CTAN Update: TeX Gyre fonts

[CTAN Announcements]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 at 16:05 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to 
the

  tex-gyre

fonts.

Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre

 > -----
 > Package: The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts
 > Authors: Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
 > Version: 1.104
 > Date: February 2008
 > Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre
 > License: GUST Font License
 > Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre
 > 
 > The whole package consists of the following font families:
 > TeX Gyre Adventor, TeX Gyre Bonum, TeX Gyre Chorus, TeX Gyre Cursor,
 > TeX Gyre Heros, TeX Gyre Pagella, TeX Gyre Schola, TeX Gyre Termes
 > 
 > ---------
 > Description
 > 
 > All of the Ghostscript text font families have become "gyrefied" 
 > as the result of the project. "Gyrefication", also called "LM-ization", 
 > was first applied to the Computer Modern Fonts and their various 
 > generalizations with the result known as the Latin Modern (LM) Fonts.
 > 
 > 
 > The TeX Gyre Adventor family of sansserif fonts is based on the 
 > URW Gothic L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, 
 > ITC Avant Garde Gothic was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase 
 > in 1970. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs 
 > each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats.
 > 
 > The TeX Gyre Bonum family of serif fonts is based on the URW Bookman L 
 > family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font was designed 
 > by Alexander Phemister in 1860 and named Bookman (or Bookman Old Style). 
 > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and 
 > are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note 
 > that with the release of this family the QuasiBookman fonts became 
 > obsolete.
 > 
 > The TeX Gyre Chorus is a font based on the 
 > URW Chancery L Medium Italic font distributed with Ghostscript. 
 > The original, ITC Zapf Chancery, was designed in 1979 by 
 > Hermann Zapf who was inspired by handwritten letterforms of the 
 > Italian Renaissance (currently, other variants of this typeface 
 > are available). Compared to URW Chancery L Medium Italic, 
 > TeX Gyre Chorus is heavily extended and contains more than 900 glyphs. 
 > Unlike for other fonts from the TeX Gyre collection, Greek letters are 
 > missing and so are small caps (using capital forms of chancery 
 > characters for typesetting whole words should be forbidden by law). 
 > The font is available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. 
 > Please note that with the release of TeX Gyre Chorus the QuasiChancery 
 > font became obsolete.
 > 
 > The TeX Gyre Cursor family of monospaced serif fonts is based on the 
 > URW Nimbus Mono L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original 
 > font, Courier, was designed by Howard G. (Bud) Kettler in 1955 for 
 > the IBM Corporation. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 
 > 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type 
 > formats. Please note that with the release of this family 
 > the QuasiCourier fonts became obsolete.
 > 
 > The TeX Gyre Heros family of sansserif fonts is based on the 
 > URW Nimbus Sans L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original 
 > font, Helvetica, was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger in cooperation 
 > with Eduard Hoffman at the Haas type foundry. The constituent 
 > 8 faces (4 standard and 4 condensed) contain nearly 1250 glyphs each 
 > and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. 
 > Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiSwiss fonts 
 > became obsolete.
 > 
 > The TeX Gyre Pagella family of serif fonts is based on the URW Palladio L 
 > family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Palatino, 
 > was designed by Hermann Zapf in the 1940's for the Stempel type foundry. 
 > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and 
 > are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that 
 > with the release of this family the QuasiPalatino fonts became obsolete.
 > 
 > The TeX Gyre Schola family of serif fonts is based on the 
 > URW Century Schoolbook L family distributed with Ghostscript. 
 > The original was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1919, for 
 > the American Type Founders. The constituent 4 standard faces 
 > contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, 
 > TeX and Open Type formats.
 > 
 > The TeX Gyre Termes family of serif fonts is based on the 
 > Nimbus Roman No9 L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original 
 > font, Times, was designed by Stanley Morison together with 
 > Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent for the London newspaper 
 > "The Times". It was first issued by the Monotype Corporation in 1932. 
 > The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each 
 > and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please 
 > note that Termes obsoletes the QuasiTimes fonts.
 > 
 > ----
 > Recent changes
 > * math glyphs shifted horizontally (widths left intact)
 > * kerns between half rings and `A' (also `a.sc') added 
 > * in the OTF files, the features `salt', `ss01', `ss02',
 >   `ss03', `ss04' added
 > * compatibility with the recent Latin Modern release (1.106) implemented,
 >   see -- http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/
 >   main changes: the repertoire of glyphs extended by Arabic transliteration
 >   glyphs, OTF structure modified (`size' feature implemented, the ligatures
 >   `i_j' and `I_J' available only for Dutch, the ligature `f_k' -- for Polish,
 >   the `locl' feature reimplemented -- an artificial glyph `i.TRK' is no
 >   longer needed)
 > * glyphs uni03C6 and uni03D5 used to be interchanged in all TeX Gyre fonts;
 >   the unicode specification is not explicit too much:
 >     03C6;GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI
 >     03D5;GREEK PHI SYMBOL
 > * `copyright.alt' added
 > * an underlining stroke added in `ordmasculine' and `orfeminine';
 >   `colonmonetary' and `guarani' touched
 > 
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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf