[gentium-commits] [SCM] gentium updated: r151 - trunk/gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/gentium- [more]

[Pavel Farar]

Author: pavel
Date: 2022-05-27 10:09:59 +0000 (Fri, 27 May 2022)
New Revision: 151

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

- still incomplete
- gentium.pdf not regenerated


Modified: trunk/gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/gentium-tug/gentium.tex
===================================================================
--- trunk/gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/gentium-tug/gentium.tex	2022-05-25 13:39:51 UTC (rev 150)
+++ trunk/gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/gentium-tug/gentium.tex	2022-05-27 10:09:59 UTC (rev 151)
@@ -240,6 +240,31 @@
 You can also use \verb|\usepackage{gentiumbook}|, which will set the
 Gentium Book Plus family.
 
+The package \verb|gentium| uses not only the family GentiumPlus, but also the
+family GentiumBookPlus for additional weights (semi bold and extra bold).
+Likewise, the package \verb|gentiumbook| uses not only the family
+GentiumBookPlus, but also the family GentiumPlus for additional weights (semi
+light and semi bold).  That means that both packages enable access to all eight
+fonts.  The difference is which fonts are used for the most common weights
+medium and bold and which weights are added.  You can see it in
+table~\ref{weights}.
+
+\begin{table}[h]
+\centering
+  \begin{tabular}{llrr}
+    \toprule
+    upright font & italic font & gentium & gentiumbook \\
+    \midrule
+    GentiumPlus-Regular & \textit{GentiumPlus-Italic} & \textbf{m} & sl \\
+    \usefont{T1}{gentium}{sb}{n} GentiumBookPlus-Regular & \usefont{T1}{gentium}{sb}{it} GentiumBookPlus-Italic & sb & \textbf{m} \\
+    \usefont{T1}{gentium}{b}{n} GentiumPlus-Bold & \usefont{T1}{gentium}{b}{it} GentiumPlus-BoldItalic & \textbf{b} & sb \\
+    \usefont{T1}{gentium}{eb}{n} GentiumBookPlus-Bold & \usefont{T1}{gentium}{eb}{it} GentiumBookPlus-BoldItalic & eb & \textbf{b} \\
+    \bottomrule
+  \end{tabular}
+  \caption{Available weights.}
+  \label{weights}
+\end{table}
+
 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
@@ -262,6 +287,7 @@
 \setlogodrop[TeX]{.45ex}% default .5ex
 \end{verbatim}
 
+
 \subsection{Changes in the Type~1 fonts vs.\ the TrueType originals}
 
 The shapes of all characters in the Type~1 fonts are the same as in the