Change history
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## v2.8a (2022/01/15)
* Add `SwashFont` and `BoldSwashFont` features to support LaTeX's now-builtin `\textsw`
and `\swshape` commands, with matching `SwashFeatures` and `BoldSwashFeatures`.
A simple implementation that has scope to get more complex if need be.
* Remove some legacy code that extended the NFSS in ways that are now handled by
LaTeX2e natively.
* Long neglected updates through various Github Issues and pull requests.
Thanks for your patience with the delays.
## v2.7i (2020/02/21)
* Define both `b` and `bx` font series by default to avoid spurious warnings in some
cases, and broken behaviour in pathological cases.
## v2.7h (2020/02/03)
* Eroneous uses of `language=DFLT` changed to `language=dflt`.
* Fix spurious error in some cases of `SlantedFont` and `BoldSlantedFont`
being specified in a `.fontspec` file.
* Fix regression with `unicode-math` related log files showing the wrong
NFSS-based font ‘identifier’.
## v2.7g (2020/01/26)
* Fix regression that broke changing the default encoding after `fontspec` was loaded
(e.g., to use legacy fonts by default but use a `fontspec` font occassionally).
* Fix bug exhibited in `polyglossia` and perhaps elsewhere when `Script` is set without
a corresponding `Language`.
* Use `\familydefault` instead of `\rmdefault` when calculating scaling parameters in
`Scale=MatchLowercase` and `Scale=MatchUppercase`.
## v2.7f (2020/01/24)
* Rename font feature `Letters=Uppercase` to `Style=Uppercase`, as this feature does
not generally affect the letters themselves, only symbols and accents.
The old name will be retained for the time being.
* Rename `Style=TitlingCaps` to `Style=Titling`.
* Track changes in both LaTeX2e and `expl3`.
* Fix long-standing (but never noticed?) bug that successive `\addfontfeatures`
would overwrite previous ones when using `UprightFeatures={...}` or similar.
Now the ‘`UprightFeatures`’ are accumulated.
* Remove AAT font examples from the documentation — support for many AAT fonts now
appears broken with latest versions of macOS.
## v2.7e (2020/01/09)
* Rename for `Renderer=HarfBuzz` (the old `Harfbuzz` name is kept for compatibility)
* Track upcoming changes in LaTeX2e release for 2020.
* Remove/reword some out-of-date documentation.
* Remove entirely the patches for 3rd party verbatim packages as `\verbvisiblespace`
has now been offered by the kernel for a year.
## v2.7d (2019/10/19)
* Allow the user to manually change `\rmdefault`, `\sfdefault`, `\ttdefault`
if desired. Note this could cause problems if the `fontspec` encoding does not
match the encoding of the specified families.
* Additional optional argument for `\EncodingCommand`.
* Suppress spurious warnings for `HyphenChar` feature in XeLaTeX.
* Add `Ligatures=TeXOff` even though it's not a real OpenType feature.
(Functionally equivalent to `Ligatures=TeXReset`.)
* New scripts definitions to match OpenType 1.8.3 (thanks Werner!).
* Documentation changes for `Numbers=Arabic`, `HypenChar=None` for `\ttfamily`.
* Documentation fixes (thanks `muzimuzhi`!).
* Prepare for `FakeBold` being available in `luaotfload` (thanks Khaled!).
* Bug fix for doubled + symbol when setting `tlig` feature in LuaTeX.
* Bug fix for Harfbuzz use. (Support still very minimal I'm afraid.)
## v2.7c (2019/03/15)
* Two optimisations reduce time for font definitions with a large number of
`FontFace` options. Thanks to Bob Tennent for the test file and bringing
the problem to my attention.
## v2.7b (2019/02/12)
* Fix regression in loading `Language=Turkish`. This now allows users to define more
than one OpenType tag when defining a language name, where the first tag found is
the one selected for the font. E.g.,
\newfontlanguage{Turkish}{TRK,TUR}
when selected, this first checks for the existance of the TRK language tag, and if
not found then checks for the TUR language tag to use if available.
* Add new `Renderer` options for LuaTeX that enable the HarfBuzz engine. These only
work running under `luahbtex` and are currently experimental. The new options are
`Harfbuzz`, `OpenType`, `AAT`, and `Graphite`.
* Always try to remove ‘clashing’ font features inside `\addfontfeatures` even in
cases when the requested font feature doesn't exist. E.g., now if a font is loaded
with `Numbers=OldStyle` and *doesn't have* `Numbers=Lining`, requesting the latter
will still reset the former.
* Add `pxfonts`, `txfonts`, `newpxmath`, `newtxmath`, `mtpro2` to the list
of packages that automatically invoke `no-math`.
* Add `\providefontfamily`, `\setfontface`, `\renewfontface`, and `\providefontface`.
* Add local/global distinction with `\fontspec_(g)set_family:Nnn` and `\fontspec_(g)set_fontface:NNnn`.
## v2.7a (2019/01/25)
* One last (?!) fix for recent regression (!!). I am not getting enough sleep at the moment and it is too hot.
* Add `LocalForms=On/Off/Reset` to control the `locl` OpenType tag.
* Reorganise some documentation.
* Remove redundant redefinition of `\-` which is nowadays defined correctly by the LaTeX2e kernel.
* Add code to remove the patching of verbatim commands and environments when the new
`\verbvisiblespace` command is defined in a future version of LaTeX2e.
## v2.7 (2019/01/24)
* Add new `ScaleAgain` feature for compounding scale factors.
(This is largely to support `unicode-math` but may be useful by others.)
* `\oldstylenums` no longer overwritten if `textcomp` loaded after `fontspec`.
* More fixes for recent regressions (sorry!).
## v2.6l (2019/01/18)
* REALLY fix crash when loading fonts that are missing a requested script.
* Lots of internal logic changes for what should have been an easy fix :(
## v2.6k (2019/01/16)
* Fix crash when loading fonts that are missing a requested script.
## v2.6j (2019/01/10)
* Re-sync with `expl3` for deprecated commands.
* Added support for `\hbar` if anyone is relying on `fontspec` to emulate legacy maths.
## v2.6i (2018/08/02)
* Emergency bug-fix -- a one-char typo broke loading of bold fonts!
* Some minor updates to the docs regarding “family names” of fonts.
* Using `\defaultfontfeatures` to specify a font face by a custom name can now use
`Font=` to specify the filename.
## v2.6h (2018/07/30)
* `expl3` internals updated so loading `expl3` with the `check-declarations` option will run without error.
* Fix bug with `FontFace` in which spaces weren't being ignored.
## v2.6g (2017-11-09)
* Bugfix for clash introduced with last version. When loading `babel`
before `fontspec` the following error arose:
! Control sequence \latinencoding already defined.
## v2.6f (2017-11-05)
* Fix loading of Graphite fonts and add a little documentation (a better interface is needed, though)
* Correct and simplify some internal code that fixes a bug in the way some fonts are displayed in `\tracingoutput` mode.
* This also fixes an obscure bug using the API in which a query for a selected font feature
would test against the upright font in the current family regardless of the face/shape actually in use.
* This package now complies with the `expl3` option `check-declarations`.
## v2.6e (2017/09/22)
* Re-enable use of `HyphenChar=None` in LuaLaTeX. (Hyphenation and font choice are
decoupled in LuaTeX, except for this one setting.)
* Some internal changes needed by `unicode-math` to fix some cross-over code.
## v2.6d (2017/08/14)
* Update Scripts to Unicode 1.8.2 (thanks Werner)
* Remove `HyphenChar` feature when running LuaTeX — use `\prehyphenchar` LuaTeX primitive instead.
* Rewrite test suite so that automated testing actually functions correctly and automatically. Thanks to Joseph for introducing me to Travis CI.
## v2.6c (2017/07/23)
* Emergency bug-fix.
## v2.6b (2017/07/16)
* Fix conflict with Polyglossia and `Scale=MatchLowercase`.
* New feature `IgnoreFontspecFile` to avoid loading the `.fontspec` file for a font.
* Fix regression with `\fontspec_if_feature:nTF`
(which broke `realscripts`, oops — must improve my test suite)
## v2.6a (2017/03/31)
* Fix crashing bug with `..Reset` and `ResetAll` keys.
* Fix crashing bug with `\newfontface`.
## v2.6 (2017/02/12)
* Change the new behaviour of `\emph` (and `\emfontdeclare`) to act only on the NFSS font shape; using the series as well was too fragile.
* Add `\strong` as the "weight" analogy to `\emph`. This will need some extra syntactic sugar from `fontspec` before it becomes truly useful.
* Add `Numbers=Tabular` alias for `Numbers=Monospaced`.
* Fix occasional bug with "chained" keyval choices such as `Numbers={Lining,Proportional}` in which only the first choice would be recognised.
* Fix interaction with `RawFeature` and "proper" `fontspec` features.
* Fix regression in which `C:\...` file paths in Windows couldn't be used.
* Fix regression in XeTeX in which `Ligatures=TeX` overrode `Mapping=..` regardless of where the former was declared in the feature list.
* Fix bug (sorry!) in `\newopentypefeature`.
* Improve monospace font in documentation.
* N.B. There is currently a known issue with TTC fonts and LuaTeX; currently they cannot be loaded through the `fontspec` interface, but this issue should soon be addressed by the `luaotfload` package.
## v2.5d (2017/01/24) "oops"
* Add `\fontspec_if_small_caps:TF`
* Fix bug in `\emph` (!!)
## v2.5c (2017/01/20) "Christmas 2016 release"
* `TU` font encoding now default, with encoding files provided by the kernel.
* Experimental interface added for customising encodings.
* Add feature `Ornament=`*n* corresponding to OpenType feature `+ornm=`*n*.
* Add feature `FontIndex=`*n* to support TrueType Collection (TTC) files.
* Nested `\emph` is now much smarter and will cleverly nest even if manual font changes are made.
* Tries to resolve situations when font features clash.
E.g., `Numbers={Uppercase,Lowercase}` will define only `+onum` rather than the previous behaviour of `+lnum;+onum` to let the engine sort things out. Coverage may still be preliminary.
* Add API function `\fontspec_if_current_feature:nTF` for querying selected features based on their OpenType tag.
* Add user function `\IfFontFeatureActiveTF` for querying selected features based on their `fontspec` specification.
* All "tag-based" OpenType features are now provided in `Feat`/`FeatOff`/`FeatReset` forms to disable and reset them.
* `ResetAll` provided for all "tag-based" OpenType feature keys. (E.g., `Ligatures=ResetAll`.)
* Big table of OpenType feature tags to help cross-reference which fontspec feature (if any) corresponds to which OpenType feature.
* Bug fixed for `Script` selection.
## v2.5b (2016/05/14) "More bugs" (somehow never released)
* Fixed bug with garbage text printed in certain "verbatim" situations under LuaTeX.
* Improve interaction between optical sizes and small caps.
* Remove documentation for `FeatureFile`, since this is no longer supported under LuaLaTeX
(there are other methods to perform the same thing, but no "easy" user interface that `fontspec` can provide at this stage).
* Fix regression causing an error message if `fontspec` loaded before `\documentclass'.
## v2.5a (2016/02/01) "Bugs fixed"
* Rather embarrassing bug fix! (`unicode-math` was broken.)
* Remember to add the `fontspec.cfg` file to the distribution.
* Remove `+trep` from `Ligatures=TeX` (no longer necessary).
* Add some basic tests using `l3build`; more to come.
* Simplify some internal Lua code and package loading code.
## v2.5 (2016/01/30) "TL2016 release"
* Provide a new Unicode font encoding ("TU") to replace EU1/EU2 and xunicode.
* Activate with package option `[tuenc]'; once it becomes the default (later this year), `[euenc]` option will revert to the old behaviour.
* New command `\emfontdeclare` for defining font shapes when arbitrarily nesting the `\emph` command.
* Allow slanted small caps and better internal methods for "combining" font shapes; this fixes a few bugs.
* Incorporate "new" font script tags for Indic fonts. E.g., when selecting `Script=Bengali`, fontspec will first query the font for the `bng2` OpenType script, and if not found select `beng`.
* Restrict some font features from being able to be used within `\addfontfeatures` that were causing some font-loading confusion.
* Fixed behaviour in which `\baselineskip` and `\f@size` would (possibly) change values after loading the packge.
* Remove copy of `fixltx2e`'s code for footnote symbols; handled by LaTeX2e now.
* Deprecate `ExternalLocation` for the simpler (and identical) `Path` option.
* Improvement to some warnings/info messages.
* Improve structure of code.
## v2.4e (2015/09/24)
* Allow `[Path=...]` to be specified for individual font faces.
* Continue to normalise naming with expl3. (Ongoing.)
## v2.4d (2015/07/22)
* Rename an internal expl3 function or two.
## v2.4c (2015/03/14)
* v2.4b was never released, sorry!
* This time *really* fix `\@fnsymbol` and avoid overwriting it if already fixed.
* Fix "`Renderer=Graphite`" (off-by-one error).
* Fix some edge cases for `\aliasfontfeature`.
## v2.4b (2014/08/23)
* Improve backwards compatibility w.r.t. recent argument order change;
specifically, if an optional argument is presented before the font name
then avoid looking for one afterwards.
* Fix \@fnsymbol; it was defined as a \protected macro, where in fact its internal text-or-math switch needed to be instead.
* No longer lowercase fontnames internally; this fixes a bug with loading
mixed-case ".fontspec" files.
* Fixed some documentation typos/inconsistencies related to recent changes.
## v2.4a (2014/06/21)
* No longer load fixltx2e.sty -- this package should really be loaded before \documentclass.
* Avoid deprecated l3fp code.
* A couple of bugs introduced with v2.4 fixed.
## v2.4 (2014/06/01)
* Significant change to the user interface: instead of `\setmainfont[features]{font}`, you now write `\setmainfont{font}[features]`.
Backwards compatibility is of course preserved.
The reason for this change is to improve the visual comprehension of the font loading syntax with large numbers of font features.
* Defaults for symbolic font families like this can now be specified with
\defaultfontfeatures[\rmfamily]{...}
or
\defaultfontfeatures[\headingsfont]{...}
\newfontfamily\headingsfont{...}
* New `PunctuationSpace=WordSpace` and `PunctuationSpace=TwiceWordSpace` settings, intended for monospaced fonts; these force the space after a period to be exactly one or two spaces wide, respectively, which preserves character alignment across lines.
* The features above now allow changes to the default settings:
* `Ligatures=TeX` is enabled by default with `\setmainfont` and `\setsansfont`.
* `WordSpace={1,0,0}` and `PunctuationSpace=WordSpace` are now enabled by default for `\setmonofont` to produce better monospaced results.
* (These can be adjusted by created your own `fontspec.cfg` file.)
* `SizeFeatures` can now be nested inside `ItalicFeatures` (etc.) and behaves correctly. This has been a very long overdue bug!
* New feature `NFSSFamily=ABC` to set the NFSS family of a font to “`ABC`”. Useful
when other packages use the `\fontfamily{ABC}\selectfont` interface.
* New feature `FontFace = {series}{shape}{font}` allows a font face to be loaded with a specific NFSS font series and font shape.
A more verbose syntax allows arbitrary font features as well (and this also plays nicely with `SizeFeatures`):
\fontspec{myfont.otf}[
FontFace = {b}{ui}{Font = myfont-bui.otf, <features>} ,
]
The code above, for example, will allow a bold upright italic font to be selected using the standard NFSS interface: `\fontseries{b}\fontshape{ui}\selectfont`.
* `\defaultfontfeatures+` (note the `+`) can now be used to append to the default font feature set.
* Setting the `SmallCapsFont` using the `*`-replacement notation has been improved/fixed.
## v2.3c (2013/05/20)
* Compatbility with luaotfload 2013/05/20 2.2c, support for older version
removed.
## v2.3b (2013/05/12)
* Compatibility with new (and future) version of luaotfload
## v2.3a (2013/03/16)
* Bug fix update to retain compatibility with new expl3
## v2.3 (2013/02/25)
* Add support for per-font options in `\defaultfontfeatures`
* Add support for `<fontname>.fontspec` per-font configuration files
* Keep up-to-date with expl3 changes
## v2.2b (2012/05/06) "TL2012 version"
* Fix error with AutoFakeSlant/Bold (#113) and when used with external fonts (#128)
* Add warning when using FakeBold in LuaLaTeX, where it's not supported
* Fix slshape misassignment introduced in v2.2
* Allow fontspec to be loaded before \documentclass
(or rather fix the regression that broke this)
* Avoid using the calc package now that it's no longer loaded by expl3
* Allow multiple values to StylisticSet and Alternate font options
## v2.2a (2011/09/14)
* Bug fix: improve backwards compatibility for packages that use old
fontspec internals such as mathspec.
## v2.2 (2011/09/13)
* Support alternate selections in CharacterVariant (cvxx in OpenType)
using new syntax `[CharacterVariant=5:2]`.
* Add `fontspec`-compatible `\oldstylenums` and `\liningnums` commands.
* New programmer's function `\fontspec_set_fontface:NNnn` (for use when
`\zf@basefont` might previously have been queried).
* Log file output is slightly tidier.
* Some old lingering bugs squashed:
- Small caps font selection was broken in some cases.
(Thanks Enrico Gregorio.)
- Fonts loaded by filename with under-specified shapes threw an error
(e.g., asking explicitly for bold but not italic).
(Thanks Vafa Khalighi.)
* Documentation improvements largely due to Markus Böhning.
* Many internal changes, among which:
- `xkeyval` package no longer used for option processing;
`expl3`'s `l3keys` used instead.
This allows `fontspec` to be loaded before `\documentclass`
(thanks Heiko Oberdiek for reporting the issue)
and fixes a potential conflict with the `preview` package
(thanks again Vafa).
- Internal names changed; avoid "\zf@basefont", "\zf@family", etc.
from now on -- there are public interfaces now to get access to the
same information
- Update `expl3` support to latest CTAN version.
## v2.1g (2011/08/02)
* No longer uses the binhex package, avoiding some name clashes with TIPA
## v2.1f (2011/02/26)
* Finally add a real error message when a font cannot be found!
* Add "Letters=Random" feature.
* Fix bug in which "Unknown feature `'..." warnings
were shown in the log file.
* Some small documentation improvements.
## v2.1e (2010/11/17)
* Internal changes for luatexbase v0.3.
## v2.1d (2010/11/07)
* Bug fix when \itdefault is "sl" rather than "it".
E.g., when using the "slides" class.
* Minor internal changes, including merging some code from unicode-math.
## v2.1c (2010/10/13)
* New documentation for defining custom kerning and ligatures
when using LuaLaTeX.
* Fix bug when defining bold italic fonts by filename.
* Avoid infinite loop when the Latin script is requested for a font
that does not contain it. TODO: a suitable fallback script should be
chosen; right now we just ignore the script selection.
## v2.1b (2010/09/29)
* Fix for bug introduced in the last release:
small caps weren't being automatically selected correctly
## v2.1a (2010/09/27)
* Fix for colours bug introduced in the last update
* Fix for for bad interaction with LuaLaTeX and fallback fonts
(such as using \slshape when no slanted font specified)
* Behaviour/messaging improvement when scripts/languages are requested
that do not exist in the font
* Fix bug with detecting font features/scripts in some cases with:
- `\fontspec_if_feature:n(TF)`
- `\fontspec_if_language:n(TF)`
- `\fontspec_if_current_script:n(TF)`
- `\fontspec_if_current_language:n(TF)`
* Some messages in the log file are improved
* Code for "visible space" fixed for LuaLaTeX use
* Lots of internal changes to bring the implementation closer
to being "native expl3".
## v2.1 (2010/09/19)
* Now load xunicode internally for consistent behaviour in
XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
* Font commands now include \fontencoding internally, easing their
use together with legacy TeX fonts.
* Colour & Opacity now behave a little better.
* Nested emphasis with \emph now also occurs inside a "slanted" shape.
* Some compatibility commands/options added that were removed.
in the transition to v2.
* Bug fix for a problem triggered after counters got too high.
## v2.0c (2010/08/01)
Bug fix and documentation tune-up.
* Significant bug fix reported simultaneously by Enrico Gregorio and
Don Hosek.
* Many documentation improvements and additions due to David Perry.
* Documentation typo thanks to John McChesney-Young
## v2.0b (2010/07/14)
*Actually* the final release before TeX Live 2010.
* Improved examples in the documentation, with fewer proprietary fonts
* All font examples are included as separate images on CTAN, so the
manual can be compiled (with pdfLaTeX) by anyone, anywhere
* LuaLaTeX fixes for the StylisticSet and Annotation features
* New OpenType feature `CharacterVariant` now supported
* Minor change: `Ligatures=Historical` is now `Ligatures=Historic` for consistency
## v2.0a (2010/07/11)
Final release before TeX Live 2010.
* Bug fix for the Language setting being ignored
* Add programmer's command `\fontspec_glyph_if_exist:NnTF`
* Many documentation improvements, especially for LuaTeX features
`FeatureFile=...` and `Numbers=Arabic`.
* Add `Parsi` and `Persian` synonyms for `Language=Farsi`
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