This is the README for libertine, version 5.3.0 (2012-11-19). This package provides support for use of the Linux Libertine and Linux Biolinum families of fonts with LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, xeLaTeX and luaLaTeX. It is intended to replace several existing packages (libertine-type1, biolinum-type1, libertine) and should provide partial compatibilty with libertineotf and the obsolete libertine-legacy package. To install this package on a TDS-compliant TeX system unzip the file /install/fonts/libertine.tds.zip 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 libertine.map. For most purposes, simply add \usepackage{libertine} to the preamble of your document. This will activate Libertine as the main (serifed) text font and Biolinum as the sans font. It is recommended that the font encoding be set to T1 or LY1, but the default OT1 encoding is supported. Available shapes in all series include: it italic sc small caps scit italic small caps Slanted variants are not supported; the designed italic variants will be automatically substituted. The exception is the bold series of Biolinum, for which a designed italic is not currently available. An artificially slanted variant has been generated and treated as if it were italic. To activate Libertine without Biolinum, use \usepackage[rm]{libertine} Similarly, to activate Biolinum without Libertine use \usepackage[sf]{libertine} To use Biolinum as the main text font (as well as the sans font), use the option sfdefault (which redefines \familydefault, but not \rmdefault). LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or who wish to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option; libertine-type1 and biolinum-type1 wrapper packages are included to provide compatibility with the older packages. For legacy documents that use only basic facilities of libertineotf, a similar wrapper script is provided in the doc/fonts/libertine directory; this may be tested by copying it to a directory that has priority over the libertineotf.sty in the libertineotf package. The following options are available in all of these: oldstyle,osf old-style figures lining,nf,lf lining figures proportional varying-width figures tabular fixed-width figures The defaults are oldstyle and proportional. The semibold option will set \bfdefault to sb to allow using the semi-bold series of Libertine; this has no effect on the Biolinum fonts, for which there is no semi-bold variant. The options scaled= or scale= will scale the Biolinum fonts but have no effect on the Libertine fonts. Commands \oldstylenums{...} and \oldstylenumsf{...} are defined to allow for local use of old-style figures in Libertine and Biolinum, respectively, if lining is the default, and similarly \liningnums{...} and \liningnumsf{...}. The opentype directory also has several additional fonts which can be activated using fontspec (in xeLaTeX or luaLaTeX): a display font (LinLibertine530_DR), a font of large initials (LinLibertine530_I), a keyboard font (LinBiolinum530_K), and a monospaced font (LinLibertine530_M). The original opentype fonts were created by Philipp H. Poll (gillian at linuxlibertine.org) and are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (Version 2, with font exception) and under the terms of the Open Font License. For details look into the doc directory of the distribution or at http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Three of the Libertine fonts were modified by Michael Sharpe (msharpe at ucsd.edu) using fontforge to correct minor problems, including adding three missing ligatures (fl, ffl, ffi) to the bold-italic font. Thanks to Herbert Voss, Patrick Gundlach and Silke Hofstra for their assistance. The type1 fonts were created using fontforge. The support files were created using autoinst. The support files are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdt at cs.queensu.ca)