Changelog

Added fonts_as_import() to create stylesheet urls for embedding of fonts in HTML and SVG
Added two C-level functions for getting glyph outline and bitmap information

Fix compilation on macOS when the obj-c++ compiler fails to pick up the right obj-c++ version (#122)
add_fonts() now supports urls as well as file paths (#124)

Fix a memory issue when adding new fonts with add_fonts()
Default to not downloading woff2 files from Google Fonts since it is poorly supported on many systems
Fixed a bug in get_from_font_squirrel() where the font wasn’t placed in the user specified location

Providing the font name as the family should now result in better matching
Improved the fallback options for Windows so that as many scripts are now covered
Add infrastructure to add uninstalled font files to the search path used for font matching
Add facilities to download and register fonts from web repositories such as Google Fonts and Font Squirrel
Add require_font() that does it’s best to ensure that a given font is available after being called.
Added functions for extracting outline and raster representation of glyphs

match_fonts() have been added as a vectorized and generalized version of match_font(). In the process match_font() has been deprecated in favour of match_fonts()
Two internal functions for converting weight and width names to integers have been exported
Fix a segfault on macOS when the system encounters a corrupted font collection (#113)

Use Courier New as default mono font on macOS instead of Courier to avoid issues between FreeType and Courier (#105)

Provide a fallback solution to the setup of the CRAN windows builder so that fonts can be discovered (#87)

Avoid warning when including the systemfonts header (#77)
Fix size selection of non-scalable fonts when the requested size is bigger than the available
Fix compilation bug when systemfont is used in C packages (#76)

Fix a bug in font matching on Windows when matching monospace fonts
Fix a bug in reset_font_cache() on mac that would cause a system crash if the cache was not filled in advance (#67)

Added get_cached_face() so that other packages might retrieve FT_Face objects from the cache.
Adapted cpp11
Add infrastructure for setting OpenType font features on a registered font with either register_font() or the new register_variant(), along with the font_feature() function.

Add string_widths_dev() and string_metrics_dev() to request the current graphic device for string widths and metrics.
Add system for registering non-system fonts for look-up.
systemfonts will now detect user-installed fonts on Windows (possible after the 1806 update)
Font lookup is now cached for faster performance. The caching will get flushed when new fonts are added to the registry, or manually with reset_font_cache()
Systemfonts now provide querying of font information with font_info() and glyph_info()
Basic string shaping is now provided with shape_string()
Line width calculation is now available with string_width() (ignores presence of newlines, use shape_string() for more complicated strings)
Added str_split_emoji() for splitting of strings into substrings of emoji and non-emoji glyphs
Provide a header file for easy use from within C in other packages
Fix memory management issues on Mac
Fix handling of erroneous font files on windows

First version with match_font() and system_fonts() capabilities. More to come.
Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.

systemfonts 1.2.32025-04-30