 1.0 beta 1 (released August 10 2001)