CTAN update: amiri font

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Thu May 31 17:38:27 CEST 2012


the daemon tells me
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: amiri
> Author's name: Khaled Hosny
> Author's email: khaledhosny at eglug.org
> Package version: 0.103
> 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:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> * This is a bug fix release:
>  - Fix wrong kerning of digits inside end of ayah and other Arabic enclosing
>    marks.
>  - Add visible glyphs for BiDi control characters.
>  - Kern more kaf forms accross ZWNJ.
>  - Fix handling of right-slanting and left-slanting common characters in the
>    italic fonts to be more logical.
 
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



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