New on CTAN: lua-unicode-math
Date: December 13, 2025 8:35:09 AM CET
Marcel Krüger submitted the
lua-unicode-math
package.
Version: 0.2 2025-12-11
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: OpenType Math font support for LuaLaTeX
Announcement text:
Modern LaTeX engines support Unicode based input and Unicode based fonts in the OpenType format, making LaTeX more compatible with newly developed fonts. OpenType also supports mathematical fonts containing a special MATH table to contain metrics needed for mathematical typesetting. These fonts offer many advantages over traditional TeX math fonts, including a very big selection of available symbols and better accessibility support. These fonts can be used in LaTeX with the unicode-math package, which comes with a significant performance overhead and is incompatible with other math fonts. lua-unicode-math is an experimental package to provide a faster alternative in LuaLaTeX which integrates better with LaTeX’s internal support for math families and therefore also makes it easier to combine it with traditional font packages.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/lua-unicode-math The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/lua-unicode-math/
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
Modern LaTeX engines support Unicode based input and Unicode based fonts in the OpenType format, making LaTeX more compatible with newly developed fonts. OpenType also supports mathematical fonts containing a special MATH table to contain metrics needed for mathematical typesetting. These fonts offer many advantages over traditional TeX math fonts, including a very big selection of available symbols and better accessibility support. These fonts can be used in LaTeX with the unicode-math package, which comes with a significant performance overhead and is incompatible with other math fonts. lua-unicode-math is an experimental package to provide a faster alternative in LuaLaTeX which integrates better with LaTeX’s internal support for math families and therefore also makes it easier to combine it with traditional font packages.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/lua-unicode-math The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/lua-unicode-math/
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
lua-unicode-math – OpenType Math font support for LuaLaTeX
A faster and more compatible package to support using OpenType math fonts in LuaLaTeX as an alternative for unicode-math.
| Package | lua-unicode-math |
| Version | 0.2 2025-12-11 |
| Copyright | 2025 Marcel Krueger |
| Maintainer | Marcel Krüger |