New on CTAN: libertine-type1 and biolinum-type1

[CTAN Announcements]

the daemon sent two messages; i've ocnflated them.

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: libertine-type1
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Package version: 5.3.0 (2012-09-17)
> Location on CTAN: fonts/libertine-type1/, fonts/biolinum-type1
> Summary description: LaTeX and pdfLaTeX support for the Linux
> Libertine and Biolinum families of fonts
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> These packages replace the libertine-legacy package which has several
> issues but has been unmaintainable since the original developer
> abandoned it. The support files for this package were generated using
> the autoinst script.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.

> Users may view the package catalogue entries at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/libertine-type1.html
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/biolinum-type1.html
> or they may browse the package directories at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/libertine-type1/
> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/biolinum-type1/

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team

[Uwe Siart]

CTAN Announcements <ctan...@dante.de> writes:

>> These packages replace the libertine-legacy package which has several
>> issues but has been unmaintainable since the original developer
>> abandoned it. The support files for this package were generated using
>> the autoinst script.

Great thing! Thanks.

Does anyone know if this new version can also be used in conjunction
with 'newtx' (in particular \usepackage[libertine]{newtxmath})?

--
Uwe

[Bob Tennent]

I believe Michael Sharpe (newtx developer) is working on that but it may
not be ready yet.

Bob T.

[Uwe Siart]

Bob Tennent <Bo...@cs.queensu.ca> writes:

> I believe Michael Sharpe (newtx developer) is working on that but it may
> not be ready yet.

Thanks to both of you. These are very nice and useful font projects.

--
Uwe

[Uwe Siart]

CTAN Announcements <ctan...@dante.de> writes:

>> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/libertine-type1/
>> http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/biolinum-type1/

I found that

http://mirror.ctan.org/install/fonts/libertine-type1.tds.zip

contains not only libertine-type1.map but also full-blown mapfiles
locally generated by updmap. These mapfiles should not come with the
install archive, should they?

--
Uwe

[Bob Tennent]

No. That was a mistake on my part; autoinst is a little *too* automatic!
I've already uploaded revised tds.zip files to CTAN but they're likely
not installed yet. Thanks for reporting the problem.

Bob T.

[Robin Fairbairns]

now on their way on the big adventure that is ctan mirroring.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
sorry about all this posting. i'll go back to sleep in a bit.

[Herbert Voss]

Am 20.09.2012 21:24, schrieb CTAN Announcements:> the daemon sent two

messages; i've ocnflated them.
>
>> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>>
>> Name of contribution: libertine-type1

I cannot see the sense of deleting the file libertine.sty.
It could still be present as

\RequirePackage{libertine-type1}
\RequirePackage{biolinum-type1}

All documents anf there are a lot which uses a \usepackage{libertine}
are broken otherwise.

Herbert

[Bob Tennent]

Not if libertine-legacy is installed. But they may be broken if
your wrapper were provided because libertine-type1 is certainly not
guaranteed to work like the existing (very idiosyncratic) libertine.sty.
Users can certainly try your suggestion but I'm not going to force it on
them.

Bob T.

[Herbert Voss]

Am 22.09.2012 13:41, schrieb Bob Tennent:

> Not if libertine-legacy is installed. But they may be broken if
> your wrapper were provided because libertine-type1 is certainly not
> guaranteed to work like the existing (very idiosyncratic) libertine.sty.
> Users can certainly try your suggestion but I'm not going to force it on
> them.

I am using current TL and there is no more a libertine-legacy ...
I know that I can it reinstall from CTAN, but that is what I called
not a good idea.

Another remark:
\usepackage{libertine-type1}
\usepackage{biolinum-type1}

sets my \familydefault to biolinum, because the order of the
packages is important. I think the redefinition of \familydefault
should be done by the user.

Herbert

[Bob Tennent]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:58:17 +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Am 22.09.2012 13:41, schrieb Bob Tennent:
>
> > Not if libertine-legacy is installed. But they may be broken if
> > your wrapper were provided because libertine-type1 is certainly not
> > guaranteed to work like the existing (very idiosyncratic) libertine.sty.
> > Users can certainly try your suggestion but I'm not going to force it on
> > them.
>
> I am using current TL and there is no more a libertine-legacy ...
> I know that I can it reinstall from CTAN, but that is what I called
> not a good idea.

That must have happened overnight and is perhaps premature.

> Another remark:
> \usepackage{libertine-type1}
> \usepackage{biolinum-type1}
>
> sets my \familydefault to biolinum, because the order of the
> packages is important. I think the redefinition of \familydefault
> should be done by the user.

For now, I'll just add some remarks to the READMEs about this. To
simplify maintenance I'm hoping I won't have to start fiddling with the
style files produced. I've already asked the autoinst developer to add
several options to avoid defaults which force me to do much fiddling
with the resulting tds tree.

Thank you for your suggestions.

Bob T.

[Clemens Niederberger]

Are the
- Biolinum-Outline-Font
- Biolinum-Shadow-Font
- Biolinum-Key-Font

available with biolinum-type1?

Regards


--
Clemens Niederberger
www.mychemistry.eu

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:44:02 +0000 (UTC) schrieb Bob Tennent:

> > sets my \familydefault to biolinum, because the order of the
> > packages is important. I think the redefinition of \familydefault
> > should be done by the user.
>
> For now, I'll just add some remarks to the READMEs about this. To
> simplify maintenance I'm hoping I won't have to start fiddling with the
> style files produced. I've already asked the autoinst developer to add
> several options to avoid defaults which force me to do much fiddling
> with the resulting tds tree.

Imho he should simply remove these "\renewcommand\familydefault..."
lines. It doesn't make sense if every font generated by autoinst
tries to set the familydefault.



--
Ulrike Fischer
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

[Bob Tennent]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:34:39 +0200, Clemens Niederberger wrote:
> Are the
> - Biolinum-Outline-Font
> - Biolinum-Shadow-Font
> - Biolinum-Key-Font
>
> available with biolinum-type1?

No. They might be in libertineotf and of course in
libertine-legacy.

Bob T.

[Clemens Niederberger]

Yes, they are in libertineotf. Since libertine-legacy was removed from
TL 2012 (which was a document breaking change for me :( ) I wondered if
I could use them without having to reinstall libertine-legacy or having
to use Xe-/LuaLaTeX. I guess not, then.

[Bob Tennent]

Well you could get the otfs from

https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxlibertine/files/linuxlibertine/5.3.0/

and apply autoinst to them. You may want to get the latest version
of the lcdf-typetools (2.95). Earlier versions crash on the italic
Libertine fonts because of several multiply-defined glyphs. If there's
sufficient demand, I might try to create a libertine-extras package for
these "unusual" fonts.

Bob T.

[Bob Tennent]

OK. By popular demand, I'm uploading revised packages in which the
style files do not change the fontencoding or the family default.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Bob T.

[Bob Tennent]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:34:39 +0200, Clemens Niederberger wrote:

> Are the
> - Biolinum-Outline-Font
> - Biolinum-Shadow-Font
> - Biolinum-Key-Font
>
> available with biolinum-type1?

The Biolinum Keyboard font is available in otf and I think I can
make it available in type1 form. I have no idea how the Outline
and Shadow series of Biolinum were produced for what is now called
libertine-legacy. The fontinst scripts used by the developer aren't
AFAIK available. This is likely why TeXLive have dropped
libertine-legacy: without those scripts, the package isn't free
software.

Bob T.

[Clemens Niederberger]

That's a way I'll at least try, thanks for the suggestion!

--
Clemens Niederberger
www.mychemistry.eu

[Clemens Niederberger]

Am 22.09.2012 20:25, schrieb Bob Tennent:
> This is likely why TeXLive have dropped
> libertine-legacy: without those scripts, the package isn't free
> software.
>
> Bob T.
>

That would make sense.

--
Clemens Niederberger
www.mychemistry.eu