SVGFonts
Fonts from the SVG-Font format
Version on this page: | 1.8.0.1 |
LTS Haskell 22.36: | 1.8.0.1@rev:1 |
Stackage Nightly 2024-10-04: | 1.8.0.1@rev:1 |
Latest on Hackage: | 1.8.0.1@rev:1 |
SVGFonts-1.8.0.1@sha256:66a29cebd825bdac6ed1da83bd3a310ba6e8db5d63d6511015d644b9a8ec48b8,3019
SVGFonts
Native font support for the Diagrams library. The SVG-Font format is easy to parse and was therefore chosen for a font library completely written in Haskell.
You can convert your own font to SVG with FontForge or use one of the SVG fonts included with the library.
Features
Complete implementation of the features that fontforge produces (but not the complete SVG format):
- Kerning (e.g. the two characters in “VA” have a shorter distance than in “VV”)
- Unicode
- Ligatures
- Text boxes with syntax highlighting
XML speed issues can be solved by trimming the svg file to only those characters that are used (or maybe binary xml one day)
Version 1.0 of this library supports texturing which would only make sense in a Diagrams Backend that does rasterization in Haskell.
Example
import Diagrams.Prelude
import Diagrams.Backend.SVG.CmdLine
import qualified Graphics.SVGFonts as F
main = do
font <- F.loadFont "/path/to/font.svg"
let
diagram :: Diagram B
diagram =
(F.drop_rect$ F.fit_height 22$ F.svgText def{F.textFont = font} "Hello World!")
# stroke # fc blue # lc blue # bg lightgrey # fillRule EvenOdd # showOrigin
mainWith diagram
Usage
Convert your favourite font (i.e. .ttf
) into a .svg
file with
fontforge (the menu item under “Save All”). If a font converted on
your own doesn’t work, try the repair options, and if this still
doesn’t work edit the file by hand or report an
issue. Remember that a
lot of fonts are not allowed to be distributed freely.
Porting to version 1.8
Version 1.8 of the library greatly improved the API but introduced a number of breaking changes.
Previously, functions provided by the library took a large TextOpts
options record and directly produced a diagrams Path
. For example,
it was common to see code like this:
text' font h s = (strokeP $ textSVG' (TextOpts font INSIDE_H KERN False h h) s)
# lw none # fc black
Compared to this, version 1.8:
- Introduces a new intermediate type
PathInRect
- Splits out width and height options into dedicated
combinators such as
fit_width
andfit_height
- There are also several new functions that allow specifying width and
height in different ways, such as
svgText_fitRect
andsvgText_fitRect_stretchySpace
.
The only things remaining in TextOpts
are options for the font,
spacing mode, and underline.
Here is an idiomatic way to translate the above example code into the new API:
text' font h s
= s
# svgText def { textFont = font }
# fit_height h
# set_envelope
# lw none # fc black
- We use the
svgText
function with a default options recorddef
, overriding thetextFont
field to set the font explicitly. - We then use the
fit_height
function to scale the resulting text so it has heighth
. This corresponds to our previous use ofINSIDE_H
. This is probably the most common mode, butfit_width
andsvgText_fitRect
also available. - Finally, we call
set_envelope
which converts aPathInRect
to aDiagram
, by stroking the text path and appropriately setting the envelope. - If you actually want an explicit
Path
instead of aDiagram
, you can calldrop_rect
instead ofset_envelope
. - Note that the old
textSVG'
function resulted in a centered local origin, whereas all the new API functions result in a local origin and the left end of the text baseline. If you need the text centered, you can of course callcenterXY
.
Changes
1.8.0.1 (1 Nov 2021)
- Include a migration guide for updating to version 1.8.
1.8 (15 Oct 2021)
Graphics.SVGFonts
andGraphics.SVGFonts.Text
have been greatly refactored and many of the names have changed. ThetextSVG
function is still provided for a bit of backwards compatibility.- New module
Graphics.SVGFonts.Wrap
for configurable text wrapping.
1.7.0.1-r2 (17 Sep 2021)
- Bump upper bounds to build with GHC 9.0 and
diagrams-core-1.5
.
1.7.0.1 (29 Jan 2019)
- Remove strange kerning values in
LinLibertineCut.svg
. (#29) - Remove non-ASCII character from
LinLibertine.svg
so users don’t have to worry about encoding/locale settings. (#30)
1.7 (9 May 2018)
- Fixed a bug (Fontforge seems to use SVG namespace for some time, which it didn’t before)
unsafePerformIO
removed- drop support for GHC 7.6
- Build with GHC-8.4
1.6.0.3 (25 September 2017)
- Fix link on Hackage page
1.6.0.2 (21 August 2017)
- Bug fix: don’t print blank line to stdout when there are no errors. (#23) Thanks to Tim Docker for the fix.
1.6.0.1 (27 October 2016)
- Allow
diagrams-core-1.4
- Allow
diagrams-lib-1.4
1.6 (8 August 2016)
- Performance improvement: port ReadPath to use attoparsec
- New
loadFont'
function, to read font data from an XmlSource - Export
Kern(..)
fromGraphics.SVGFonts.ReadFont
- New
Serialize
instances forFontData
andKern
1.5.0.1 (6 June 2016)
- allow
base-4.9
- allow
data-default-class-0.1
- test with GHC 8.0.1
1.5.0.0 (19 April 2015)
- Split functionality out of
ReadFont
, intoFonts
(built-in fonts) andText
(rendering text to Diagrams). textSVG'
andtextSVG_
now have the text as a separate argument, distinct fromTextOptions
.ReadFont
does not useunsafePerformIO
any more.unsafePerformIO
is now only used to load built-in fonts.
1.4.0.3 (2 June 2014)
- Allow
diagrams-lib-1.2
.
1.4.0.1 (25 November 2013)
- Bump
diagrams-lib
upper bound to< 1.1
.
1.4 (10 September 2013)
FontData
can now be written back to SVG usingmakeSvgFont
inside of theWriteFont
module. It is possible to only write back a specfic set of glyphs.- The SVG
font-face
element is now completely supported. This means all possible attributes are read and written back to it. Correct defaults are also set on non optional attributes. Some optional attributes are still required though, due to their use in font rendering. - The
ReadPath
module does not useunsafePerformIO
anymore.ReadFont
is now the only module with unsafe calls. - Minor bug fixes:
stemh
andstemv
are now optional attributes.
1.3.0.2 (14 August 2013)
- remove old comment causing Haddock build to fail
1.3.0.1 (12 August 2013)
- fix repo location in .cabal file
1.3: 9 August 2013
- A bunch of bug fixes, cleanup, and reorganization:
- Proper data type for
Kern
andFontData
instead of mega-tuples. - Fixed several
Prelude.read
error onfont-face
attributes. - Fixed wrong attribute names.
- Switched to
data-default-class
instead ofdata-default
.
- Proper data type for
- Require
diagrams-lib-0.7
.