CTAN Update: fontools

Date: May 12, 2020 3:49:43 PM CEST

Marc Penninga submitted an update to the fontools package. Version: 2020-05-11 License: gpl2 Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TT/OTF ones) Announcement text:

Changes in this release: autoinst: - prefer user-supplied encoding files over built-in ones - create better ornament fonts splitttc: - use value of "PostScript name" to name output fonts

The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/fontools The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/utilities/fontools/

Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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fontools – Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TT/OTF ones)

This package provides tools to simplify using OpenType fonts with LaTeX.

By far the most important program in this bundle is autoinst:

autoinst – a wrapper script around Eddie Kohler’s LCDF TypeTools. Autoinst aims to automate the installation of OpenType fonts in LaTeX by calling the LCDF TypeTools (with the correct options) for all fonts you wish to install, and generating the necessary .fd and .sty files.

In addition, this bundle contains a few other, less important utilities:

afm2afm – re-encode .afm files,
ot2kpx – extract kerning pairs from OpenType fonts,
splitttc – split an OpenType Collection file (ttc or otc) into individual fonts.

Package	fontools
Version	2023-12-30
Copyright	2005–2023 Marc Penninga
Maintainer	Marc Penninga

CTAN Update: fontools

fontools – Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TT/OTF ones)

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