CTAN update: luaotfload

[CTAN Announcements]

Marcel Krüger submitted an update to the

                 luaotfload

package.

Version:  3.19 2022-02-24
License:  gpl2

Summary description:  OpenType ‘loader’ for Plain TeX and LaTeX

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 *  When used with LuaTeX 1.15.0 or newer, variable fonts are supported
    when using the harf shaper too.

 *  A new algorithm for selecting fonts based on font family names allows
    to more reliably load fonts based on their family name.

 *  The compiled font database gets compressed to reduce disk space and
    improve performance on newer systems.

 *  Text automatically gets normalized to Unicode's NFC before shaping.
    This improves rendering for text written in decomposed forms for many
    fonts. This can be turned off by passing the -normalize font feature.

 *  The fontloader has been synced with the context code from 2022-02-24.
    This fixes some broken rendering of TrueType based variable fonts.

 *  A number of small bugfixes.

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

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/luaotfload/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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