Revision history for Perl extension Text::FIGlet and "working demos" in bin/
(figlet.pl, minifig.pl, charmap.pl, showfigfonts.pl)
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.
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