CTAN update: mathastext

the daemon told me: > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: mathastext > Author's name: Jean-François Burnol > Package version: 1.15c > Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/mathastext > Summary description: Use the text font in simple mathematics > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Optimal typographical results for documents containing > mathematical symbols can only be hoped for with math fonts > specifically designed to match a given text typeface. > Although the list of freely available math fonts (alongside > the Computer Modern and AMS extension fonts) is slowly > expanding (fourier, kpfonts, mathdesign, pxfonts, txfonts, > and others...) it remains limited, and the situation is even > worse with Unicode fonts (XeTeX/LuaTeX). So if you can't > find a math font which fits well with your favorite text > font, and wish to still be able to typeset mathematical > documents, perhaps not of the highest typographical quality, > but at least not subjected to obvious visual incompatibi- > -lities between your text font and the math fonts, > try out mathastext: it will simply use the text font also > for the math! > > New with 1.15c: > > + it is now possible to use multiple distinct LGR encoded > fonts for the Greek letters in math mode, one for each math > version. > > + improved documentation. > > New with 1.15: > > + with the subdued option the action of mathastext can be > limited to a portion of your document. thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mathastext.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mathastext/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team