[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.0 released

[Chris Yocum]

Hi Khaled,

Please accept my heartfelt congradulations.  This was a huge amount of
work and you should be commended!

All the best,
Chris Yocum

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 01:14:31AM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just uploaded a beta release of 0.9999.x series.
> 
> The archive can be downloaded from SourceForge page:
> 
> 	https://sourceforge.net/projects/xetex/files/source/
> 
> There have been quite some changes in this release, and testing is
> highly appreciated, the more testing the better, but please note that
> this is a beta release and should not be used in production
> environments. There are no pre-built binaries right now, but they should
> be available from TLContrib shortly.
> 
> 
> Main changes in this release:
> 
> * Port OpenType layout from ICU LayoutEngine to HarfBuzz.
>   HarfBuzz is actively maintained and generally have much wider support for
>   OpenType spec, the switch fixes a number of OpenType bugs:
>   - Support version 2 OpenType Indic specs.
>   - Many other Indic OpenType bugs, and support for the latest additions to
>     OpenType spec.
>   - Incorrect application of contextual features.
>   - Incorrect kerning in fonts that has both old “kern” table and new GPOS
>     “kern” feature.
>   - Allow suppressing Latin ligatures with ZWNJ.
>   - Support for variation selectors.
>   - Support for user-specified features with complex scripts.
> 
> * Port Graphite layout to from SilGraphite to HarfBuzz and Graphite2. Which
>   provides a more robust Graphite support and also fixes a number of Graphite
>   bugs.
> 
> * Port AAT font layout and font searching on Mac from the deprecated ATS/ATSUI
>   to Core Text, and image support on Mac from QuickTime to ImageIO framework.
>   XeTeX can be finally built on 64-bit Mac! Work contributed by Jiang Jiang.
> 
> * Add “/OT” font variant, similar to “/ICU” which is now deprecated.
> 
> * Add a “shaper” font option to specify HarfBuzz shapers (for testing).
> 
> * Guessed script from input string if no one is given in the font definition,
>   instead of defaulting to Latin.
> 
> * Support 4-letter tags for Graphite features.
> 
> * Use \U prefix for extended math primitives, allowing XeTeX and LuaTeX to use
>   the same names for Unicode math primitives supported by both engines. The old
>   \XeTeX* primitives have been deprecated and will be removed in the future.
> 
> * Support OpenType math cut ins.
> 
> * Fix “\show” and “\meaning” of “\Umathchar” to a print a form that is legal
>   input.
> 
> * Fix italic correction to not depend on space factor being zero for OpenType
>   fonts.
> 
> * Fix sporadic shifting of extensible accents.
> 
> * Fix typesetting XeTeX’s WEB code, in addition to various slight improvements.
> 
> * Prefer TrueType/OpenType over Type1 fonts with the same font name.
> 
> * Support input pipes, in line with other engines.
> 
> * Drop support for using “()” as font names quotes since it was causing file
>   names with parenthesis not to be found.
> 
> * Fix “\show” with characters outside BMP.
> 
> * Print the actual character instead of hex code for characters outside BMP
>   with “\show”, “\meaning”, “\showlists” and missing char log messages.
> 
> * Fix letterspacing if zero width glyphs.
> 
> * Try to get cap and x height from OS/2 table first.
> 
> * Reject bitmap only fonts.
> 
> * Include build date in “--version” output.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Khaled
> 
> 
> P.S. Since I never announced the 0.9998 release (TeX Live 2012), I'm
> posting the changes here for reference.
> 
> ==============================================================
> XeTeX 0.9998 was released 20120708
> ==============================================================
> 
> * Fix mismatch between fonts loaded by XeTeX and xdvipdfmx when multiple
>   versions of the font exist.
> 
> * Fix “\the\textfont” with families > 15
> 
> * Extend “\fam” to accept family number up to 255.
> 
> * Fix build on Mac OS 10.7
> 
> OpenType math:
> 
> * Fix displacement of big operator's limits when “DisplayOperatorMinHeight” is
>   higher than the size of the big operator.
> 
> * Fix too wide accents over accentees that has sub/superscript.
> 
> * Support extensible accents for “\overbrace” etc.
> 
> * Always take math constants from current font, fixes multiple math discrepancies.
> 
> * Honor relevant math constants when positioning sub/superscripts.
> 
> * Honor “AccentBaseHeight” when placing accents.
> 
> * Support “fixed” and “bottom” keywords in “\XeTeXmathaccent” for non growing
>   and bottom accents, respectively.
> 
> * Fix horizontal placement of of accents over single letters to honor their top
>   accent position value.
> 
> * Fix vertical placement of sub/superscripts of single letters to not be
>   treated as non-single letters.
> 
> * Support proper positioning of nested accents.
> 
> 
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