updated installation instructions and changes.txt

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FontTools Version 1.0 beta ? (released ???)
- Switched XML parsers: use expat instead of xmlproc. Should be faster.
- Removed my UnicodeString object: I now require Python 2.0 or up, which
has unicode support built in.
- Removed assert in glypf table: redundant data at the end of the table
is now ignored instead of raising an error. Should become a warning.
- Fixed bug in hmtx/vmtx code that only occured if all advances were equal.
- Fixed subtle bug in TT instruction disassembler.
- Couple of fixes in 'post' table.
- Updated OS/2 table to latest spec.
FontTools Version 1.0 beta 1 (released August 10 2001)
- Reorganized the command line interface for ttDump.py and ttCompile.py,

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<UL>
<LI>
<B>Python</B>. The fresh versions as well as older versions (You need 1.5.1 or higher) can be obtained here:
<B>Python</B>. The fresh versions as well as older versions (You need 2.0 or higher) can be obtained here:
<A HREF="http://www.python.org/download/">http://www.python.org/download/</A>
or here:
<A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/python/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/python/</A>
<P>Windows: grab the Windows installer, run the full install.
<BR>Un*x: follow the build instructions.
<BR>Linux: maybe you already *have* Python: check whether you have
version 1.5.1 or newer.
<BR>MacOS: grab the installer, run "Easy Install"
<P><B>Important:</B> If you have (or decided to install) a Python version
earlier than 2.0, you must also install
<A HREF="http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/download.html">distutils</A>,
a set of tools to help build and install Python packages. (It is included with
Python 2.0 and higher.)
<P>
<LI>
The <B>Numeric Python</B> extension (you don't need this under MacOS, since it's