Revision history for Perl extension Text::FIGlet and "working demos" in bin/
(figlet.pl, minifig.pl, charmap.pl, showfigfonts.pl)
2.19.4 Sun Aug 19 13h EST 2018
- Fix tests due to perl 5.28's bad breaking of ~~ scalarification
2.19.3 Fri Apr 19 23h EST 2013
- Change $VERSION to avoid MakeMaker mis-handling of v-strings.
- Skip Test 4 (POD) if no Test::More
- Fix Unicode (tests) and remove "deprecated" encoding pragma,
simplifying Font.pm
2.19.2 Mon Apr 01 23h EST 2013
- Repair canonicalization for -f(onts) given as absolute paths.
- Fix -m passing in figlet.pl to allow font default.
2.19.1 Mon Apr 01 21h EST 2013
- Updated FIGlet font repository URI.
- Excise wonky file path canonicalization, tests now run on Windows.
- Tweak whatis descriptions.
- Fix wrapping of Unicode character display in charmap.pl for perl 5.8+
2.19 Sun Mar 31 22h EST 2013
- Full kerning!
- Basic smushing support has been added. Universal smushing
(aka overlap) is used if any smush mode is specified.
- New Illuminated sub-class to use figfonts as accents in plain text.
- Add examples of various layout modes to documentation.
- Documentation clean-up.
- Fix rare quasi-bug in font file parsing exposed by bug #56588
- Document fix for use of caca2tlf misformatted TOIlet fonts.
- Fix bugs with list-context figification
- Original input string was appended to list
- Switch to Encode::decode en lieu of _utf8_on, keep _uf8_off
2.18 Sat Oct 10 04h EST 2009
- Tweaked code so that Font could process DOS formatted files in Un*x.
- Document Ransom in FIGlet.pm
- Alter Ransom->freeze to return a string rather than print to STDOUT.
- Better documentation of freeze.
- Added preliminary overlap implementation.
- Various small simplifications and corrections.
- Although -m=>'-0' is still accepted for fixed-width mode, -3 is the
new and preferred value. With this change, ordering modes by their
values results in a smooth progression of output modification.
2.17 Mon Oct 05 22h EST 2009
- Implemented Ransom font freezing
- Added support for -m=0 to Ransom
- Added tests to check Font smush modes -1, -0, 0
- Reworked tests for 5.005 support, no more monkeying with Makefile.PL
- Fixed 5.6.X failure from utf8 promotion code w/ Encode::compat sub
Everything should work in 5.00503, 5.6.2, 5.10.0 (linux)
2.16 Mon Oct 05 03h EST 2009
- Fixed bug introduced way back in 1.07, that caused newlines in -A
to be ignored, and added a test to catch future breakage.
- Fixed -v which broke for some fonts when I created own sum() for 5.005
- Minor performance tweaks, including removal of "require 5"
2.15 Sun Oct 04 19h EST 2009, forgot to hit submit on PAUSE
- Fixed long-standing oddity of extra whitespace in module -m=-1 output
vs. figlet(6) -W output due to off by one calculation error of widths
- Added -v support to Ransom
- Added Ransom support to base class
- Fixed premature wrapping due to the use of wide chars in glyphs.
- Re-placed rename(t/) in Makefile.PL to top so that tests work in
5.005 w/o manual fussing; was moved to please "make distclean"
2.14 Sat Oct 03 21h EST 2009
- Remove extraneous debug info from test 1-1
- Fixed hardblank bug resulting from unfortunate use of /o
Fonts w/ diff hardblank from 1st loaded font not rendered properly.
- Added development version of the new Ransom class for the creation
and use of composite fonts.
- Additional doc details regarding compressed fonts, and loading files.
- Fix example used in FIGlet.pm documentation to include scalar cast
- Add examples of post-processing from figlet(6) & noise from TODO
- Various small documentation tweaks
2.13 Tue Sep 29 02h EST 2009
- Apparently there are some undocumented changes in File::Spec's
behavior since 3.2501, test 1-1 ammended to accomodate this.
2.12 Sun Sep 27 20h EST 2009
- Fix _canonical + tests 1-1 & 1-2 to really check Windows paths
2.11 Sun Sep 27 19h EST 2009
- Updated showfigfonts to also display TOIlet fonts.
- Made non-existent font file messages clearer,
IO::Uncompress:Unzip doesn't play well with others.
- Added adhesive strip to prevent premature wrapping of glyphs made
with widechars in perls natively supporting UTF-8.
- Switched errors to cluck and confess.
- More generic handling of file paths (bug #49936); everything is UN*X
- Avoid "called too early to check prototype" warning.
- Switch back from readline() to waka-waka for 5.005
- Remove modern idioms from figlet for 5.005
- Return figify returns utf8 string(s) where appropriate,
removing the need for the user to binmode their output channel.
2.10 Wed Jan 21 02:35 EST 2009
- Added support for zipped fonts if IO::Uncompress::Unzip is available.
- Provisional support for TOIlet fonts
- Fixed a bug uncovered while playing with circle.tlf above
- More thorough testing: -E deutsch mapped characters, -X, -x
- Added missing 5.005 test.pl to MANIFEST
2.04 Tue Jan 20 02:04 EST 2009
- Fixed bugs in figlet's upper.flc which prevented a-macron from being
transliterated to A-macron; and perhaps problems for remaining chars.
- Fixed test #2 to work on Windows; File::Spec didn't remove trailing /
- Added testing support for 5.005 in an underhanded way
- Added work-around to upper.flc for a bug in perl 5.6.1 & 5.6.2
- Added memory conservation options
- Fix subtle, previously invisible bug in -D that bubbled up w/ -U=>0
- Clarify documentation
- Major speed-up (up to 4x) for loading of sparse fonts.
2.03 Sun Jan 4 21:14 EST 2009
- Fix example used in (Font.pm) documentation to include scalar cast
- Further updates to Unicode documentation, and verify 5.005 works.
2.02 Sun Jan 4 17:19 EST 2009
- Rework tests
- Fixed -D, which broke when perl started randomizing hash key
retrieval order for security
- Fix-up and clarify Unicode support for 5.6
2.01 Fri Jan 2 13:54:35 EST 2009
- Fixed reversed test which caused "Out of memory during extend array"
in perl 5.8.5+, then completely removed the test as unnecessary :-P
- Amended documentation to include notes about negative characters.
- Added missing release date for 2.00
- Fixed bin/ tools to contend with context awareness of figify
- Remove leading zero padding on ASCII/ANSI characters codes in
charmap.pl since codes aren't octal. Also nixed excess \s+ for -chars
2.00 Thu Jan 1 22:48 EST 2009
- figify is now context sensitive, and can return a string or array
- Fixed no wrap (-w=>-1)
- Fixed typo in SYNOPSIS
- Fixed parser problem preventing unfortunately formatted fonts
such as poison from being used
1.07 UNRELEASED
- Added support for control files, significant documentation rewrite
mayhem ensued
- Added Unicode support
- Added missing release dates for 1.05 and 1.06
(Not that they're accurate as my clock was majorly skewed,
which wasn't very nice to distribute)
- Added an explicit licencse
- Removed REVISION in favor of "use Module VERSION"
- Removed a dependency on $/ for parsing, which was incorrect anyways
- Fixed up to run clean under -w
- Fixed a few minor bugs
- Fixed various bits to be (more) compliant with the specifications
for FIGdrivers L<figfont.txt>
- Fixed up package layout and Makefile.PL for script installation
- Fixed figlet.pl -I1 issues
1.06 Fri Feb 15 09:13:59 UTC 2002
- Renamed Changes CHANGES
- Touched up man pages, added (undocumented) support for
-h and --help to the scripts
- Major cleanup, fixed many translucent bugs,
it's amazing if it was even "working" ;-)
- Fixed a bug that failed on relative paths to fonts with -f
- Added showfigfonts.pl utility,
it's exposes the slowness of loading fonts
(working on it, thangs wog and jryan)
- Fixed extended character support,
subsequently reducing memory requirements (in a fashion)
- Deprecated -demo, use the charmap.pl utility instead
- Added $REVISION to figlet.pl and minifig.pl
- Modified switch parsing in figlet.pl and minifig.pl,
perl -s is no longer used. Support for standard figlet switch
syntax was added so now you can say -m0 or -m=0 or -m 0.
Of course this means you can say things like -m-0 and -m -0
which may look a little odd.
- Made figlet.pl and minifig.pl use strict
- Fixed -w=1, I believe this was broken in 1.04 when I kludged
wrapping. I also did some work on wrapping in general and
there should be no more issues.
1.05 Fri Dec 1 19:04:12 UTC 2001
- Added -m modes 0 (kerning) and -2 (font defined)
- Added -c, -l, -r, -x; justification
- Added -L, -R, -X; orientation
- Added -E
- Fixed -f to allow absolute path
- Documentation, had neglected to remove -F and other cleanup
- Synced figlet.pl and minifig.pl
- Updated minifig.HOWTO
- Upgraded figlet.pl/minifig.pl version to 2.1,
I'm told this more appropriate based upon current
white-space handling in font files.
- Switched internal font structure to an array.
I'd avoided using an array for fear of allocating large
blocks of memory due to auto-vivification. But this
shouldn't even be a potential problem unless you're using
a font that defines extended characters sparsely.
This change increases performance because it avoids
the permutations limiting factor of hashes, and is
proportional to the text size.
-f mini -m 0 -A Hello #Hash
1.800u 0.020s 0:01.81 100.5% 0+0k 0+0io 253pf+0w
-f mini -m 0 -A Hello #Array
1.250u 0.050s 0:01.29 100.7% 0+0k 0+0io 251pf+0w
- Removed "- Better line wrapping" from TODO for 1.04.
Considered done until reported broken (See 1.04 below)
1.04 Thu Nov 30 01:37:57 GMT 2000
- Decided to fix a bug where if you supplied -d and
an absolute path for -f, you got what you deserved.
But after eating my own dog food (there's a
Webmin module that uses this now... Tastes great!
Totally useless! :-), I found it was rather annoying.
- Fixed -w, it is now much smarter and wraps whole words
where applicable en lieu of letters. It is still
conceivable that the output may overrun the requested
outputwidth. If you run into this *LET ME KNOW*
(text w/formatting, font), please. So I can determine
if it's worth opening that can of worms.
- Seems I can't quite get this right...
I bumped the VERSION to 1.03 in minifig.pl but
FIGlet.pm was left at 1.02. Also neglected to increment
the figlet.pl VERSION. And I left the timestamp off of
the 1.03 entry below.
- Documented -help, added usage statement
- Added smush mode
-F has been fixed and is now smush mode -0
1.03 Sun Nov 12 20:07 GMT 2000
- Version bumped to 1.03, 0.02 had $VERSION set to 1.02
- Added minifig.pl, a self contained figlet
- Added -help (it displays the built-in pod)
- Added missing URLs in FILES to figlet.pl
- Added -D German support
- Created -F, fixed width
- Created -demo (figlet.pl/minifig.pl)
- Cleaned and clarified pod
1.02 Sat Nov 11 15:54:02 EST 2000
- initial release