• New on CTAN: gentium-sil

    From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 6 21:31:47 2025
    Karl Berry submitted the

    gentium-sil

    package.

    Version: 6.200
    License: ofl

    Summary description: A complete Greek font with Latin and Cyrillic, too

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    This new gentium-sil package replaces the previous gentium-tug;
    gentium-sil is a redistribution of the original SIL release (https://software.sil.org/gentium/), with no changes of any kind.

    Specifically, it is no longer feasible to continue with the
    conversion of Gentium to Type 1 that was the purpose of gentium-tug. The original character definitions have intersecting splines, and there is
    no way to reliably convert them to Type 1. My summary of the situation: https://tug.org/pipermail/gentium/2024q4/000072.html

    Therefore all we can do here is redistribute the original TrueType
    fonts. (If anyone would like to come forward to create the necessary
    support files for pdftex to use the TrueType fonts, that would be welcome.)

    Any issues and discussion about the redistribution on CTAN, etc., can be
    sent to the gentium@tug.org mailing list (archives and subscription at https://lists.tug.org/gentium). Problems with the fonts themselves
    should be reported to SIL; see info at https://software.sil.org/gentium/support.

    Herbert Voss expects to release a companion gentium-ttf support package
    soon to provide convenient access to the font features provided in Gentium.


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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/gentium-sil

    More information is at
    https://www.ctan.org/pkg/gentium-sil


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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz



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