New CTAN package: amiri-font

[CTAN Announcements]

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