CTAN update: lettrine
Date: January 21, 2024 5:30:42 PM CET
Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the
lettrine
package.
Version number: 2.60 2024-01-20
License type: lppl1.3
Summary description: Typeset dropped capitals
Announcement text:
The `\lettrine` command is now compatible with right to left typesetting, both with `LuaLaTeX` and `XeLaTeX` (`babel` or `polyglossia`). A basic example `lettrine-demo-arabic.tex` has been added to the `doc` directory. Currently with XeLaTeX, file `lettrine-xetex-bidi.def` (v0.8 [2022/11/06]) is automatically loaded by the `bidi` package; it redefines the `\@lettrine`command based on version 2.30 of `lettrine`. This code breaks versions 2.50 and newer of the `lettrine` package, you can now safely remove `lettrine-xetex-bidi.def` if you install `lettrine` v2.60.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/lettrine
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
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The `\lettrine` command is now compatible with right to left typesetting, both with `LuaLaTeX` and `XeLaTeX` (`babel` or `polyglossia`). A basic example `lettrine-demo-arabic.tex` has been added to the `doc` directory. Currently with XeLaTeX, file `lettrine-xetex-bidi.def` (v0.8 [2022/11/06]) is automatically loaded by the `bidi` package; it redefines the `\@lettrine`command based on version 2.30 of `lettrine`. This code breaks versions 2.50 and newer of the `lettrine` package, you can now safely remove `lettrine-xetex-bidi.def` if you install `lettrine` v2.60.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/lettrine More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/lettrine
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
lettrine – Typeset dropped capitals
The lettrine package supports various dropped capitals styles, typically those described in the French typographic books. In particular, it has facilities for the paragraph text’s left edge to follow the outline of capitals that have a regular shape (such as “A” and “V”).
| Package | lettrine |
| Version | 2.70 2024-11-14 |
| Copyright | 1999–2024 Daniel Flipo |
| Maintainer | Daniel Flipo |