1Spleen 2.1.0 (2024-03-22) 2 3- Document how wsfont header files (for OpenBSD and NetBSD) are generated 4- Add base cyrillic (basic alphabet + most used extended) characters (Thanks 5 Slava Voronzoff!) 6- Fix latin small letter 'u' smoothing in the 32x64 version 7- Fix smoothing on more variants of 'u' in the 32x64 version 8 9 10 11Spleen 2.0.2 (2023-12-25) 12 13- Fix MALE and FEMALE character ordering in the 16x32 and 32x64 14 versions (Thanks Mike Cui) 15- Update README to add a link to the Alpine Linux package 16 17 18 19Spleen 2.0.1 (2023-11-17) 20 21- Add a 'com' target to generate SPLEEN.COM, the DOS version of Spleen 22- Also add 'com' in the 'all' target 23- Update README to add a link to the Guix package 24- In the Spleen loader for DOS, put 4C00h in ax and not 4Ch 25- README.md: add Gentoo package link 26- Switch to using Oxipng as it compresses even more than OptiPNG 27- Add a new FAQ file answering frequently asked questions about Spleen 28- Remove C0 control characters range in the 8x16, 16x32, and 32x64 versions 29 30 31 32Spleen 2.0.0 (2023-05-28) 33 34- Add full support for CP437 (IBM PC) in the 8x16, 16x32, and 32x64 versions 35- Add a cp437 directory with BDF files using the IBM Code page 437 encoding 36- Add a DOS version, as a COM file (SPLEEN.COM) setting the font to Spleen 37- Add various arrows and triangle-headed arrows in the 8x16, 16x32, and 38 32x64 versions 39- Shift bullet character at correct position (U+2022) in the 32x64 version 40- Add union symbol in the 8x16, 16x32, and 32x64 versions 41- Do not remove specimen.png in the clean target 42 43 44 45Spleen 1.9.3 (2023-04-07) 46 47- Add a 'fon' target to generate FON files for all sizes using FontForge 48- Mention the FON version in the README, in notes for Windows users 49 50 51 52Spleen 1.9.2 (2023-02-15) 53 54- Add Spleen ASCii logo header (Thanks H7!) 55- Add SPDX short license identifier in sources and fonts 56- Fix link to the Spleen package in AUR 57- Use printf instead of echo for *BSD and Linux cross-compatibility 58- Generate a specimen file for Spleen and include it in the repository 59- Adjust trivias: the Haiku kernel debugger doesn't use Spleen anymore 60- Update README to add a link to the MacPorts package 61- Point the OpenBSD package link to openports.pl 62 63 64 65Spleen 1.9.1 (2021-06-13) 66 67- Tweak wsfont export program to account for the new block in the 6x12 version 68- Mention that Haiku now uses Spleen 12x24 in the trivia section 69- Fix paths to wsfont generators 70- Add an 'otb' target to generate OTB files for all sizes using fonttosfnt 71- Also remove generated .otb files in the 'clean' target 72- Generate .dfont files again in release tarballs 73- Generate OTB versions in release tarballs 74- Also remove generated .dfont files in the 'clean' target 75 76 77 78Spleen 1.9.0 (2021-03-12) 79 80- Set WEIGHT_NAME property to "Medium" for all sizes 81- Increment STARTPROPERTIES to account for WEIGHT_NAME addition 82- Enlarge vertical line for consistency with other small sizes (5x8 version) 83- Add full support for the Latin-1 Supplement Unicode block (6x12 version) 84 85 86 87Spleen 1.8.2 (2020-07-31) 88 89- Fix size of the lower case 'ae' character in the 16x32 and 32x64 versions 90- Fix size of the lower case 'oe' character in the 16x32 and 32x64 versions 91- Add 'AE' and 'ae' characters with acute accent 92- Add 'AE' and 'ae' characters with macron 93- Add 'A', 'a', 'E', 'e', 'I', 'i', 'O', 'o', 'R', 'r', 'U', 'u' with 94 inverted breve 95- Add 'A', 'a', 'O', 'o' characters with dot above 96- Add 'O' and 'o' characters with ogonek 97- Add 'O' and 'o' characters with ogonek and macron 98- Shorten parentheses, square brackets, braces, slash, backslash in the 99 8x16 version, fixing alignment issues 100- Shift vertical line and double vertical line characters one pixel 101 up (8x16 version) 102 103 104 105Spleen 1.8.1 (2020-07-16) 106 107- Center tilde vertically for all sizes, as modern fonts do 108- Add black triangles in the 25E2-25E5 range 109- Add single angle quotation mark characters 110- Add white and black circle characters 111- Add inverse bullet and inverse white circle characters 112- Add 'A', 'a', 'O', 'o', 'U', 'u' characters with caron 113- Add 'I', 'i', 'G', 'g', 'j' characters with caron 114- Add 'H', 'h', 'K', 'k', characters with caron 115- Add 'E' and 'e' characters with cedilla 116- Add 'A', 'a', 'E', 'e', 'I', 'i', 'O', 'o', 'R', 'r', 'U', 'u' with 117 double grave 118- Add "almost equal to" character 119- Add 'G' and 'g' characters with acute accent 120- Add 'O' and 'o' characters with stroke and acute 121- Add double vertical bar and double exclamation mark characters 122- Add stand alone breve, dot above, ogonek, small tilde, and double 123 acute accent 124 125 126 127Spleen 1.8.0 (2020-06-29) 128 129- Add Initial 6x12 version, containing printable ASCII characters, the 130 Braille Patterns Unicode block, and light Box Drawing characters 131- Improve ampersand character, making it more consistent with other 132 sizes (5x8 version) 133- Add instructions on how to use Spleen in the NetBSD console 134 135 136 137Spleen 1.7.1 (2020-06-21) 138 139- Add some Powerline characters (arrows symbols and padlock) (5x8 version) 140- Fix duplicate character names for Powerline symbols 141- Uppercase ISO in the FONT property so fonts can be processed through 142 ucs2any(1) 143- Add "Black Diamond" and "Lozenge" characters for all sizes 144- Add "Black Heart Suit" and "Black Diamond Suit" characters for all sizes 145- Remove strain pixel on the '5' digit (5x8 version) 146- Improve the Esszet character (8x16, 12x24, 16x32, and 32x64 versions) 147 148 149 150Spleen 1.7.0 (2020-02-13) 151 152- Improve generated PSF files so that box-drawing characters are correctly 153 displayed 154- Add the FONT_VERSION XFLD property for all BDF sizes 155- Generate OpenType (OTF) versions for the 8x16, 12x24, 16x32 and 32x64 sizes 156- Stop generating .dfont files, OTF versions should be used instead 157- Add links to Debian and Ubuntu packages. 158 159 160 161Spleen 1.6.0 (2019-12-02) 162 163- Make it clear that .dfont files are provided in release tarballs 164- Initial SFD version converted from the 8x16 BDF file 165- Add a 'otf' target in the Makefile to generate an OTF version 166- Mention the OTF version in the README, in notes for Windows users 167 168 169 170Spleen 1.5.0 (2019-10-01) 171 172- Shift the middle bar of the digit '3' one pixel up, for better 173 alignment (12x24 version) 174- Tweak the digit '7' for consistency with other sizes (5x8 version) 175- Make the 'Z', 'z' and derived characters more balanced, as is the 176 case with other sizes (12x24 version) 177- Tweak the digit '2' for consistency with other sizes (12x24 version) 178- Make the slash inside the digit '0' one pixel thiner (32x64 version) 179- Add light box drawings characters in the 5x8 version 180- Add full support for the Braille Patterns Unicode block in the 5x8 version 181- Add branch, LN, and padlock icons for Powerline users 182- Also provide a fonts.alias file, along with fonts.alias-spleen 183 184 185 186Spleen 1.4.0 (2019-09-24) 187 188- Add left and right single quotation mark characters, both identical to 189 an apostrophe 190- Add left and right double quotation mark characters, both identical to 191 ASCII quotation mark 192- Add bullet and horizontal ellipsis characters 193- Add the eight trigrams 194- Add full support for the Block Elements Unicode block 195 196 197 198Spleen 1.3.0 (2019-09-12) 199 200- Add full support for the Box Drawing Unicode block 201- Add arrows symbols for Powerline users 202 203 204 205Spleen 1.2.0 (2019-09-06) 206 207- Add link to instructions on how to enable bitmap fonts support on Ubuntu 208- Add a Makefile target to generate a specimen file 209- Add full support for the Braille Patterns Unicode block 210- Add light box drawings characters for the 16x32 and 32x64 versions 211 212 213 214Spleen 1.1.0 (2019-08-29) 215 216- Added instructions on how to use Spleen in the FreeBSD console 217- Optimize generated screenshots with OptiPNG 218- Remove the dfont target in Makefile, generated files do not work on 219 modern macOS versions 220- Add full support for the Latin Extended-A Unicode block 221- Add euro symbol 222- Character at position CB is 'E' with diaeresis, not with tilde (12x24 version) 223- Character at position D6 is 'O' with diaeresis, not with tilde (12x24 version) 224- Character at position DC is 'U' with diaeresis, not with tilde (12x24 version) 225- Fix tilde alignment in the 'o' with tilde character (32x64 version) 226- Fix middle bar thickness in the upper case 'eth' character (12x24 version) 227- Fix ring alignment for the 'A' and 'a' characters (16x32 and 32x64 versions) 228- Remove strain pixel on the '3' and 'k' characters (32x64 version) 229- Remove fillers for characters other than ISO 8859-1 ones (5x8 version) 230 231 232 233Spleen 1.0.5 (2019-06-01) 234 235- Initial support for the Latin Extended-A Unicode block, all sizes but 236 5x8 now have all Polish characters available 237- Shift the middle bar of the upper case 'G' one pixel down (12x24 version) 238- Shift lower case 'k' character right, for better alignment (12x24, 16x32, 239 and 32x64 versions) 240- Make upper case 'X' thicker (16x32 and 32x64 versions) 241- Make upper case 'V' thicker (32x64 version) 242- Make lower case 'g' character smoother (16x32 and 32x64 versions) 243- Add some artefacts on each side of the lower case 'i' 244- Also add artefacts on each side of accented lower case 'i' characters 245 246 247 248Spleen 1.0.4 (2019-02-07) 249 250- Remove quotation marks around XLFD font names 251- Remove strain pixels on the inner upper part of parentheses (16x32 version) 252- Harmonize the 'v' and 'V' characters across all sizes 253- Remove artefacts from the 'c' in the copyright sign (8x16, 12x24, 16x32, and 254 32x64 versions) 255- Make the upper left corner of the 'R' sharp in the registered sign (16x32, 256 and 32x64 versions) 257- Add initial Makefile, allowing to easily generate formats other than BDF 258- Remove all .dfont files from the repository, formats other than BDF are now 259 only distributed in release tarballs 260- Provide generated fonts in PCF, PSF, and .dfont formats 261 262 263 264Spleen 1.0.3 (2018-12-01) 265 266- Remove extra pixel from the '@' character (12x24 version) 267- Harmonize '@' character spacing with other sizes (16x32 and 32x64 versions) 268- Revert change to the upper case 'K' character (5x8 version) 269 270 271 272Spleen 1.0.2 (2018-11-26) 273 274- Tweak 'f' and 't' characters to make them more consistent (8x16 version) 275- Make the upper case 'K' middle bar shorter, helps differentiating it from 276 upper case 'H' (5x8, 12x24, 16x32) 277- Fix alignment of parentheses with square brackets and braces (32x64 version) 278- Fix SIZE, MIN_SPACE, and SWIDTH properties for all fonts 279- Make the at sign higher (8x16, 12x24, 16x32, and 32x64 versions) 280- Harmonize angle quotes (8x16, 12x24, 16x32, and 32x64 versions) 281- Flip lower case 'n' with tilde horizontally, to match the normal 'n' 282 character (8x16, 12x24, 16x32, and 32x64 versions) 283- Remove artefacts from 'C', 'c' and 'F' characters for all fonts 284- Remove artefact from the upper case 'G' character (8x16, 12x24, 16x32, 285 and 32x64 versions) 286- Remove artefacts from 'C' and 'c' derived characters (8x16, 12x24, 287 16x32, and 32x64 versions) 288- Set DEFAULT_CHAR to 32, as we don't have a 0 char 289 290 291 292Spleen 1.0.1 (2018-09-28) 293 294- Documentation updates: add XLFD font names and operating system packages 295 section 296- Improve ampersand character, make superscript digits thicker, shift 297 percent sign, asterisk, plus, minus, and equal signs one pixel up, for 298 alignment (8x16 version) 299- Shift asterisk character up by one pixel, to align it with minus and plus 300 signs (12x24 version) 301- Improve percent sign alignment and make it more consistent with other 302 sizes (16x32 and 32x64 versions) 303 304 305 306Spleen 1.0.0 (2018-09-18) 307 308- Initial release 309
