i was out eating at my son's place, when the daemon reported:

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

Name of contribution: amiri-font Author's name: Khaled Hosny Package version: 0.1 Location on CTAN: fonts/amiri/ Summary description: Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface, Naskh style, for typesetting books and other run­ning text. License type: ofl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

This is a beta release in the sense that I retain the right to do any metric incompatible changes in the future, other than that the font is largely usable. The font covers Arabic and Arabic Supplement blocks of Unicode 6.0, which means it essentially covers any language written in Arabic script and supported by Unicode.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new package, and created an entry for it in the catalogue repository.

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

The catalogue entry will first appear overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team