CTAN update: selnolig

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Tue Sep 3 11:35:39 CEST 2013


quoth the daemon:

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: selnolig
Author's name: Mico Loretan
Author's email: loretan.mico at gmail.com
Package version: 0.256
Location on CTAN: macros/luatex/latex/selnolig/
Summary description: The package suppresses typographic ligatures
  selectively, i.e., based on predefined search patterns. The search
  patterns focus on ligatures deemed inappropriate because they span
  morpheme boundaries. For example, the word shelfful, which is mentioned
  in the TeXbook as a word for which the ff ligature might be
  inappropriate, is automatically typeset as shelf\/ful rather than as
  shel{ff}ul.  For English and German language documents, the package
  provides extensive rules for the selective suppression of so-called
  “common” ligatures.  These comprise the ff, fi, fl, ffi, and ffl
  ligatures as well as the ft and fft ligatures.  Other f-ligatures, such
  as fb, fh, fj and fk, are suppressed globally, while exceptions are made
  for names and words of non-English/German origin, such as Kafka and
  fjord.  For English language documents, the package further provides
  ligature suppression macros for a number of !  so-called “discretionary”
  or “rare” ligatures such as ct, st, and sp.  The package requires use of
  a recent LuaLaTeX format (for example TeXLive2012 or 2013, or
  MiKTeX2.9).
  License type: lppl


Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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- Updated rules for st and sp ligatures in composite words consisting of
  prefix ending in "s" (such as mis, dis, and trans) and a main word
  (free morpheme) starting with st or sp. 
- In Appendix F (case studies of selnolig applied to various pieces of
  literature), added tallies of words that that get their ligatures
  suppressed for "Faust 1" and "Faust 2" 
- Shortened some sections of the user guide and  expanded
  others. There's now a (reasonably careful) discussion of why morpheme
  boundaries rather than syllable boundaries matter for ligature
  suppression purposes.  
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Announcement required: Yes

Users may view the package catalogue entry at
  http://www.ctan.org/pkg/selnolig
or they may browse the package directory at
  http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/selnolig/

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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