CTAN update: japanese-otf
Date: July 25, 2025 5:24:24 PM CEST
The Japanese TeX Development Community submitted an update to the
japanese-otf
bundle.
Version: 2025-07-24
License: bsd3
Summary description: Advanced font selection for platex and its friends
Announcement text:
Based on japanese-otf-uptex Ver.0.32. japanese-otf-uptex: * Support Unicode variation sequences (SVS) in Chinese/Korean plain text. * Enable to use Unicode/CID base multi-weight virtual fonts for \UTF*{}, \CID*{} macros with platex. * Add option 'subfont' to use conventional virtual fonts by subfont scheme for \UTF*{}, \CID*{} macros with platex. For platex only: * Remove conventional vf's and tfm's by subfont scheme for \UTF{C,T,K}{}, \CID{C,T,K}{} macros from the archive.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/japanese-otf The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/jptex/latex/japanese-otf/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
Based on japanese-otf-uptex Ver.0.32. japanese-otf-uptex: * Support Unicode variation sequences (SVS) in Chinese/Korean plain text. * Enable to use Unicode/CID base multi-weight virtual fonts for \UTF*{}, \CID*{} macros with platex. * Add option 'subfont' to use conventional virtual fonts by subfont scheme for \UTF*{}, \CID*{} macros with platex. For platex only: * Remove conventional vf's and tfm's by subfont scheme for \UTF{C,T,K}{}, \CID{C,T,K}{} macros from the archive.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/japanese-otf The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/jptex/latex/japanese-otf/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
japanese-otf – Advanced font selection for platex and its friends
The package contains pLaTeX support files and virtual fonts for supporting a wide variety of fonts in LaTeX using the pTeX engine.
| Package | japanese-otf |
| Version | 2025-07-24 |
| Copyright | 2003–2019 SAITO Shuzaburo and INOUE Koichi 2007–2025 TANAKA Takuji 2017–2025 Japanese TeX Development Community |
| Maintainer | Norbert Preining Takuji Tanaka Japanese TeX Development Community |