CTAN update: xits
Date: July 13, 2011 9:52:24 PM CEST
the daemon appears while i'm actually working:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: xits
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Location on CTAN: fonts/xits
> Summary description: A Scientific Times-like font with support for mathematical typesetting.
> License type: other-free
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Initial right-to-left math support
> - Add basic Arabic letters, digits and some math symbols
> - Add support for overly accents
> - Make uni2980, uni20E9, uni2223, uni2225, uni2AF4 and uni2AFC extensible
> - Support math variants using variation selector (VS1)
> - Add alternate negated symbols with vertical stroke
> - Use the bar glyph from STIXVar.otf
> - Fix FontForge warnings
> - Fix swapped U+22D2 and U+22D3 glyphs
thanks for the upload (where _do_ you find the time?) -- i've installed
the new version and updated the catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/xits.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/xits/
The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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 |