CTAN update: LXGW-fonts
Date: December 8, 2025 8:17:15 PM CET
Mingyu Xia submitted an update to the
LXGW-fonts
package.
Version: 1.521G 2025-12-08
License: ofl
Summary description: A CJK font family with a comprehensive character set
Announcement text:
- Fixed a bug of fontset configuration for `upTeX`: replace the bold type JFM name `upzhserifitb` with the default fallback one - Optimized the `ctex-spa-lxgw.tex` script. - Make the bold version of the main font heavier - Optimized the `build.lua` script, replaced some lines to interface provided by `l3build`; Enabled the tagging function for bumping easily - Added Index in the manual
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/lxgw-fonts The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lxgw-fonts/
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
- Fixed a bug of fontset configuration for `upTeX`: replace the bold type JFM name `upzhserifitb` with the default fallback one - Optimized the `ctex-spa-lxgw.tex` script. - Make the bold version of the main font heavier - Optimized the `build.lua` script, replaced some lines to interface provided by `l3build`; Enabled the tagging function for bumping easily - Added Index in the manual
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/lxgw-fonts The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/lxgw-fonts/
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
LXGW-fonts – A CJK font family with a comprehensive character set
The LXGW Font Family provides an open-source CJK font family with a comprehensive character set for Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Cantonese, and Japanese. A ‘fontset’ configuration of this font family for the ‘ctex-kit’ is also provided in this package.
| Package | LXGW-fonts |
| Version | 1.521G 2025-12-08 |
| Copyright | 2021–2025 LXGW 2025 Mingyu Xia |
| Maintainer | Mingyu Xia |