CTAN update: zhmetrics
Date: October 14, 2009 11:17:56 AM CEST
This update should soon reach your local mirror.
Jim
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Chinese Font Metrics
Version number: r206
Author's name: Yue Wang
Location on CTAN: /fonts/metrics
Summary description: tfm files, map files, fd files needed to embed Chinese TTF fonts into PDF
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
This release provide bug fixes, and minor updates to better match the font definitions in the CJK package. We hope this will be the final version that will be appeared in TeXLive 2009. For more information, visit http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/zhmetrics . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/zhmetrics (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
This release provide bug fixes, and minor updates to better match the font definitions in the CJK package. We hope this will be the final version that will be appeared in TeXLive 2009. For more information, visit http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/zhmetrics . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/zhmetrics (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
zhmetrics – TFM subfont files for using Chinese fonts in 8-bit TeX
These are metrics to use existing Chinese TrueType fonts in workflows that use LaTeX & dvipdfmx, or pdfLaTeX. The fonts themselves are not included in the package.
Six font families are supported: kai, song, lishu, fangsong, youyuan and hei. Two encodings (GBK and UTF-8) are supported.
Package | zhmetrics |
Version | r206 |
Maintainer | Yue Wang LingYun Wu |