ctan-ann - realscripts

New CTAN package: realscripts

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:59:31 +0200

Will Robertson has sent us:

> name:           realscripts
> me:             Will Robertson
> description:    Access OpenType subscript and superscripts
> location:       macros/latex/contrib/realscripts
> 
> \begin{release text}
> Small package to replace `\textsuperscript` & `\textsubscript`
> by equivalent commands that use OpenType font features
> to access the appropriate glyphs if possible.
> 
> Also patches LaTeX's default footnote command to use this
> new `\textsuperscript` for footnote symbols.
> 
> Requires fontspec running on either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

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ctan update: realscripts

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:12:03 +0200

the daemon's getting back into the swing of things:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: realscripts
> Author's name: Will Robertson
> Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/realscripts
> Summary description: Access OpenType subscripts and superscripts
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The previous redefinition of the footnote mark followed the LaTeX2e default, but 
> this clobbered KOMA-Scripts redefinition.
> 
> The release of realscripts now plays nicely with KOMA-Script's footnote font 

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CTAN update: realscripts

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:42:01 +0200

This should be at your local mirror.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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Announcement: is requested
Update summary:
This small package replaces \textsuperscript and \textsubscript commands
by equivalent  commands that use OpenType font features to access
appropriate glyphs if possible.

Version 0.3 contains the following changes:

  * New commands \textsubsuperscript and \textsupersubscript added.

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