CTAN update: yfonts-otf
Date: November 3, 2025 12:18:01 PM CET
Daniel Flipo submitted an update to the
yfonts-otf
package.
Version number: 0.60 2025-10-31
License type: ofl lppl1.3
Summary description: OpenType version of the Old German fonts designed by Yannis Haralambous
Announcement text:
- Feature "Alternate=1" (aliased as "StylisticSet=2" for XeLaTeX users) added: "A, "O, "U are printed as Ä, Ö, Ü respectively instead of Ae, Oe, Ue (the default). Works for frak, swab and goth families. - Accents positions tuned.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/yfonts-otf More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/yfonts-otf
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
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- Feature "Alternate=1" (aliased as "StylisticSet=2" for XeLaTeX users) added: "A, "O, "U are printed as Ä, Ö, Ü respectively instead of Ae, Oe, Ue (the default). Works for frak, swab and goth families. - Accents positions tuned.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/yfonts-otf More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/yfonts-otf
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
yfonts-otf – OpenType version of the Old German fonts designed by Yannis Haralambous
This is an OpenType version of the Old German fonts yfrak, ygoth, yswab designed by Yannis Haralambous in METAFONT. The OpenType features make it easier to deal with the long/round s and with older forms of umlauts (small e over the letter).
A style file yfonts-otf.sty is provided as a replacement, for LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX, of yfonts.sty or oldgerm.sty.
| Package | yfonts-otf |
| Version | 0.60 2025-10-31 |
| Copyright | 2022–2025 Daniel Flipo |
| Maintainer | Daniel Flipo |