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...
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