CTAN update: xltxtra
Date: September 19, 2010 3:43:35 PM CEST
and again, the daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xltxtra
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xltxtra
> Summary description: "Extras" for LaTeX users of XeTeX
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> In this release of xltxtra, code that was duplicated by the more
> recent realscripts has been removed, and that package is loaded instead.
>
> Users are recommended only to load xltxtra for backwards compatibility now;
> loading fontspec on its own is the recommended default (for both XeLaTeX and
> LuaLaTeX).
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>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xltxtra.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xltxtra
note that this is a new location for the package. for the time being, i
have planted links from the old location.
(and of course, the updated catalogue entry won't appear on the web
until some time tonight.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
xltxtra – “Extras” for LaTeX users of XeTeX
This package was previously used to provide a number of features that were useful for typesetting documents with XeLaTeX. Many of those features have now been incorporated into the fontspec package and other packages, but the package persists for backwards compatibility. Nowadays, loading xltxtra will: load the fontspec, metalogo, and realscripts packages; redefine \showhyphens so it works correctly; and define two extra commands: \vfrac and \namedglyph.
| Package | xltxtra |
| Version | 0.7 |
| Copyright | 2006–2018 Will Robertson |
| Maintainer | Will Robertson |