CTAN Update: xits
Date: October 3, 2018 7:21:29 PM CEST
Khaled Hosny submitted an update to the
xits
package.
Version: 1.200 2018-10-02
License: ofl
Summary description: A Scientific Times-like font with support for mathematical typesetting
Announcement text:
Version: 1.109 2018-09-29: - Improve Arabic math glyph considerably, they are much usable now. - Add upright RTL integral alternates. - Change ‘cv01’ feature for alternate Arabic math glyphs. - Make the ‘hhea’ ascent/descent/line gap match the ‘OS/2’ typo metrics. - Don’t set deprecated ForceBold in CFF Private dictionary. - Fix script position with vertical bar on MS Word. - Make vertical bar extensible in bold math font. - Make MS Word linear fraction work better. - Bundle WOFF fonts. - Remove glyph overlap, some CFF rasterizers handle it badly. - Fonts can be build with vanilla FontForge now. - Builds are reproducible. Version: 1.200 2018-10-02 This is the final release with new features; from now on XITS is in maintenance mode and only bug fixes will be made.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/xits The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/xits/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Version: 1.109 2018-09-29: - Improve Arabic math glyph considerably, they are much usable now. - Add upright RTL integral alternates. - Change ‘cv01’ feature for alternate Arabic math glyphs. - Make the ‘hhea’ ascent/descent/line gap match the ‘OS/2’ typo metrics. - Don’t set deprecated ForceBold in CFF Private dictionary. - Fix script position with vertical bar on MS Word. - Make vertical bar extensible in bold math font. - Make MS Word linear fraction work better. - Bundle WOFF fonts. - Remove glyph overlap, some CFF rasterizers handle it badly. - Fonts can be build with vanilla FontForge now. - Builds are reproducible. Version: 1.200 2018-10-02 This is the final release with new features; from now on XITS is in maintenance mode and only bug fixes will be made.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/xits The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/xits/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see https://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
xits – A Scientific Times-like font with support for mathematical typesetting
XITS is a Times-like font for scientific typesetting with proper mathematical support for modern, Unicode and OpenType capable TeX engines, namely LuaTeX and XeTeX.
For use with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX, support is available from the fontspec and unicode-math packages.
| Package | xits |
| Version | 1.302 2020-07-02 |
| Maintainer | Khaled Hosny |