- proper hinting for digital publishing by new ttfautohint of Freetype
instead of Fontforge autoInstr
- fix LibreOffice crash with dotted tabulation (conflict between
dot-to-ellipsis mechanisms), problem reported by user "bolond"
on HUP.hu, and István Bobay on Libreoffice.hu
- fix proportional old style numbers leading with Euro symbol,
problem with the first digit reported by Kim Bastin
- fix Linux Libertine G semibold Italic (missing Graphite features)
- sups uses hyphen.sups replacement for hyphen instead of minus.superior
(use explicit minus sign or feature texm: texm keeps minus.superior
for hyphen input, like TeX)
- new feature: "litt", optional switch for the default "tt" ligature
- fix f] and f' (typographic apostrophe) kerning in Linux Libertine
Italic
- remove bad ligc replacement in superiors and inferiors
It will probably be simplest to just use FreeType on Android,
too. (Android uses it itself, but doesn't provide its API publicly.)
Probably fontconfig, too, although there shouldn't be much
configuration per se that a LibreOffice-baed app would have to do at
run-time; it will have to bundle all fonts it is going to use anyway,
I think, so all font information is known a priori. But maybe in the
future there will be user-installable system fonts on Android, or
something.
As an aside we can always use the configuration and data files belonging to the
system version now in --with-system-libexttextcat mode, so need for the --data
option.
- new fonts: Linux Libertine Display and Linux Libertine semibold,
semibold italic, based on Linux Libertine v5.1.3-2
- combining diacritics
- new font features: dbls, hang, itlc, ligc, lith, nfsp, para
- feature sups with capitals, diacritics, ligatures, some punctuation
marks
- extended feature algn
- fixed Catalan l
- new glyphs for ligature gy, gj, gf, gfi, gfö...
- improved glyphs and kerning
- proportional numbers in superiors (sups + pnum)
- see doc/features.pdf or http://www.numbertext.org/linux/NEWS.pdf
