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This is the README for the librecaslon package, version
-2020-07-24.
+2020-07-28.
-This package provides the Libre Caslon family of fonts,
-designed by Pablo Impallari for use with xeLaTeX or
-luaLaTeX.
+This package provides the Libre Caslon Text family of fonts,
+designed by Pablo Impallari. An artificially generated
+BoldItalic variant has been added.
To install this package on a TDS-compliant
TeX system download the file
@@ -11,18 +11,18 @@ TeX system download the file
preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirror.ctan.org.
Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree,
likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the
-file-name database (e.g., texhash).
+file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map
+files by enabling the Map file LibreCaslon.map.
To use, add
\usepackage{librecaslon}
to the preamble of your document. This will activate Libre
-Caslon Text as the main (serifed) text font. A bold italic
-variant of Libre Caslon is not currently available.
+Caslon Text as the main (serifed) text font.
-Options scaled=<number> or scale=<number> may be used to scale the
-fonts.
+Options scaled=<number> or scale=<number> may be used to
+scale the fonts.
The default figure style is proportional lining but options
osf (or oldstyle) and tf (or tabular) allow for use of
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ The fonts (version 1.002) were obtained from
https://github.com/impallari/Libre-Caslon-Text
and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License (version
-1.1); the text may be found in the doc directory. The rest
-of the package is licensed under the terms of the LaTeX
-Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is
-Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca)
+1.1); the text may be found in the doc directory. The
+BoldItalic variant and the type1 fonts were generated from
+them by fontforge or cfftot1. The rest of the package
+is licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
+License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt
+at cs.queensu.ca)