CTAN Update: xits

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at ctan.org
Wed Oct 3 19:21:29 CEST 2018


Khaled Hosny submitted an update to the

                xits

package.

Version:  1.200 2018-10-02
License:  ofl

Summary description:  A Scientific Times-like font with support for mathematical typesetting

Announcement text:
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Version:  1.109 2018-09-29:
 
 - Improve Arabic math glyph considerably, they are much usable now.

 - Add upright RTL integral alternates.

 - Change ‘cv01’ feature for alternate Arabic math glyphs.

 - Make the ‘hhea’ ascent/descent/line gap match the ‘OS/2’ typo metrics.

 - Don’t set deprecated ForceBold in CFF Private dictionary.

 - Fix script position with vertical bar on MS Word.

 - Make vertical bar extensible in bold math font.

 - Make MS Word linear fraction work better.

 - Bundle WOFF fonts.

 - Remove glyph overlap, some CFF rasterizers handle it badly.

 - Fonts can be build with vanilla FontForge now.

 - Builds are reproducible.


Version:  1.200 2018-10-02

 This is the final release with new features; from now on XITS
 is in maintenance mode and only bug fixes will be made.

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/xits

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

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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