CTAN submission: updated font metrics for Lucida Bright and LuxiMono
Reinhard Zierke
zierke at dante.de
Thu Mar 13 11:19:19 CET 2003
Walter Schmidt asked us to update two packages:
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I have uploaded the file lucida-20030312.zip to the /incoming
directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, unpack it to the CTAN
directory
fonts/metrics/bh/lucida
thus replacing the current files and adding some new ones.
These are updated fonts metrics and VFs for Y&Y's commercial
LucidaBright fonts. Recent improvements to the "fontinst"
tool and changes to the TeXBase1 encoding made it possible
to fix some long-standing deficiencies:
* all typewriter fonts have got vertically centered
asterisks now;
* all textcompanion fonts have got vertically centered
\textaskeriskcented symbols now;
* the Omega symbol \textohm is made available in all
textcompanion fonts.
See the file "readme.lucida" for further minor changes,
which affect the layout of the distribution.
I am fully aware, that these font metrics were updated only
recently. Thus, it may seem as if an important piece of
software has become unstable as soon as I started touching
it ;-) However, I think that the Lucida font metrics
should profit as soon as possible from the above-mentioned
improvements. Note that the character widths are unchanged,
as compared with the previous release, so there should be no
compatibility problems.
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I have uploaded the files "README.luximono" and "ul9.zip" to the
/incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, move them to the
directory
fonts/LuxiMono
thus replacing the current ones. These are updated fonts metrics
and VFs for the LuxiMono typewriter fonts. Recent improvements
to the "fontinst" tool made it possible to fix a long-standing
deficiency of many typewriter fonts (incl. Luxi): the asterisk
symbols are now vertically centered, as required for typical
applications. The Type1 font files on CTAN remain, of course,
unchanged.
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I installed the new and changed files as suggested in the directories
CTAN:/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida/ and CTAN:fonts/LuxiMono/.
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team
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