New on CTAN: font-change-xetex
The package "font-change-xetex" consists of macros that can be used to typeset "plain" XeTeX documents using any OpenType or TrueType font installed on the computer system. The macros allow the user to change the text mode fonts and some math mode fonts. For any declared font family, various font style, weight, and size variants like bold, italics, small caps, etc., are available through standard and custom TeX control statements. Using the optional argument of the macros, the available XeTeX font features and OpenType tags can be accessed. Other features of the package include activating and deactivating hanging punctuation, and support for special Unicode characters. For more information, please refer to the documentation (font-change-xetex.pdf).
The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/font-change-xetex The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/plain/font-change-xetex/ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
font-change-xetex – Macros to change text and mathematics fonts in plain XeTeX
This package consists of macros that can be used to typeset “plain” XeTeX documents using any OpenType or TrueType font installed on the computer system.
The macros allow the user to change the text mode fonts and some math mode fonts. For any declared font family, various font style, weight, and size variants like bold, italics, small caps, etc., are available through standard and custom TeX control statements. Using the optional argument of the macros, the available XeTeX font features and OpenType tags can be accessed.
Other features of the package include activating and deactivating hanging punctuation, and support for special Unicode characters.
| Package | font-change-xetex |
| Version | 2016.1 |
| Maintainer | Amit Raj Dhawan |