CTAN update: luaotfload

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Mon Jun 7 21:20:49 CEST 2010


This should be at your local mirror within a day.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: luaotfload
Version number: 1.10
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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* provide a fonts.names.scan(dir) function that temporally
loads fonts
  from the specified dir into the names database
* Log loaded font file before attempting to open it
* fix XeTeX's square brackets syntax so that it doesn't
trigger database
  update
* fix loading fonts with absolute path
* add \fontdimen8 support, for XeTeX compatibility
* be more verbose when updating the font database
* improve fonts.conf parsing
* make sure when a TFM font is requested we don't end up
loading a non-TFM
  font with a similar name instead
* Remove --fc-cache option from mkluatexfontdb.lua, since we
no longer use
  fontconfig tools
* misc. bug fixes
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/luaotfload
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
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