New on CTAN: texnegar
The kashida justification in “xepersian” has many bugs. These bugs are fixed in this package, and in addition to the XeTeX engine, it can be used with the LuaTeX engine, too.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/texnegar The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/texnegar/
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texnegar – Kashida justification in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
In some cursive scripts such as Persian or Arabic, kashida is used to create justification. In this type of justification characters are elongated rather than expanding spaces between words.
The kashida justification in xepersian has many bugs. Also it has problems with some fonts. The xepersian-hm package was the first attempt to fix these bugs in xepersian, which uses the XeTeX engine.
This package extends the kashida justification to be used with the LuaTeX engine, too.
Explanation of the package name:
Negar, in Persian, is the present stem of negaashtan
meaning to design, to paint, to write;
and as a noun it means “sweetheart, idol, beloved, figuratively referring
to a beautiful woman, pattern, painting, and artistic design”.
| Package | texnegar |
| Version | 0.1e 2021-02-09 |
| Copyright | 2020–2021 Hossein Movahhedian |
| Maintainer | Hossein Movahhedian |