CTAN update: fontspec v2.0b2
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Jun 2 22:57:48 CEST 2010
that daemon pops up at the most inconvenient times. while i was working
hard on my day job, it said:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: fontspec v2.0b2
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Second beta release of fontspec v2, which supports LuaTeX.
>
> Minor changes since the previous release:
> - No longer need to run mkluatexfontdb manually;
> update documentation to reflect this
> - Fix a bug with automatic font scaling in LuaTeX
> - Two new XeTeX features: AutoFakeBold and AutoFakeSlant
> for generating "poor man's bold" and "poor man's oblique"
> shapes for a family (these are extensions of FakeBold/FakeSlant)
> - An internal programmer's interface command for creating
> new LaTeX font families.
> - Minor internal and documentation changes.
> - For XeTeX: many functions of xltxtra are now incorporated
> into fontspec.
> - The makefile can now automatically install fontspec without
> needing the path to your texmfhome.
>
> (Note we no longer have a .ins file but Manuel assures me that's
> okay. You can extract everything from the dtx using the Makefile
> or by running `tex fontspec.dtx`.)
thanks for the upload; i've installed the files and updated the
catalogue repository.
> 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
though the catalogue entry won't change (in so far as it changes at all)
until some time while i sleep tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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