CTAN update: amiri

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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Announcement required: Yes 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... > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/amiri > or they may browse the package directory at > http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/amiri/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team