Linux Libertine 4.1.8 released

Our project is proud to announce version 4.1.8 of our open source font
Linux Libertine.


Extract of the ChangeLog:


Changes to version 4.1.8 in the styles /regular/ (-) & /italic/ (/) and /capitals/ (C)
(2008-11-03)
- finer and more organic serifs for nearly all glyphs
- basic EM-background proportion changed to 726 (above base line) and 472 (below the baseline) 
- Font? bounds/linespacing in TTF and OTF adjusted
- E, F: a bit thinner now
- A,V,W,v,w design improvements in diagonals
- some small improvements in spacing of small basic latin charakters
- reduced overshoot for wide-round contours
- a, e: small designchange
- m is a little wider now
- basic working EM is now 1000 instead of 2048
- tz-ligature
- z? diagonal is a bit thicker, the horizontals a bit thinner, now
- new glyphs like curl for bible studies
- shortened few overbounding glyphs
- improvements in polytonic greek
- J, j: change in design of the bow and drop
- There was a compiling-problem with the LinLibertine_Re-2.8.14.otf that caused an unusable
GSUB-table. Though outline-information seemed to be unaffected MacOSX didn? want to intall it.
- Change in the OpenType-Substitution table (different order of interpretation: sups and sinf
should be substituted even if oldstyle flag is also set.
/ True Cyrrillic italics for the italic variant
/ new ?a? for the italic, also thinner p, n, m and e
/ Some stylistic improvements for italic numbers
/ new @ for the italic
- further kerning
/ improved accented characters in the italic variant 
- Q? tail is now more harmonic and looks as drawn out of the O and not as just clipped to the
bottom
- Qu (Q_u) has been improved and is now standard ligature
- new form for s_t- and c_t-ligature, thanks to Nathan!
- OpenType-GSUB-table has been improved. New functionality for Romanian and Moldavian (comma-accent
instead of cedilla), for Turky (idotaccent.sc is chosen when Tyrkish is default language,
otherwiese i.sc is the small capital form used; f_i_{}-ligatures are set off in Turkish because it
hinders the differenciation of f_i and f_dotlessi in that language.
/ Italic variant now uses the same perfect OpenType-GSUB as the regular.
/ new a.sc for the italic. Adding missing sc-glyphs, bring others to the latest design.


XeTex tutorial which will enable all typography gourmets to make use of
Libertine? comprehensive OpenType-features:
http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/Libertine-XeTex-EN.pdf
<http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/XeTex/Libertine-XeT...>


Please visit our homepage for further information:

http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net
<http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/>


Thanks!


Philipp H. Poll


Libertine Open Fonts Projekt - http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net
<http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/>




*Appendix*


Press:

- Bruce Byfield (2006): /?//Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times
Roman alternative?/, http://www.linux.com/articles/56565

- Forrest Cook / LWN (2008):* */?The Linux Libertine Open Fonts
Project?, /http://lwn.net/Articles/263610/

- Hans-Joachim Baader / Pro-Linux (2008): /?Libertine Open Fonts in
Version 2.7.9?,/* *http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/12157.html

*- *Meerbusch (2007): /?//Bahn frei für das große ?Eszett??/,
http://rhein-zeitung.de/on/07/10/05/service/computer/tipp...


Wikipedia:

English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine

Deutsch:
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine

Italiano: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine