CTAN update: amiri

the daemon alerted me to:

Name of contribution: amiri Author's name: Khaled Hosny Package version: 0.106 Location on CTAN: fonts/amiri/ Summary description: A classical Arabic typeface, Naskh style License type: ofl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

Amiri 0.106 (2013-05-28)

• New glyphs:

• New, more conventional shape for gaf, the old shape can be activated with “ss04” feature.
• Redrawn Persian digits
• New inverted damma, the old one moved to Urdu-specific “locl“ feature.
• More contextual forms for letter followed by final bari yeh.

• Fixes:

• Add +ve kerning after alef in أثر and أثن.
• Cleanup some bold glyphs.
• Fix ring position of few U+0620 glyphs.
• Lower the marks above wide isolated glyphs.
• Rewrite subtending marks lookups to become much faster.
• Shorten final Alef with tatweel a bit.
• Bigger quotes.
• Increase slant angle of slanted font.
• Use medium sized digits with safha and number signs instead of small ones.
• Many smaller changes.

• Latin:

• Remove the tooth from italic longs.

• License

• Drop the OFL reserved font name clause; no need to rename the font when modifying it anymore.

• A draft user manual (Arabic only for now) is included.

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

i must apologise for the delay in publishing this announcement; life has got on top of me, especially with the massive flood of uploads prior to the freeze of tex live. i am only just getting back to normal...

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/amiri or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/amiri/

Robin Fairbairns

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