the daemon told me:
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: libertine-type1 and biolinum-type1 Author's name: Bob Tennent Package version: 5.3.0 (2012-10-30) Location on CTAN: fonts/{libertine-type1,biolinum-type1}/ Summary description: [pdf]latex support for the Linux Libertine and Biolinum families of fonts License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
A slanted version of Biolinum bold is provided in lieu of a designed italic. Swash and titling variants are dropped because they are almost indististinguishable from the regular variants. Encoding files are re-named to avoid filename clashes.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry 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 directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/libertine-type1/ http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/biolinum-type1/
Robin Fairbairns
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