[OS X TeX] Gentium with MacTeX 2025

[G. M.-S.]

Just in case, 2 messages on CTAN about the old Gentium and the 2 new ones.

HTH,

Guillermo

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From: Erik Braun via ctan-ann <ctan-ann at ctan.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 14:38
Subject: New on CTAN: gentium-otf
To: <ctan-ann at ctan.org>

Herbert Voß submitted the

                gentium-otf

package.

Version number: 0.01
License type: lppl1.3

Summary description: Support for the TrueType font GentiumPlus

Announcement text:
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Package gentium-otf supports the free font GentiumPlus
and GentiumBookPlus as TrueType (see package gentium-sil)
and defines missing typefaces. All font features are
available by special macros.

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This package is located at
   https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/gentium-otf

More information is at
   https://www.ctan.org/pkg/gentium-otf

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun

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From: CTAN Announcements via ctan-ann <ctan-ann at ctan.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 21:32
Subject: New on CTAN: gentium-sil
To: <ctan-ann at ctan.org>

Karl Berry submitted the

                gentium-sil

package.

Version: 6.200
License: ofl

Summary description: A complete Greek font with Latin and Cyrillic, too

Announcement text:
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This new gentium-sil package replaces the previous gentium-tug;
gentium-sil is a redistribution of the original SIL release
(https://software.sil.org/gentium/), with no changes of any kind.

Specifically, it is no longer feasible to continue with the
conversion of Gentium to Type 1 that was the purpose of gentium-tug. The
original character definitions have intersecting splines, and there is
no way to reliably convert them to Type 1. My summary of the situation:
https://tug.org/pipermail/gentium/2024q4/000072.html

Therefore all we can do here is redistribute the original TrueType
fonts. (If anyone would like to come forward to create the necessary
support files for pdftex to use the TrueType fonts, that would be welcome.)

Any issues and discussion about the redistribution on CTAN, etc., can be
sent to the gentium at tug.org mailing list (archives and subscription at
https://lists.tug.org/gentium). Problems with the fonts themselves
should be reported to SIL; see info at
https://software.sil.org/gentium/support.

Herbert Voss expects to release a companion gentium-ttf support package
soon to provide convenient access to the font features provided in Gentium.

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This package is located at
   https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/gentium-sil

More information is at
   https://www.ctan.org/pkg/gentium-sil

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On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 at 13:50, Herbert Schulz via MacOSX-TeX <
macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:

>
> > On Apr 12, 2025, at 5:16 AM, Axel E. Retif <axel.retif at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/12/25 01:14, David Craig wrote:
> >
> >> Since updating to MacTeX 2025, I can’t get the gentium fonts to work
> with pdflatex.
> >> Previously, I had
> >> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> >> \usepackage{gentium}
> >> in my preamble to use the gentium fonts.
> >> Since installing macTeX 2025, this now results in
> >> LaTeX Error: File ‘gentium.sty’ not found.
> >
> > Indeed. On Linux with TL2025 there isn't a gentium.sty either, just
> gentium-otf.sty; whereas in TL2024 there is gentium.sty and the T1 fonts.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Axel
>
> Howdy,
>
> Runnning `texdoc gentium` with TL2025 brings up documentation that only
> discusses the gentium-otf package.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> herbs2 at mac.com
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