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Keno Wehr submitted an update to the

autotype

package.

Version: 0.6 2026-04-27
License: lppl1.3 mit other-free

Summary description: A LuaLaTeX package for automatic language-specific typography

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* hyphenation:
- insert primary and secondary hyphenation points only where a regular hyphenation point is present (avoids wrong hyphenations in some cases)
- add support for irregular hyphenations backen raA bak-ken, Schiffahrt raA Schiff-fahrt, Schwimmeister raA Schwimm-meister of the traditional German orthography
- take into account local values of \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin (instead of just using 2 for both)

* ligature suppression:
- option rename: ligbreak=on raA ligatures=selective, ligbreak=off raA ligatures=default
- command rename: \noligbreak raA \keepligatures
- keep font kerning at word boundaries (instead of just using 0pt)

* adaptions for the new language names of babel-german v3

* manual:
- use syntax highlighting
- improved documentation for Missaali font concerning round r
- document problem with \hyphenationmin primitive
- document problem concerning ligature suppression with ZWNJ and HarfBuzz
- document problem concerning ligature suppression and individual kerning

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This package is located at
https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/latex/autotype

More information is at
https://ctan.org/pkg/autotype


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Manfred Lotz


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