Nov. 1997: alpha.
  Original version by Mark Leisher.

14 Feb. 1998: beta1.
  Quite usable.  Handles endianness.  Subsetting support, matrix
  support somewhat incorrect.  On-the-fly reencoding.

16 Feb. 1998: beta1a.
  Corrected a few bugs in the matrix support.  Cleaned the code.

28 Feb. 1998: beta1b.
  Matrix support completed.  Do The Right Thing when a font has no
  glyphs.  Handle microsoft-symbol encoding.  Corrected a bug with the
  first glyph in a font.

6 Mar. 1998: beta1c.
  Completed support for the ISO 8859 series.  Added support for
  Macintosh fonts.

30 Mar. 1998: beta1d
  Fixed the bug with metrics when linking with the X server.

15 Apr. 1998: beta1e
  Fixed a bug with duplicating characters.  Added sample fonts.dir.

22 May 1998: beta1f
  Fixed a sign bug with UNDERLINE_POSITION.  Added `koi8-u'.  Changed
  `iso10646-0' to `iso10646-1'.

31 May 1998: beta1g
  Fixed a bug when xf==0; this used to cause SIGSEGV crashes under
  some circumstances.  Fixed a memory leak on failure to load a font.
  Fixed a minor bug with the `attributes' field.  Corrected
  ITALIC_ANGLE.

8 Jul. 1998: beta1h
  Moved to FreeType 1.1, included and Imakefiled it.  Taught the Type 1
  and Speedo backends about ISO 8859-2.  Added ISO 8859-15, koi8-ru
  and koi8-uni.

31 Jul. 1998: 1.0
  Fixed couple of minor typos.

25 Aug. 1998: 1.0.1
  Fixed two bugs with `attributes'.  Inserted protection against
  broken type 4 cmaps.

2 Oct. 1998: 1.0.2
  Changed the wording of the license, to make Sunsite happy.
  Fixed a minor bug with resizing the encoding vector, and one with
  the ISO 8859-3 encoding.  Included code for loading new encodings at
  runtime.  Included a bunch of non-standard encodings.

15 Nov 1998: 1.0.3pre1
  Moved to FreeType1.2pre2.  Fixed a bug with the koi8-* encodings.
  Added koi8-u.  Separated the new encodings code into generic and
  TrueType-specific code.  Modified the Type 1 and Speedo backends to
  use it.

14 Jan 1999: 1.0.3
  Moved to FreeType-1.2.  Added the `ALIAS' keyword to encoding files.

15 Feb 1999: 1.0.3 patch 1
  Fixed wrong assignment in KOI8-U.

15 Feb 1999: beta1.1.1
  Complete rewrite of the TrueType backend.  Lazy rasterisation,
  charcell optimisation, sharing of glyph and face data.

10 Mar 1999: beta1.1.2
  Fixed one double free() and two memory leaks.  Made checks for
  ranges in XLFD name.

29 Mar 1999: beta1.1.3
  Reworked the encodings parser somewhat, added a range declaration
  and support for matrix fonts.  Fixed treatment of the default glyph
  for the somewhat pathological case when a cmap maps 0 to a glyph
  different from 0.

22 Mar 1999: beta1.1.4
  Fixed handling of ranges.  Fixed metric computation for rotated
  fonts.  Enforced spacing for monospaced fonts.  Fixed a bug in the
  encodings parser.

22 May 1999: beta1.1.5
  Fixed the encoding parser, which had a bug with `POSTSCRIPT'
  encodings, and added `identifyEncodingFile'.  Added the `-e' option
  to mkfontdir.

21 Jun 1999: 1.1.6
  Fixed a typo that prevented compilation on LP64 systems.  Repackaged
  the binaries to include the new `mkfontdir'.  Removed `beta' from
  the name.
