CTAN package replacements: lucida, lucidabr

[CTAN Announcements]

Karl Berry writes:

> The lucida (fonts/metrics/bh/lucida) and
> lucidabr (macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/lucidabr) packages have been
> updated on CTAN.
> 
> The lucida package contains font metrics for Lucida, but no actual
> outlines (such as .pfb files).  The outlines must be purchased
> separately.  The metrics have been updated by Walter Schmidt; see
> technical details below.
> 
> The lucidabr package contains basic LaTeX macro support for Lucida under
> the NFSS ("New Font Selection Scheme").  Only documentation has been
> updated; the actual LaTeX support is unchanged.  lucidabr is now
> maintained by TUG, via volunteers Morten Hoegholm and Karl Berry.
> 
> TUG will be making a separate announcement about availability of the
> fonts.
> 
> For more information, questions, and bug reports, see information and
> mailing list at http://tug.org/lucida.
> 
> --
> 
> Technical details for the lucida metrics update:
> 
> 2005-09-15
> 
>   Font family hlhj with oldstyle figures added.
>   Documentation (doc/fonts/lucida/lucida.txt) updated
>   accordingly.
> 
> 2005-08-24
> 
>   Changed directory layout:
>   Metrics, VFs and Type1 fonts are no longer spread over
>   several directories each, and the documentation resides in
>   <texmf>/doc/fonts /lucida now.  Thus, all bottom-level
>   directories have the name "lucida" (which works well with
>   TeX Live, although it is not required by the TDS.)
> 
>   The font map files lucidabr.map and lumath.map have been
>   concatenated to one single file named "lucida.map"; and
>   there is only one single map file "lucida.ali" for VTeX,
>   too.
> 
>   Map files using standard ("Karl Berry style") names for
>   the Type1 font files have been abolished, since both
>   MikTeX and TeX Live seem to prefer the original file
>   names.
>   (Note, however, that all tfm and vf files carry _standard_
>   names, because the original names would not be able to
>   distinguish between LY1, T1 and TS1 encoding.)
> 
>   \texteuro is now provided in _all_ TS1-encoded fonts; when
>   there is no such character in the physical Type1 font, it
>   is faked.
> 
>   Improved Polish diacritics and \dj in most virtual fonts.
> 
>   Revised VFs and metrics of the smallcaps fonts hlhbc8t and
>   hlhrc8t to fix a minor bug regarding the size of the
>   hungarumlaut accent.
> 
>   Oldstyle figures from the Lucida Calligraphy-Italic fonts
>   are made available also for the italic shape of the Lucida
>   Bright family.
> 
>   Revised documentation; in particular, the API provided by
>   the fd files to scale the fonts (\DeclareLucidaFontShape)
>   is now documented.
> 
> The Lucida typeface family was designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes.
> (R) Lucida is a trademark of Bigelow & Holmes Inc.
> registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and other
> jurisdictions.

i have installed the both sets of files at cambridge, and pushed the
results out to the other ctans (and hence to mirrors).

at the same time, i have deleted the (very) old metrics on ctan at
fonts/lucida

the new files may be viewed at:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida/ (metrics, etc.)
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/lucidabr/
                                                            (macros, etc.)

and users may download them from:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida.zip (metrics, etc.)
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/lucidabr.zip
                                                               (macros, etc.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team