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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/fira/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/fira/README index 5e4e40e0856..203b66e92d1 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/fira/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/fira/README @@ -1,16 +1,21 @@ -This is the README for the fira package, version 2014-03-16. - -This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support -for the Fira Sans family of fonts (version 2.001), designed by Erik -Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois of Carrois Type Design. Fira Sans -is available in four weights with corresponding italics: light, -regular, medium, and bold. - -To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system download the -file "tex-archive"/install/fonts/fira.tds.zip where the preferred -URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirrors.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). +This is the README for the fira package, version 2014-11-20. + +This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX +support for the Fira Sans family of fonts (version 3.111), +designed by Erik Spiekermann and Ralph du Carrois of +Carrois Type Design. Fira Sans is available in seventeen +weights, but six of these are considered "experimental". The +remaining eleven weights (with corresponding italics) are +supported with this package: Thin, UltraLight, ExtraLight, +Light, Book, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, +Heavy. + +To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system +download the file "tex-archive"/install/fonts/fira.tds.zip +where the preferred URL for "tex-archive" is +http://mirrors.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). Update the font-map files by enabling the Map file fira.map. To use, add @@ -35,22 +40,24 @@ the tabular (or tf) option will change the default to tabular Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, LY1 and TS1. -The medium option activates that series as the default bold series. -The light option activates that series as the default regular -series. +The medium, semibold, extrabold and heavy options activate +those series as the default bold series. The book, light, +extralight, ultralight and thin options activate those +series as the default regular series. Commands \firaoldstyle, \firalining, \firatabular, and -\firaproportional allow for localized use of non-default figures. -Superior numbers are available using \sufigures. Commands \firalight -and \firamedium allow for localized use of those series. +\firaproportional allow for localized use of non-default +figures. Superior numbers are available using \sufigures. +Commands \firathin, \firalight etc. allow for localized use +of those series. The original OpenType fonts were obtained from -https://github.com/buildingfirefoxos/Building-Blocks/tree/gh-pages/fonts/FiraSans +http://www.carrois.com/en/fira-3-1/ -and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1; -the text may be found in the doc directory. The type1 versions -were created using autoinst. The support files were created using -autoinst and are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project -Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt -at cs.queensu.ca) +and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, version +1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory. The type1 +versions were created using cfftot1. The support files were +created using autoinst and are licensed under the terms of +the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this +package is Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca). |