CTAN Update: fontools
Date: April 2, 2019 8:30:43 PM CEST
Marc Penninga submitted an update to the
fontools
bundle.
Version: 2019-04-01
License: gpl2
Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TT/OTF ones)
Announcement text:
Changes in autoinst: - use only standard NFSS codes for width and weight in fd files - create $TEXMFHOME when it doesn't exist (but only if $TEXMFLOCAL isn't user-writable, since that's still the default output tree) - in manual mode, put all generated files into a subdir "autoinst_output/", instead of all over the current dir - add 'auto' value to the -inferiors option; autoinst will use whatever inferior characters the font contains
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
We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Changes in autoinst: - use only standard NFSS codes for width and weight in fd files - create $TEXMFHOME when it doesn't exist (but only if $TEXMFLOCAL isn't user-writable, since that's still the default output tree) - in manual mode, put all generated files into a subdir "autoinst_output/", instead of all over the current dir - add 'auto' value to the -inferiors option; autoinst will use whatever inferior characters the font contains
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
We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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 |