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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=<number> or
scale=<number> 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)