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+This is the README for alkalami version 1.000 (2017-05-30).
+
+Alkalami is designed for Arabic-based writing systems in
+the Kano region of Nigeria and Niger. Alkalami (pronounced
+al-KA-la-mi) is the local word for the Arabic "qalam", a
+type of sharpened stick used for writing on wooden boards
+in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger, and what gives
+the style its distinct appearance. The baseline stroke is
+very thick and solid. The ascenders and other vertical
+strokes including the teeth are very narrow when compared
+to the baseline. A generous line height is necessary to
+allow for deep swashes and descenders, and the overall look
+of the page is a very black, solid rectangle. Diacritics
+are much smaller in scale, with very little distance from
+the main letters.
+
+Alkalami supports a subset of the Unicode 9.0 Arabic
+character repertoire. It only includes characters known to
+be used in Modern Standard Arabic and characters known to
+be necessary in a few West African languages.
+
+Font smarts are implemented using the OpenType technology.
+A number of glyph variations are accessible through
+Stylistic Sets available via the OpenType technology.
+
+Alkalami is released under the SIL Open Font License.
+Alkalami is a trademark of SIL International.
+
+See OFL.txt for details of the SIL Open Font License.
+
+For further information about this font, including Unicode
+ranges supported, OpenType font features and how to use
+them, and licensing, please see the documentation on the
+website (http://software.sil.org/alkalami/) or in the
+documentation subfolder of this font package.
+
+Encoding:
+
+The fonts are encoded according to Unicode, so your
+application must support Unicode text in order to access
+letters. For Arabic text, your application must be able to
+handle Right to Left text as well as the initial, medial,
+final forms of each Arabic letter. You will also need some
+way of entering Unicode text into your document.
+
+Keyboarding:
+
+This font does not include any keyboarding helps or
+utilities. You may use the built-in keyboards of the
+operating system. You may also need to install an
+appropriate keyboard and input method for the characters
+of the language you wish to use. If you want to enter
+characters that are not supported by any system keyboard,
+the Keyman program (www.keyman.com) can be helpful on
+Windows systems. Also available for Windows is MSKLC
+(http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx).
+For other platforms, KMFL (http://kmfl.sourceforge.net/),
+XKB (http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB) or Ukelele
+(http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele) can be helpful.
+
+If you want to enter characters that are not supported
+by any system keyboard, and to access the full Unicode
+range, you might try charmap.exe on Windows or, on Ubuntu
+or similar software, gucharmap or kcharselect.
+
+Another method of entering some symbols is provided by a
+few applications such as Adobe InDesign or LibreOffice.org.
+They can display a glyph palette or input dialog that shows
+all the glyphs (symbols) in a font and allow you to enter
+them by clicking on the glyph you want.
+
+Rendering:
+
+This font is designed to work with the OpenType technology.
+To take advantage of the advanced typographic capabilities
+of this font, you must be using applications that provide
+an adequate level of support for OpenType.
+
+For more information see the Alkalami website:
+http://software.sil.org/alkalami/
+
+This CTAN package was packaged by Bob Tennent
+rdt(at)cs.queensu.ca.