CTAN update: zhmetrics
Date: September 19, 2009 3:39:30 PM CEST
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Chinese Font Metrics
Version number: r198
Author's name: Yue Wang
Location on CTAN: /fonts/metrics
Summary description: tfm files, map files, fd files needed to embed
Chinese TTF fonts into PDF
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
LaTeX fd support. and we also fix several bugs in zhwinfonts.tex project hosted on http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit/
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/zhmetrics . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/zhmetrics (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
LaTeX fd support. and we also fix several bugs in zhwinfonts.tex project hosted on http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit/
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/zhmetrics . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/zhmetrics (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
zhmetrics – TFM subfont files for using Chinese fonts in 8-bit TeX
These are metrics to use existing Chinese TrueType fonts in workflows that use LaTeX & dvipdfmx, or pdfLaTeX. The fonts themselves are not included in the package.
Six font families are supported: kai, song, lishu, fangsong, youyuan and hei. Two encodings (GBK and UTF-8) are supported.
| Package | zhmetrics |
| Version | r206 |
| Maintainer | Yue Wang LingYun Wu |