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autotype – A Lua package for automatic language-specific typography

autotype is a Lua 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.

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Version0.6 2026-04-27
LicensesFree license not otherwise listed
The Project Public License 1.3
MIT License
Copyright2013–2026 Stephan Hennig and Keno Wehr
MaintainerKeno Wehr
Contained inTeX Live as autotype
MiKTeX as autotype
TopicsGerman
Font support
Typesetting
Lua
Hyphenation
See alsoligtype
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