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    Update to Iosevka Comfy version 1.4.0 · 07f00fa9
    Protesilaos Stavrou authored
    - All fonts are now available in two more weights: medium and
      semibold.  Use them to refine your interfaces.  This is in response to
      the request for a medium weight made by madjxatw in issue 8 on the
      GitHub mirror: <https://github.com/protesilaos/iosevka-comfy/issues/8>.
    
    - Large portions of the build instructions have been rewritten to (i)
      track the numerous and non-trivial breaking changes made by upstream
      Iosevka and (ii) preserve the style of Iosevka Comfy.
    
    - The latin long S (ſ) and the Latin sharp S, else Eszett (ß), are now
      supported by Iosevka Comfy.  Details of shape have been considered,
      such that the reader does not conflate those characters with similar
      ones (e.g. the sharp S with a Greek beta, an ampersand, or an 8).
    
    - The slanted version of the ampersand looks the same as its upright
      counterpart.  This is a deviation from the previous version, where
      this character looked like a flipped 3 with a flat top: I had
      introduced that style by mistake and did not want to rebuild
      everything just for it (rebuilding fonts is an expensive
      operation---I spent 8 hours this time).
    
    - Thanks to Raymond Ko for sending a patch to make Iosevka Comfy build
      on top of Iosevka version 26.3.1.  I installed it to register the
      contribution in Git, though I eventually wrote the aforementioned
      changes from scratch as the current development of Iosevka has more
      breaking changes (the version was updated to 27.1.0 and more changes
      were made on top).  It was easier to review all code points, than to
      assume some as fixed.  Raymond send the patch on the mailing list:
      <https://lists.sr.ht/~protesilaos/general-issues/patches/44816>.
    
    As a note for future users, I am always keeping track of upstream
    Iosevka, though I do not want to rebuild Iosevka Comfy too frequently.
    Upstream has a policy of changing the code points practically every
    few weeks, which then requires hours or days of testing on my end just
    to keep Iosevka Comfy the same.  If you try to build Iosevka Comfy
    from source, make sure to use the commit in iosevka.git specified in
    my project's README.md, as of this writing: this is the current
    working version for me.  Future versions of iosevka.git will probably
    contain breaking changes.  I will eventually adapt to them.
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