CTAN update and move: fontspec
Date: May 27, 2010 1:59:59 PM CEST
the daemon, rushing around as i rushed around preparing for work, wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: fontspec
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec
> Summary description: Font loading in XeTeX and LuaTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is the initial ("beta 1") release of fontspec version 2 for TeX
> Live 2010.
>
> Testing and feedback most appreciated!
>
> It now supports OpenType font loading in LuaTeX thanks to the work of
> Khaled Hosny, Elie Roux, and Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard. Please discuss bugs
> or improvements on the lualatex-dev mailing list. In between main releases
> on CTAN, updates for bug testing can be obtained from
> <http://github.com/wspr/fontspec/>.
>
> The documentation still needs improvement but the basic functionality should
> be working. It is intended to be tested on TeX Live 2010; it should still be
> compatible with earlier versions of XeTeX, however.
>
> * * *
>
> Please remove fontspec from its current location on CTAN
> (macros/xetex/latex/fontspec). I can't think of a better alternative than
> placing it now in the standard latex/ directory macros/latex/contrib/fontspec
> since it has functionality for both XeTeX and LuaTeX.
i've installed, as requested, and created a link from the old location,
until such time as i think to remove it again. i've also updated the
catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.
> 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/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec
as usual, the catalogue entry will change during the european night
hours.
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 |