CTAN update: amiri-font

[CTAN Announcements]

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