CTAN update: luaotfload

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Fri May 28 14:53:47 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: 1.08
Author's name: Khaled Hosny
Location on CTAN: /
Summary description: ConTeXt OTF loading system for Plain and LaTeX
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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* fix misc. bugs with system fonts scanning
* parse fontconfig configuration directly, no longer
dependant on 'fc-list'
* now if no font names database is found, luaotfload will
generate it, also
  it will force an update of the database if the asked font
can not be
  found
* avoid loading non-tfm fonts when the user asks for tfm font
* update the documentation
* blacklist .ttc and LastResort font on mac.
* sync with ConTeXt beta 2010.05.22
* fix attribute handling
* clarify license
* 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
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