Karl Berry writes:

The lucida (fonts/metrics/bh/lucida) and lucidabr (macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/lucidabr) packages have been updated on CTAN.

The lucida package contains font metrics for Lucida, but no actual outlines (such as .pfb files). The outlines must be purchased separately. The metrics have been updated by Walter Schmidt; see technical details below.

The lucidabr package contains basic LaTeX macro support for Lucida under the NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme). Only documentation has been updated; the actual LaTeX support is unchanged. lucidabr is now maintained by TUG, via volunteers Morten Hoegholm and Karl Berry.

TUG will be making a separate announcement about availability of the fonts.

For more information, questions, and bug reports, see information and mailing list at http://tug.org/lucida.

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Technical details for the lucida metrics update:

2005-09-15

Font family hlhj with oldstyle figures added. Documentation (doc/fonts/lucida/lucida.txt) updated accordingly.

2005-08-24

Changed directory layout: Metrics, VFs and Type1 fonts are no longer spread over several directories each, and the documentation resides in <texmf>/doc/fonts /lucida now. Thus, all bottom-level directories have the name lucida (which works well with TeX Live, although it is not required by the TDS.)

The font map files lucidabr.map and lumath.map have been concatenated to one single file named lucida.map; and there is only one single map file lucida.ali for VTeX, too.

Map files using standard (Karl Berry style) names for the Type1 font files have been abolished, since both MikTeX and TeX Live seem to prefer the original file names. (Note, however, that all tfm and vf files carry _standard_ names, because the original names would not be able to distinguish between LY1, T1 and TS1 encoding.)

exteuro is now provided in _all_ TS1-encoded fonts; when there is no such character in the physical Type1 font, it is faked.

Improved Polish diacritics and dj in most virtual fonts.

Revised VFs and metrics of the smallcaps fonts hlhbc8t and hlhrc8t to fix a minor bug regarding the size of the hungarumlaut accent.

Oldstyle figures from the Lucida Calligraphy-Italic fonts are made available also for the italic shape of the Lucida Bright family.

Revised documentation; in particular, the API provided by the fd files to scale the fonts (DeclareLucidaFontShape) is now documented.

The Lucida typeface family was designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. (R) Lucida is a trademark of Bigelow & Holmes Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and other jurisdictions.

i have installed the both sets of files at cambridge, and pushed the results out to the other ctans (and hence to mirrors).

at the same time, i have deleted the (very) old metrics on ctan at fonts/lucida

the new files may be viewed at:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida/ (metrics, etc.) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/lucidabr/ (macros, etc.)

and users may download them from:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida.zip (metrics, etc.) http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/lucidabr.zip (macros, etc.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team