the daemon wrote:

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: amiri-font Author's name: Khaled Hosny Package version: 0.102 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:

  • The largest feature of this release is adding Latin script support based on Crimson font, covering latin-0 to 9 code pages as well as all characters used in common Arabic romanisation schemes (no including IPA) and other common punctuation characters.
  • Beh with small v below (U+08A0).
  • Basmala symbol (U+FDFD).

• Fixes:

  • New contextual shape for final open heh-yaa combination.
  • New contextual shape for final faa-yaa combination.
  • New contextual shape for knotted heh-yaa baree.
  • New, improved and more open hmaza wasl.
  • Larger and more readable shadda, regular and Qur'anic sukun.
  • Larger and more readable Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam symbol (U+FDFA).
  • Improved dot placement of initial baa-like glyphs.
  • Improved dot placement of kaf-baa-alef combination.
  • Improved placement of dagger alef on regular glyphs.
  • Wider final alef with madda to avoid clash between madda and next glyphs.
  • Improved kaf-meem-alef, kaf-alef combinations at smaller sizes on screen.
  • Improve kaf-lam-final meem.
  • Avoid initial/medial kaf clash with next glyph's dots.
  • Improved medial and final sad connecting part.

• Kerning:

  • More efficient kerning feature using contextual positioning
  • Reduce dal/raa-kaf kerning to avoid dot clash
  • More positive kerning for raa-intial yaa.
  • Make kerning across ZWNJ work with Uniscribe.

• Bug fixes: #1347860, #3471042, #3475146, #3509875

• Misc.:

  • Duplicate 'locl' in 'ccmp' to work around engines not supporting the former.
  • Smaller, MTX compressed EOT files.

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

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/amiri.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/amiri/

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) on the web, by tomorrow morning (Cambridge time).

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team