Did you see? As of June 2025, there’s a new version of the Gentium font family. The designers have enhanced kerning and hinting, oldstyle numbers and Greek, and you can use it as a variable font with a weight axis. https://software.sil.org/gentium/v7changes/ Hraban
On 11/29/2025 12:02 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Did you see? As of June 2025, there’s a new version of the Gentium font family. The designers have enhanced kerning and hinting, oldstyle numbers and Greek, and you can use it as a variable font with a weight axis.
Attached an update (adaptive) of the typescript (I'm not interested in the variable font, I prefer consistent weights for such fonts.) Should we keep book and plus as the old book and plus? After all these are rather incompatible changes. When the old files are found these win. I'm not sure how often this font is used but should we swap them in the default font set in the installer? THose who depend on the old metrics then need to save these files in texmf-local/fonts/data. Thomas has to check it as he's mentioned in the typescript. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
I'll check the typescript and the font this week. IMO, it doesn't make sense to keep several versions of gentium; they all save the same purpose (and the new version looks quite complete). I'll get back to you later! All best Thomas On 11/30/25 11:27 PM, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
Thomas has to check it as he's mentioned in the typescript.
Hans
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