updated README and NEWS

NEWS

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
-dvisvgm-2.2.3 (2017-11-17)
-- updated brotli library
-- fixed potential memory issue
+dvisvgm-2.3 (2017-12-28)
+- added experimental support for ttfautohint
+- updated xxHash to version 0.6.4
+- added configuration option to set location of libkpathsea (GH bug #71)
+- some improvements of the build system
+
+dvisvgm-2.2.3 (2017-12-12)
+- updated the bundled brotli library to version 1.0.2
+- fixed a potential memory issue
 - some code and test improvements
 
 dvisvgm-2.2.2 (2017-11-17)

README

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
    font data in WOFF or TrueType format rather than as SVG. The FontForge
    library provides the required functions to create font files in these
    formats. A reduced version of the library is bundled with the dvisvgm
-   sources. It's also available at https://github.com/mgieseki/ff-woff.
+   sources.
 
  * FreeType 2 (http://www.freetype.org)
    This library is used to extract the glyph outlines from vector fonts
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ DEPENDENCIES
    Peter Selinger's bitmap tracing library is utilized to vectorize Metafont's
    bitmap output.
 
+ * ttfautohint (https://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint)
+   dvisvgm can optionally be built with ttfautohint support to replace the
+   autohinting functionality of FontForge. Since it's still an experimental
+   feature, ttfautohint support is disabled by default.
+   The development files required for Windows can be found at
+   https://github.com/mgieseki/ttfautohint-dll.
+
  * woff2 and brotli (https://github.com/google/woff2)
    These Google libraries are bundled with the dvisvgm sources. They are used
    to create WOFF2 from TrueType fonts.

README.md

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ _dvisvgm_ relies on the following free libraries:
   _dvisvgm_ can be built with optional WOFF support that allows to embed the font data
   in WOFF or TrueType format rather than as SVG. The FontForge library provides the required
   functions to create font files in these formats. A reduced version of the library is bundled
-  with the _dvisvgm_ sources. It's also available [here](https://github.com/mgieseki/ff-woff).
+  with the _dvisvgm_ sources.
 
 * [FreeType 2](http://www.freetype.org)  
   This library is used to extract the glyph outlines from vector fonts (PFB, OTF, TTF).
@@ -80,9 +80,14 @@ _dvisvgm_ relies on the following free libraries:
   Peter Selinger's bitmap tracing library is utilized to vectorize Metafont's
   bitmap output.
 
+* [ttfautohint](https://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint)  
+  _dvisvgm_ can optionally be built with ttfautohint support to replace the autohinting
+  functionality of FontForge. Since it's still an experimental feature, ttfautohint support
+  is disabled by default. To enable it, run `configure` with option `--with-ttfautohint`.
+
 * [woff2](https://github.com/google/woff2) and [brotli](https://github.com/google/brotli)  
   These Google libraries are bundled with the _dvisvgm_ sources. They are used
-  to create WOFF2 from TrueType fonts.
+  to create WOFF2 files from TrueType fonts.
 
 * [xxHash](https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash)  
   The xxHash library provides a fast hash algorithm. _dvisvgm_ uses it to create

vc/README

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ zlib:       http://zlib.net
 Additionally, the MiKTeX SDK is required:
 http://www.miktex.org/sdk
 
+If you want to build dvisvgm with ttfautohint support, the related
+development files as well as the ttfautohint DLL are needed. They are
+available from https://github.com/mgieseki/ttfautohint-dll.
+
 Unpack the MiKTeX SDK into the "vc" directory so that the new subfolder
 miktex-2.9.4106-sdk is created there.