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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