CTAN update: amiri-font

the daemon wrote:

An upload to cam.ctan.org is in /anfs/ctan-inc/upload-20120719-104024/

Name of contribution: amiri-font Author's name: Khaled Hosny Package version: 0.104 Location on CTAN: /fonts/amiri Summary description: Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface, Naskh style, for typesetting books and other running text. License type: other-free

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

• New glyphs:

  • New localised slash glyph, to align better with Arabic digits.
  • New, less bulky Arabic @ sign.
  • Proportional digits (‘pnum’ feature).

• Fixes:

  • Give some room to the low small waw.
  • Fix seen tooth with ss02.
  • Fix raa with inverted v above.
  • Improve medial kaf of kaf-mem-alef
  • Make subtending marks work with Firefox (and other HarfBuzz based applications).
  • Arabic number sign (U+0600) now accepts a 4th digits, and is made a bit wider, to avoid collision with wide digits.
  • Fix combining Qur'anic madda with inverted damma.
  • Drop the Th ligature.
  • Other miscellaneous fixes.

• Kerning:

  • Kern final lam-alef with kaf.

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/amiri-font.html or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/amiri/

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team