CTAN update: fontspec
Date: July 14, 2010 1:53:26 PM CEST
the daemon is staggering slightly with the weight of updates ahead of
the tex live freeze, but it still managed:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: fontspec
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: contrib/latex/fontspec
> Summary description: Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Just when I thought the final release for TeX Live 2010 was done, a
> couple more issues arose. This time for sure; version v2.0b brings:
>
> * Improved examples in the documentation, with fewer proprietary fonts
> * All font examples are included as separate images on CTAN, so the
> manual can be compiled (with pdfLaTeX) by anyone, anywhere
> * LuaLaTeX fixes for the StylisticSet and Annotation features
> * New OpenType feature `CharacterVariant` now supported
> * Minor change: `Ligatures=Historical` is now `Ligatures=Historic`
> for consistency
thanks for the upload; i have installed the package and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fontspec.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/contrib/latex/fontspec
the catalogue entry on the web will change, somewhat, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
fontspec – Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
Fontspec is a package for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. It provides an automatic and unified interface to feature-rich AAT and OpenType fonts through the NFSS in LaTeX running on XeTeX or LuaTeX engines.
The package requires the l3kernel and xparse bundles from the LaTeX3 development team.
Package | fontspec |
Version | 2.9e 2024-05-11 |
Copyright | 2004–2022 Will Robertson 2009–2013 Khaled Hosny 2022–2024 The LaTeX project |
Maintainer | The LaTeX Project Team Will Robertson |