[gentium-commits] [SCM] gentium updated: r133 - trunk/gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/gentium- [more]

Pavel Far?? INVALID.NOREPLY at gnu.org.ua
Mon May 16 14:20:42 CEST 2022


Author: pavel
Date: 2022-05-16 12:20:41 +0000 (Mon, 16 May 2022)
New Revision: 133

Modified:
   trunk/gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/gentium-tug/gentium.tex
Log:
update gentium.tex

gentium.pdf still not regenerated


Modified: trunk/gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/gentium-tug/gentium.tex
===================================================================
--- trunk/gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/gentium-tug/gentium.tex	2022-05-15 22:07:28 UTC (rev 132)
+++ trunk/gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/gentium-tug/gentium.tex	2022-05-16 12:20:41 UTC (rev 133)
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@
 \verb|\usepackage{gentium}| to your document preamble. This will set
 the default serif/roman family to \fname{gentium}.
 
+You can also use \verb|\usepackage{gentiumbook}|, which will set the
+Gentium Book Plus family.
+
 If you want to use Gentium together with another font (sans or
 typewriter) with a different x-height, you should consider using the
 option \verb|scaled|. This scales Gentium font and if you choose the
@@ -261,8 +264,7 @@
 necessarily different).
 
 However, a few small changes---hopefully improvements---were made to the
-metrics of the GentiumPlus family (that is, regular and italic; bold and
-bold italic are untouched). The Type~1 fonts are used to generate the
+metrics of the GentiumPlus family.  The Type~1 fonts are used to generate the
 \TeX\ font metric files (tfm), so these changes propagate to the 8-bit
 engines like \pdfTeX.
 
@@ -324,13 +326,14 @@
 fonts or at least \pdfTeX\ version 1.40.13 to avoid these problems.
 
 The Gentium fonts are a work in progress and as such they still miss
-some features like kerning pairs for some letters. Currently, there are
-no kerning pairs in the GentiumBasic family at all and the GentiumPlus
+some features like kerning pairs for some letters. Currently,
+the GentiumPlus
 family has kerning pairs just for Latin letters without accents and for
 Greek letters; there are no kerning pairs for small caps, accented Latin
 letters or Cyrillic letters. The Type~1 fonts in this package have some
 additional kerning pairs for accented Latin letters and for small
-caps. Kerning pairs for Cyrillic are under consideration.
+caps. Several kerning pairs were added also for Cyrillic letters, mostly
+the capital ones.
 
 
 \section{License}



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