autotype – A LuaLaTeX package for automatic language-specific typography

autotype is a LuaLaTeX package for automatic language-specific typography. Currently, only the German language is supported (old and new orthography). The package makes it possible to suppress ligatures at word boundaries, to activate a hyphenation algorithm that prefers hyphenation points at word boundaries (weighted hyphenation), to enable irregular hyphenations like backen → bak-ken, Schiffahrt → Schiff-fahrt of traditional German orthography, and to insert long s for blackletter typesetting.

Sources	/macros/luatex/latex/autotype
Documentation	README Package documentation
Support	mailto:trennmuster@dante.de
Bug tracker	https://codeberg.org/wehr/autotype/issues
Repository	https://codeberg.org/wehr/autotype
Version	0.6 2026-04-27
Licenses	The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3 MIT License Free license not otherwise listed
Copyright	2013–2026 Stephan Hennig and Keno Wehr
Maintainer	Keno Wehr
Contained in	TeX Live as autotype MiKTeX as autotype
Topics	Typesetting Font support Hyphenation German LuaTeX
See also	ligtype selnolig

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