On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 at 16:05 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted an update to the
tex-gyre
fonts.
Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre
Package: The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki Version: 1.104 Date: February 2008 Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre License: GUST Font License Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre
The whole package consists of the following font families: TeX Gyre Adventor, TeX Gyre Bonum, TeX Gyre Chorus, TeX Gyre Cursor, TeX Gyre Heros, TeX Gyre Pagella, TeX Gyre Schola, TeX Gyre Termes
Description
All of the Ghostscript text font families have become gyrefied as the result of the project. Gyrefication, also called LM-ization, was first applied to the Computer Modern Fonts and their various generalizations with the result known as the Latin Modern (LM) Fonts.
The TeX Gyre Adventor family of sansserif fonts is based on the URW Gothic L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, ITC Avant Garde Gothic was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase in 1970. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats.
The TeX Gyre Bonum family of serif fonts is based on the URW Bookman L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font was designed by Alexander Phemister in 1860 and named Bookman (or Bookman Old Style). The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiBookman fonts became obsolete.
The TeX Gyre Chorus is a font based on the URW Chancery L Medium Italic font distributed with Ghostscript. The original, ITC Zapf Chancery, was designed in 1979 by Hermann Zapf who was inspired by handwritten letterforms of the Italian Renaissance (currently, other variants of this typeface are available). Compared to URW Chancery L Medium Italic, TeX Gyre Chorus is heavily extended and contains more than 900 glyphs. Unlike for other fonts from the TeX Gyre collection, Greek letters are missing and so are small caps (using capital forms of chancery characters for typesetting whole words should be forbidden by law). The font is available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of TeX Gyre Chorus the QuasiChancery font became obsolete.
The TeX Gyre Cursor family of monospaced serif fonts is based on the URW Nimbus Mono L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Courier, was designed by Howard G. (Bud) Kettler in 1955 for the IBM Corporation. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiCourier fonts became obsolete.
The TeX Gyre Heros family of sansserif fonts is based on the URW Nimbus Sans L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Helvetica, was designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger in cooperation with Eduard Hoffman at the Haas type foundry. The constituent 8 faces (4 standard and 4 condensed) contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiSwiss fonts became obsolete.
The TeX Gyre Pagella family of serif fonts is based on the URW Palladio L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Palatino, was designed by Hermann Zapf in the 1940's for the Stempel type foundry. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiPalatino fonts became obsolete.
The TeX Gyre Schola family of serif fonts is based on the URW Century Schoolbook L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1919, for the American Type Founders. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats.
The TeX Gyre Termes family of serif fonts is based on the Nimbus Roman No9 L family distributed with Ghostscript. The original font, Times, was designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent for the London newspaper The Times. It was first issued by the Monotype Corporation in 1932. The constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1250 glyphs each and are available in PostScript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that Termes obsoletes the QuasiTimes fonts.
Recent changes
- math glyphs shifted horizontally (widths left intact)
- kerns between half rings and `A' (also `a.sc') added
- in the OTF files, the features `salt', `ss01', `ss02', `ss03', `ss04' added
- compatibility with the recent Latin Modern release (1.106) implemented, see -- http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/ main changes: the repertoire of glyphs extended by Arabic transliteration glyphs, OTF structure modified (`size' feature implemented, the ligatures `i_j' and `I_J' available only for Dutch, the ligature `f_k' -- for Polish, the `locl' feature reimplemented -- an artificial glyph `i.TRK' is no longer needed)
- glyphs uni03C6 and uni03D5 used to be interchanged in all TeX Gyre fonts; the unicode specification is not explicit too much: 03C6;GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI 03D5;GREEK PHI SYMBOL
- `copyright.alt' added
- an underlining stroke added in `ordmasculine' and `orfeminine'; `colonmonetary' and `guarani' touched
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf