New CTAN package: GFS Baskerville
Date: January 2, 2008 2:54:21 PM CET
my ctan-upload daemon wrote:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: GFS Baskerville
> Author's name: Antonis Tsolomitis
> Location on CTAN: fonts/greek/GFS/gfsbaskerville
> Summary description: Classic Greek Baskerville by GFS
> License type: other-free (OFL for the font, LPPL for the macros)
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The classic Baskerville Greek by GFS (www.greekfontsociety.org).
> LaTeX support by Antonis Tsolomitis, Laboratory of Digital Typography
> and Mathematical Applications, University of the Aegean
> (http://myria.math.aegean.gr/labs/dt/).
> The package only supports Greek (the fonts themselves contain only
> greek glyphs). This is the first release for LaTeX.
Thanks for the very welcome upload. I have installed the font, and
created a catalogue entry in the repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/gfsbaskerville.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/greek/GFS/gfsbaskerville/
(the bundle itself is well on its way around the world; the catalogue
entry won't appear on the web anywhere until tonight some time.)
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
GFS Baskerville – A Greek font, from one such by Baskerville
The font is a digital implementation of Baskerville’s classic Greek font, provided by the Greek Font Society. The font covers Greek only, and LaTeX support provides for the use of LGR encoding.
Package | GFS Baskerville |
Version | 1.0 |
Maintainer | The Greek Font Society Antonis Tsolomitis |