CTAN update: fontools
Datum: 23. April 2026 13:23:34 MESZ
Marc Penninga submitted an update to the
fontools
package.
Version: 2026-04-22
License: gpl2
Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TT/OTF ones)
Announcement text:
This release brings a few changes to autoinst: - The new “-opticalsizes” option allows manually setting or overriding a font's optical size information. Several recent font families (Fraunces, Literata) contain multiple optical masters but no size information, instead making each optical size a separate family. The “-opticalsizes” option allows specifying the optical size range for each master, so that the fonts can be used as a single LaTeX family. - Autoinst now prints an informational message for all weights and widths that could not be mapped to standard NFSS codes. - A few bug fixes.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/fontools The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/utilities/fontools/
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
This release brings a few changes to autoinst: - The new “-opticalsizes” option allows manually setting or overriding a font's optical size information. Several recent font families (Fraunces, Literata) contain multiple optical masters but no size information, instead making each optical size a separate family. The “-opticalsizes” option allows specifying the optical size range for each master, so that the fonts can be used as a single LaTeX family. - Autoinst now prints an informational message for all weights and widths that could not be mapped to standard NFSS codes. - A few bug fixes.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/fontools The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/utilities/fontools/
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
fontools – Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TT/OTF ones)
This package provides tools to simplify using OpenType fonts with LaTeX.
By far the most important program in this bundle is autoinst:
- autoinst – a wrapper script around Eddie Kohler’s LCDF TypeTools. Autoinst aims to automate the installation of OpenType fonts in LaTeX by calling the LCDF TypeTools (with the correct options) for all fonts you wish to install, and generating the necessary .fd and .sty files.
In addition, this bundle contains a few other, less important utilities:
- afm2afm – re-encode .afm files,
- ot2kpx – extract kerning pairs from OpenType fonts,
- splitttc – split an OpenType Collection file (ttc or otc) into individual fonts.
| Paket | fontools |
| Version | 2026-04-22 |
| Copyright | 2005–2026 Marc Penninga |
| Betreuer | Marc Penninga |