CTAN update: fontspec v2

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Tue Jun 8 18:41:46 CEST 2010


the daemon cries (and i respond):

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: fontspec v2
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/fontspec
> Summary description: Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> After a short testing period, I'm happy to call this v2 of the
> fontspec package. 
> 
> Since the last beta on CTAN the following changes have been made:
> 
> - New feature: with xcolor loaded you may now select colours by name
> - Typeset examples have been re-added to the documentation
> - Better compatibility with other packages that use internal functions
>   of fontspec pre-v2 (polyglossia is still broken, however)
> - Added a test suite, with few tests so far
> - A number of bug fixes
> 
> This release coincides with version 1.10 of the luaotfload package;
> please update both packages together.

i've installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.

> 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

don't stay up to watch the catalogue entry change, on the web.  i
shan't.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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