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Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.9
NEW FEATURES
Updated Google Fonts database.
BUG FIXES
Updated the linking on Windows for upcoming version of Rtools, thanks to Tomas Kalibera.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.8
BUG FIXES
-
font_add()
now gives a warning if the parameters are not length-one vectors. C functions are now called using registered native symbols.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.7
NEW FEATURES
Updated Google Fonts database.
BUG FIXES
Updated the documentation for
font_add_google()
.Fixed the bug that
db_cache = FALSE
is not effective in the second call offont_add_google()
.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.6
BUG FIXES
Supported UCRT on Windows, thanks to Tomas Kalibera and Uwe Ligges.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.5
BUG FIXES
Fixed the configure script, thanks to Prof. Brian Ripley.
Fixed compiler warnings.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.4
NEW FEATURES
Updated Google Fonts database.
BUG FIXES
Added a new search path in the configure script (#17).
Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.3
BUG FIXES
Fixed a string comparison issue in the configure script (#14).
Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.2
NEW FEATURES
Added a new system font path for macOS, suggested by Athanasia Mowinckel (#13).
Updated Google Fonts database.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.1
NEW FEATURES
Updated Google Fonts database.
BUG FIXES
Updated the download method for installation on Windows.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.8
NEW FEATURES
Now
font_files()
can report more information of the fonts, for example the family name, font face, version, and PostScript font name, suggested by pull request #7 of the binb package.Updated Google Fonts database.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.7.3
NEW FEATURES
Added function
font_info_google()
to retrieve metadata of Google Fonts (#7), thanks to @camille-s.Added an argument
db_cache
tofont_info_google()
,font_families_google()
, andfont_add_google()
to force using Google Fonts API to retrieve font metadata, suggested by issue #23 of the showtext package.Updated Google Fonts database.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.7.2
NEW FEATURES
Updated Google Fonts database.
BUG FIXES
Fixed installation problems on Windows.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.7.1
BUG FIXES
Fixed the use of one deprecated function.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.7
API CHANGES
All previous API functions now have aliases replacing the dots with underscores in the function names, for example
font_add()
is equivalent tofont.add()
.The "underscore" naming is preferred, and the "dot" version will be gradually deprecated.
NEW FEATURES
Added a "
handle
" parameter tofont_add_google()
in order to support proxies (#4), thanks to @Sdurier.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.6
NEW FEATURES
Updated the included Liberation fonts to version 1.07.4.
Updated Google Fonts database.
-
sysfonts now uses the curl package to fetch Google Fonts files.
-
font.add()
now supports tilde path expansion, for examplefont.add("xkcd", "~/xkcd.ttf")
(#1), thanks to @r2evans.
BUG FIXES
Added a 'cleanup' script per CRAN policies.
Registered native routines per CRAN policies.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.5
BUG FIXES
More robust way to fetch font list.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.4
BUG FIXES
Fixed a problem reported by Philippe Massicotte involving incomplete downloading of font files.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.3
NEW FEATURES
No longer prints message at start-up.
Now has faster loading of Google Fonts list.
Changes in sysfonts version 0.2
NEW FEATURES
-
sysfonts can now add fonts from Google Fonts (https://fonts.google.com/).
Changes in sysfonts version 0.1
NEW FEATURES
Initial release.