CTAN Update: libertinus

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at ctan.org
Fri Mar 23 17:33:02 CET 2018


Khaled Hosny submitted an update to the

                libertinus

package.

Version:  6.5  2018-03-21
License:  ofl

Summary description:  The Libertinus font family

Announcement text:
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 - Fix regressions in handling of extensible combining marks with LuaTeX.

 - Add Latin bold italic sans-serif alphabet.

 - Add mathematical double-struck digits.

 - Enable slashed zero feature in math font.

 - Add big sizes for more brackets; \lBrack, \rBrack, \langle, \rangle, \lAngle
   and \rAngle.

 - Add big sizes of slash and backslash.

 - Add \widetilde, \wideutilde and \widebreve.

 - Fix side bearings of math blackboard capitals.

 - Fix math glyphs with negative left side bearing that can clash with
   preceding glyphs.

 - Make \vert and \Vert expansion consistent in size with the brackets.

 - Remove tone bar glyphs; the support was not adequate for proper use.

 - Remove math alphabet glyphs from text fonts.

 - Fix glyphs incorrectly categorized as mark glyphs.

 - Add Bitcoin currency symbol.

 - Fix stacking of a-ring and macron.

 - Fix “ct” and “st” historic ligatures and make them consistent across fonts.

 - Fix mark positioning over AE and OE glyphs.

 - Fix style of U+2100 (a/c), U+2101 (a/s), U+2015 (c/o) and U+2106 (c/u).

 - Fix mark positioning over G and g glyphs.

 - Make default and alternate J glyphs consistent across upright and italic
   fonts.

 - Make U+00BA MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR and U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
   have the same baseline in serif fonts.

 - Position semibold serif i/j dot similar to other styles.

 - Remove rudimentary MATH table from regular serif font.

 - Fix alignment of U+2192, U+2198, U+2199 in the monospace font.

 - Make more arrows fixed width in the monospace font.

 - Make capital roman numbers in sans-serif and sans-serif italic fonts actually
   sans-serif.

 - Make \product in sans-serif fonts actually sans-serif.

 - The fonts can now be built with upstream FontForge, no patches needed, as
   well as Python 3.
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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/libertinus

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/libertinus/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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