diff --git a/docs/CHANGES b/docs/CHANGES index da73efb7c..68bbec217 100644 --- a/docs/CHANGES +++ b/docs/CHANGES @@ -8,6 +8,22 @@ CHANGES BETWEEN 2.13.3 and 2.13.4 (2025-Mmm-DD) flag was always meant to suppress the bitmap strikes in favor of outlines, not to ban them completely. + - The auto-hinter got new abilities. + + . It can now better separate diacritic glyphs from base glyphs at + small sizes by artificially moving diacritics up (or down) if + necessary. + + . Tilde accent glyphs get vertically stretched at small sizes so + that they don't degenerate to horizontal lines. + + Both features use a database, which currently has entries for + Unicode characters lower than U+0180. FreeType needs to access or + construct a proper Unicode character map from a given font to make + this work. + + This was Craig White's GSoC 2023 project. + III. MISCELLANEOUS @@ -15,7 +31,7 @@ CHANGES BETWEEN 2.13.3 and 2.13.4 (2025-Mmm-DD) modern 64-bit platforms as a result of better handling of fixed- point multiplication. - - The BDF driver now loads fonts 75% faster. + - The BDF driver now loads fonts 75% faster. ======================================================================