New on CTAN: xfakebold
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Tue Jul 24 23:23:04 CEST 2018
Herbert Voß submitted the
xfakebold
package.
Version number: 0.01
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Fake a regular font for bold characters
Announcement text:
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Package xfakebold uses the the text render from PDF to modify the linewidth of an outline font to get bold characters.
It works only for vectorfonts where the glyphs are defined by its outline. The package works in text and math mode and
for pdflatex and lualatex.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xfakebold
More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xfakebold
We are supported by the TeX User Groups.
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Ina Dau
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