Marcel Krüger submitted an update to the

luaotfload

package.

Version: 3.19 2022-02-24 License: gpl2

Summary description: OpenType ‘loader’ for Plain TeX and LaTeX

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* When used with LuaTeX 1.15.0 or newer, variable fonts are supported when using the harf shaper too.

* A new algorithm for selecting fonts based on font family names allows to more reliably load fonts based on their family name.

* The compiled font database gets compressed to reduce disk space and improve performance on newer systems.

* Text automatically gets normalized to Unicode's NFC before shaping. This improves rendering for text written in decomposed forms for many fonts. This can be turned off by passing the -normalize font feature.

* The fontloader has been synced with the context code from 2022-02-24. This fixes some broken rendering of TrueType based variable fonts.

* A number of small bugfixes.

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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