texlive-unicode-alphabets 2025.2

Macros for using characters from Unicode's Private Use Area

While Unicode supports the vast majority of use cases, there are certain specialized niches which require characters and glyphs not (yet) represented in the standard. Thus the Private Use Area (PUA) at code points E000-F8FF, which enables third parties to define arbitrary character sets. This package allows configuring a number of macros for using various PUA character sets in LaTeX (AGL, CYFI, MUFI, SIL, TITUS, UCSUR, UNZ), to enable transcription and display of medieval and other documents.

Outputs: doc, out
Website: https://ctan.org/pkg/unicode-alphabets
Licenses: CC-BY-SA 4.0
Package source: gnu/packages/tex.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install texlive-unicode-alphabets 2025.2 as follows:

guix install texlive-unicode-alphabets@2025.2

Or install the latest version:

guix install texlive-unicode-alphabets

The texlive-unicode-alphabets package provides more outputs besides the default (out). You can install them by appending :output-name to the package specification. For example:

guix install texlive-unicode-alphabets:doc

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.