CTAN update: autotype
Datum: 29. April 2026 09:32:04 MESZ
Keno Wehr submitted an update to the
autotype
package.
Version: 0.6 2026-04-27
License: lppl1.3 mit other-free
Summary description: A LuaLaTeX package for automatic language-specific typography
Announcement text:
* hyphenation: - insert primary and secondary hyphenation points only where a regular hyphenation point is present (avoids wrong hyphenations in some cases) - add support for irregular hyphenations backen → bak-ken, Schiffahrt → Schiff-fahrt, Schwimmeister → Schwimm-meister of the traditional German orthography - take into account local values of \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin (instead of just using 2 for both) * ligature suppression: - option rename: ligbreak=on → ligatures=selective, ligbreak=off → ligatures=default - command rename: \noligbreak → \keepligatures - keep font kerning at word boundaries (instead of just using 0pt) * adaptions for the new language names of babel-german v3 * manual: - use syntax highlighting - improved documentation for Missaali font concerning round r - document problem with \hyphenationmin primitive - document problem concerning ligature suppression with ZWNJ and HarfBuzz - document problem concerning ligature suppression and individual kerning
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/autotype More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/autotype
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz 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 .
* hyphenation: - insert primary and secondary hyphenation points only where a regular hyphenation point is present (avoids wrong hyphenations in some cases) - add support for irregular hyphenations backen → bak-ken, Schiffahrt → Schiff-fahrt, Schwimmeister → Schwimm-meister of the traditional German orthography - take into account local values of \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin (instead of just using 2 for both) * ligature suppression: - option rename: ligbreak=on → ligatures=selective, ligbreak=off → ligatures=default - command rename: \noligbreak → \keepligatures - keep font kerning at word boundaries (instead of just using 0pt) * adaptions for the new language names of babel-german v3 * manual: - use syntax highlighting - improved documentation for Missaali font concerning round r - document problem with \hyphenationmin primitive - document problem concerning ligature suppression with ZWNJ and HarfBuzz - document problem concerning ligature suppression and individual kerning
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/autotype More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/autotype
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz 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 .
autotype – A LuaLaTeX package for automatic language-specific typography
autotype is a LuaLaTeX package for automatic language-specific typography. Currently, it supports ligature suppression at word boundaries, long s insertion for blackletter typesetting, and weighted hyphenation, but only for German (old and new orthography).
| Paket | autotype |
| Version | 0.6 2026-04-27 |
| Copyright | 2013–2026 Stephan Hennig and Keno Wehr |
| Betreuer | Keno Wehr |