CTAN Update: libertinus - ctan-ann

13 May 2017


      Khaled Hosny submitted an update to the
libertinus
package.
Version:  6.3  2017-05-12
License:  ofl
Summary description:  The Libertinus font family
Announcement text:
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- Add U+231C-231Fi and U+2A7D-2A7E to the math font.
- Add script math alphabet based on that of XITS Math font.
- Add monospaced math alphabet based on that of cmtt10 font with
   modified METAFONT parameters to better fit with Libertinus glyphs.
- Improve math top accent positions.
- Fix spacing of math italic i and j.
- Increase the gap between sum and its limits.
- Improved math braces and brackets based on STIX Two Math font.
- Disable optical variants of math alphanumerics that were based on
   the text sup/superscript glyphs as they don’t look good besides
   being incomplete and inconsistent.
- Remove duplicate glyphs that caused broken GPOS generation.
- Drop optical bounds (‘opbd’, ‘rtbd’ and ‘lfbd’) features as they
   were incomplete and virtually unsupported.
- Fix text mark placement below O and o.
- Fix oldstyle numbers feature in Libertinus Serif Semibold that
   had wrong glyph mapping for 6, 7, 8 and 9.
- Use swash Q when followed by v.
- Various consistency fixes to font names and vertical metrics.
- Fix placement of the half ring in U+1E9A.
- Fix several Libertinus Serif Bold italic alternate glyphs that
   were not bold.
- Fix Libertinus Serif Italic U+2098-2099 (subscript m and n) that
   looked like superscript circled + and -.
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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/libertinus
The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/libertinus/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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