CTAN update: fontools

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at ctan.org
Wed Jun 26 22:22:46 CEST 2019


Marc Penninga submitted an update to the

                fontools

package.

Version number: 2019-06-25
License type: gpl2

Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TT/OTF ones)

Announcement text:
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- New tool in the fontools collection:
    - splitttc: splits an OpenType Collection file into separate fonts

- Changes in autoinst:
    - Added -mergeweights and -mergeshapes options
    - Improved parsing of fonts' widths and weights
    - Improved mapping of widths and weights to NFSS codes
    - Warn when installing fonts from multiple families
    - Added (simple) automatic recognition of sanserif and typewriter fonts
    - Added encoding files for T3 and TS3 to distribution
    - Bugs fixed:
        - always log results of font info parsing
        - -inferiors without value would gobble next option or argument
        - fixed error checking after calls to otfinfo
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/utilities/fontools

More information is at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontools

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Ina Dau

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