New CTAN package --- fonttable

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Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded fonttable.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please put this into 
> macros/latex/contrib/fonttable or where you consider suitable. The 
> distiribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> 
> >From the README
>     The fonttable package enables you to print tables (full and partial) of 
> the characters in a font, and/or some example text.
> 
> (As far as I am aware all the other font table printers are interactive 
> stand-alone TeX documents. This is a package so it can be used in any LaTeX 
> document.)

i've installed the new package, and updated the catalogue.

thanks for the upload: it's really pretty surprising that of all the
myriad font-table programs, there has (as far as i can tell) never
been one designed to use as a package, until now.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team