This is the README for version 2.218 (2025-09-01) of the
variable variant of Peter S. Baker's Junicode fonts.

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of
the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of
interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode
Font Initiative (MUFI), with its wealth of specialized
medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType
features that allow users to access MUFI characters in
accessible ways.

This package provides the variable version, in
which all the capabilities of the traditional “static”
version - and more! - are packaged in just two files.
The variable version is especially suitable for web use,
but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign,
LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the
file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

This version of Junicode adds more than forty new glyphs
for the Ansund project. It also adjusts the slant of
proportional old-style figures; fixes an occasional problem
with the combining dot accent; fixes a bug in the junicodevf
LaTeX package; adds a couple of archaic phonetic characters;
and fixes a bug that prevented the correct operation of a
shortcut key combination in Adobe InDesign.

This release fixes a bug that prevented some contextual
kerning rules from working properly.

To install this package on a TDS-compliant
TeX system download the file
"tex-archive"/install/fonts/junicodevf.tds.zip where the
preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirrors.ctan.org.
Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree,
likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the
file-name database (e.g., texhash).

Load JunicodeVF in the usual way, with

  \usepackage{junicodevf}. 

Several options are available:

light 

  The weight of the type for the main text is Light instead
  of Regular.

medium 

  The weight of the type for the main text is Medium,
  somewhat heavier than Regular.

semibold 

  The weight of bold type is somewhat lighter than the usual
  bold. This may be a good choice if you have selected the
  light option.

condensed 

  The width of the type is narrow. Note that bold type
  cannot be condensed: when this option is selected, any
  bold type in the text will have normal width.

semicondensed 

  The width of the type is narrower than the default but
  wider than condensed. Note that bold type cannot be
  semicondensed: when this option is selected, any bold type
  in the text will have normal width.

expanded 

  The width of the type is wide. Note that light type cannot
  be expanded: using both the light and the expanded options
  will produce an error.


semiexpanded 

  The width of the type is wider than the default but
  narrower than expanded. Note that light type cannot be
  semiexpanded: using both the light and the semiexpanded
  options will produce an error.

Selecting Alternate Styles

The Junicode font comes in thirty-eight styles: nineteen
roman and nineteen italic. You can switch to any of these
styles with one of the following commands, which will be
self-explanatory if you keep these abbreviations in mind: 
Sm = Semi, Cond = Condensed, Exp = Expanded.

\jBold
\jBoldItalic
\jCond
\jCondItalic
\jCondLight
\jCondLightItalic
\jCondMedium
\jCondMediumItalic
\jExp
\jExpItalic
\jExpBold
\jExpBoldItalic
\jExpMedium
\jExpMediumItalic
\jExpSmbold
\jExpSmboldItalic
\jItalic
\jLight
\jLightItalic
\jMedium
\jMediumItalic
\jRegular
\jSmbold
\jSmboldItalic
\jSmCond
\jSmCondItalic
\jSmCondLight
\jSmCondLightItalic
\jSmCondMedium
\jSmCondMediumItalic
\jSmExp
\jSmExpItalic
\jSmExpBold
\jSmExpBoldItalic
\jSmExpMedium
\jSmExpMediumItalic
\jSmExpSmbold
\jSmExpSmboldItalic

There are additional commands and options; see
JunicodeManual.pdf in the doc directory.

The ttf fonts have been downloaded from

https://github.com/psb1558/Junicode-font 

and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, (version
1.1); the text may be found in the doc directory.

The documentation and the LuaLaTeX support is by Peter Baker
and is licensed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
License. This README is by Bob Tennent and is licensed
under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. The
maintainer of this package is Bob Tennent (rdtennent at
gmail dot com).
