CTAN update: amiri-font

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