CTAN update: autotype

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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

Announcement text:
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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 → bak-ken, Schiffahrt → Schiff-fahrt, Schwimmeister → 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 → ligatures=selective, ligbreak=off → ligatures=default
  - command rename: \noligbreak → \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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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz


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