New on CTAN: LydType
Date: November 4, 2025 5:15:31 PM CET
Jonathan Walls submitted the
LydType
package.
Version: 1.0 2025-11-03
License: lppl1.3c ofl
Summary description: Typing in the Lydian alphabet
Announcement text:
The LydType package aims to allow platform-agnostic typing in the Lydian alphabet using LaTeX, in particular as a way to deal with the fact that Overleaf does not support direct input of certain characters outside of a given Unicode range.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/lydtype The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lydtype/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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The LydType package aims to allow platform-agnostic typing in the Lydian alphabet using LaTeX, in particular as a way to deal with the fact that Overleaf does not support direct input of certain characters outside of a given Unicode range.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/lydtype The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lydtype/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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
LydType – Typing in the Lydian alphabet
This package aims to allow platform-agnostic typing in the Lydian alphabet using LaTeX, in particular as a way to deal with the fact that Overleaf does not support direct input of certain characters outside of a given Unicode range.
The package was developed for use with LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX, functionality with other compilers is not guaranteed.
The package includes the Noto Sans Lydian font as developed by Google.
| Package | LydType |
| Version | 1.0 2025-11-03 |
| Copyright | 2025 Jonathan Walls |
| Maintainer | Jonathan Walls |