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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/amiri/NEWS b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/amiri/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..50099527ede --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/amiri/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,448 @@ +Amiri 0.108 (2015-09-21) +------------------------ +* New glyphs: + - New design of ه in هي combination. + - Alternate numbers for use in fractions, accessible with the OpenType + features `numr` and `dnom`. + - The new Arabic Extended-A vowel marks, in the range U+08E4–08FE. + - Redesign the U+06C1 forms to make it distinctive from U+06BE. + - Add “جل جلاله” symbol, U+FDFB. + +* Fixes: + - No longer replace two successive *fatha*, *damma* or *kasra* with a + sequential *tanween* form, the characters U+08F0, U+08F1 and U+08F2 + should be used instead. + - Many kerning improvements. + - Workaround a bug in Core Text (Mac OS X text layout engine) that break + the لله ligature. + - All forms of U+06BA are now dotless, per Unicode standard. + - Initial and medial forms of U+063E, U+063F, U+077A and U+077B were + missing. + - The dots in initial and medial forms of U+06BD should be inverted. + +* New fonts: + - A coloured version of the Amiri Quran font that gives the vowels and + Quranic annotation marks distinctive colours. This font uses the new + `COLR`/`CPAL` font tables which are currently supported only by Firefox + (all platforms) and MS Internet Explorer/Edge (Windows 8.1 and above). + - The webfonts now include WOFF 2.0 files as well. + +Amiri 0.107 (2013-12-30) +------------------------ +* New glyphs: + - Arabic math letters from Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols block + (U+1EE00–U+1EEFF). + - Optional support for placing the kasra below the shadda, with `ss05` + feature. + - Missing proportional LTR digits in the slanted font. + +* Fixes: + - Reverted the lowering of marks above wide isolated glyphs, it made the marks + look weird relative to other ones. + - Fixed the position of marks above qaf of قح. + - Dropped the special combination in تمخ when it is follow vowelled as + it was too crowded. + - Fixed the position of sukun over shadda. + - Fixed the side bearings of ثر, ثن and sisters so that the dots do not clash + with preceding glyphs. + - Positive kerning between مرين and likes. + - Slight kerning between the period and closing quotes. + - Made sure the italic European digits are really tabular. + +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. + +Amiri 0.105 (2012-12-31) +------------------------ +* New Quran font: + + This release features a new separate Amiri Quran font for typesetting Quran. + + It is basically a subset of Amiri Regular font with some default settings and + features tailored for Quran typesetting requirements that are not suitable + for general text. For example: + - Covers only the subset of characters required for Quran. + - Bigger line height to accommodate waqf marks. + - Hamza on yeh or waw when followed by kasra is placed bellow its base. + - Supports overline mark (U+0305) that can be used to draw sajda lines in + situations where proper overline formating is not available. + - The Allah ligature is always active, no checking for surrounding letters or + vowel marks, also no automatic insertion of shadda above it. + - Some ligatures that are problematic for fully vowelled text are disabled. + +* Lots of metrics, mark positioning, kerning and glyph shape tuning. Check GIT + log for complete list. + +Amiri 0.104 (2012-07-19) +------------------------ +* New glyphs: + - New localised slash glyph, to align better with Arabic digits. + - New, less bulky Arabic @ sign. + - Proportional digits (`pnum` feature). + +* Fixes: + - Give some room to the low small waw. + - Fix seen tooth with `ss02`. + - Fix raa with inverted v above. + - Improve medial kaf of kaf-mem-alef + - Make subtending marks work with Firefox (and other HarfBuzz based + applications). + - Arabic number sign (U+0600) now accepts a 4th digits, and is made a bit + wider, to avoid collision with wide digits. + - Fix combining Qur’anic madda with inverted damma. + - Drop the Th ligature. + - Other miscellaneous fixes. + +* Kerning: + - Kern final lam-alef with kaf. + +Amiri 0.103 (2012-05-31) +------------------------ +* 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. + +Amiri 0.102 (2012-05-22) +------------------------ +* 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. + +* Many other subtle improvements here and there. + +Amiri 0.101 (2011-12-27) +------------------------ +* New styles: + - This release features a bold font that is, though not as polished as the + regular one, quite usable. + - Bold Slanted font. + +* New glyphs: + - Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam symbol (U+FDFD). + - Ornate parenthesis (U+FD3E, U+FD3F). + - Arabic pedagogical symbols (U+FBB2-U+FBC1). + - Most of Presentation Forms-A and B blocks. + +* Fixes: + - Fix misplaced Yaa dots on some Apple applications. + - Enable local period and guillemots for Urdu and Sindhi languages. + - Fix disabled mark and curs features with Urdu and Sindhi languages. + - Fix wrong Baa when followed by Seen then Heh, as in بسهل. + - Fix some misplaced dots. + - Fix Hamza placement above final Heh. + - Widen final Alef to be less acute and avoid touching adjacent glyphs. + - Fix clash of medial Lam mark and final Yaa dots, as in هلِي. + - Support European digits with subtending marks. + - Use larger digits with the year sign to be more usable. + - Prevent double high Baa when preceded and followed by Seen, as in سببس. + +Amiri 0.100 (2011-12-04), beta gamma delta +------------------------------------------ +* This release marks another important developmental milestone, with Arabic and + Arabic Supplement blocks in Unicode 6.0 being fully covered (which means + essentially any Arabic character in Unicode can now be presented with Amiri). + Also the font has now matured to great extent and is usable for most of + typesetting tasks. + +* New styles: + - Add a slanted style that slants to the left and no to right, to follow + Arabic writing direction. + +* New glyphs: + - Subtending marks (U+0600-0603). + - Arabic date separator (U+060D). + - Arabic poetic verse sign (U+060E). + - Honorific marks (U+0610-0614). + - Dochashmi Heh (U+06BE and U+06FF). + - Bari Yaa (U+06D2 and U+06D3). + - 4 sizes of Kashida. + +* Fixes: + - Fix issue with Kashida breaking word shaping in InDesign. + - Slant Urdu digit four to look more acceptable. + - Fix disappearance of media Khaa dot when preceded by Kaf, as in كخا. + - Decrease the hight of initial Lam when followed by Haa and Meem, as in + لحمد, to match other Lam glyphs. + - Finjani Ayn and closed Haa when followed by Kaf. + - Lower small Waw after final Heh. + - Widen small Waw and final Alef when a Madda mark is applied to them. + - Increase side bearings of many dotted glyphs no avoid clash with their + neighbours. + - More wider forms of glyphs to avoid mark clash when fully vowelled. + - New contextual shape for initial Ain followed by Raa, as in غر. + - New contextual shape for final Alef preceded by Kashida, as in عمـان. + - New contextual shape for final Yaa when followed by open Heh, as in نهى. + - New redrawn initial and medial Kaf that do not clash with their neighbours. + - New redrawn final Waw that is more faithful to the original design. + - Disable, by default, lowering Baa dots when preceded by Raa or Waw, moved + to stylistic set 01. + - Disable, by default, contextual form of medial Meem when followed by Alef, + moved to stylistic set 02. + - Digits are now tabular, removed tnum feature. + - Common punctuation and European digits are now from Crimson Text. + - Change the default interline spacing to fit better for regular text. + - Many more smaller fixes here and there. + +Amiri 0.016 (2011-09-22), Beginning of the End +---------------------------------------------- +* This release features full Quranic support, another major developmental + milestone, more work still needed in refining glyph interaction specially + mark positioning in fully vocalised text such as Quran. + +* New glyphs: + - All Quranic annotation marks in Unicode 6.0. + - All other Arabic vowel marks in Unicode 6.0. + - Radical (U+221A) including a RTL variant, and other Arabic radicals + (U+0606, U+0607). + - Arabic ray (U+0608). + - Afghani sign (U+060B). + - Arabic sign Misra (U+060F). + - New contextual shape for initial meem followed by medial heh, as in مها. + +* Kerning: + - Decreased the number of kerning pairs from 411240 to 55850 while retaining + the same functionality. + +* Fixes: + - General cleanup of punctuation marks, fixing spacing of brackets and making + curly brackets more bolder to fit wit the rest of the font. + - Made the space glyph 600 units wide. + - Fixed erroneous tatweel (kashida) insertion in full justification. + - Wider forms of some glyphs to avoid mark clash when fully vowelled. + - Underline position is now lower than most glyphs with descendants. + - Various mark positioning fixes. + - Separate the ring of Kashmiri yeh from the body of base glyph, following + Kashmiri orthographic traditions. + +Amiri 0.015 (2011-07-14), Phoenix +--------------------------------- +* This release represents a major developmental milestone, as the OpenType + layout have been rewritten to allow maximum compatibility with various + OpenType implementations. + +* Cleanup: + - More unification and tidy up. + - Various fixes for FontForge warnings. + - Various dot placement fixes. + - Various tashkil fine tuning. + - Fixes to Lellah form. + - Fine tune initial Baa/final Alef combination. + +* More kerning pairs. + +* Font name is now shown only in English in font menus. + +Amiri 0.014 (2011-06-05), Break a Leg +------------------------------------- +* Another minor release to fix two bugs: + - Lellah bug on Windows and MS Office. + - Wrong placement of dots under final Yaa. + +Amiri 0.013 (2011-04-27), Hurry up! +----------------------------------- +* A minor release to fix mark positioning on kerned glyphs in Windows. + +Amiri 0.012 (2011-04-26), A Long Night +-------------------------------------- + +* New glyphs: + - Add localised Urdu and Sindhi digits (`locl` feature). + - Add tabular numbers feature (`tnum`). + - European numbers and some punctuation marks from Linux Libertine. + - Add at sign with experimental Arabic variant (`locl` feature, too). + - Add triple dot punctuation mark (U+061E). + - Add middle dot (U+00B7). + - Reimplement الله igature properly and added فلله ligature; the code now + much more careful on when to activate this ligature. + + +* Cleanup: + - Massive cleanup removing tens of too similar glyphs, making the font more + unified and consistent. + - This cleanup results in more contextual variants that were missing before, + yet the font is smaller not larger. + - Scaled Tashkil marks down by 80%, they are now smaller leading too less + mark collision. + - The Arabic digits are more polished. + - Misc. mark fixes. + - Less use of exotic OpenType features to work with even more OpenType + implementations. + +* More kerning pairs. + +* Bug fixes: 3234138, 3110760, 3087332, 3073139, 3211187, 3211239 and 3078741 + +Amiri 0.011 (2011-03-31), Inflating the Tire +-------------------------------------------- + +* New glyphs: + - `"#'*,-/;[\]{|}¦` + - Single and double angle quotation marks: `‹›«»`, in addition to rounded + Arabic variant. + - Curly quotation marks: `‟„”“‛‚’‘` + - Asterism symbol: `⁂` + - Fraction slash: `⁄` + - Arabic percent signs: `٪؊؉` + - Arabic decimal and thousands separators: `٫٬` + - Arabic five pointed star: `٭` + - Typographic dashes: `‒ – — ―` + - Proper support for Arabic characters with traverse stroke: `ۅ ݛ ݪ` + - Arabic characters with digit marks: `ݳ ݴ ݵ ݶ ݷ ݸ ݹ ݼ ݽ` + +* Misc. fixes: + - Update font metadata. + - Scale all numbers by 120% since they were drawn smaller than what they + should, and raise them a bit. + - Misc. cleanup of punctuation and math glyphs. + - Proper mark support for standalone Hamza. + - Visually centralise marks bellow isolated Heh. + +Amiri 0.010 (2011-03-21), Referendum +------------------------------------ + +* New glyphs: + - Lam with three dots below (U+06B8). + +* Kerning: + - Lam of له with preceding Raa/Waw family. + - Kaf of كتب as well. + +* Glyph fixes: + - Fixed exclamation mark’s vertical position as compared to question mark. + - Removed stray Hamza from U+063B and U+063C initial and medial forms. + - Fixed the weight of isolated Dal, was much bolder than the rest of the font. + - Fixed Lam Meem connection in لما, there was a slight mismatch. + - Fixed the size of medial Ayn compared to the head of final one. + +* OpenType code: + - Removed DFLT script from `locl` feature which would cause it to be on + unconditionally. + - Got rid of mark sets in favour of the more widely supported mark classes. + +Amiri 0.009 (2011-02-06), Revolution +------------------------------------ + +* New glyphs: + - Initial support for vowel marks, still needs more adjustments and fine + tuning. + - Arabic and Persian digits. + - More punctuation marks. + - More coverage of extended Arabic characters. + - More glyph variants, especially for pairs ending with Haa. + +* Attempted to get around OOo bugs, it should render much better now. A proper + fix have been submitted to LibreOffice developers but didn’t make it into + 3.3.0 release. +* Packed sfdir into an sfd file in the release, should make it easier for + others to open the source in FontForge. +* Increased line spacing a bit to give more room for vowel marks. +* More coverage and kerning fixes. +* Tens of other small fixes here and there. + +* Bug fixes: + - 3085159 Kaf clashes with next letters + - 3085165 Hamza on Alef clashes wit next and previous letters + - 3085166 Raa and Zay clashes with next Yaa + - 3085172 Kaf clashes with next Lam-Meem combination + - 3085174 Lam-Alef is broken of preceded by Kaf-Meem + - 3085175 Succeeding Haa clash with each other + - 3101634 Missing kerning + - 3101674 Finjani Ayn + +Amiri 0.003 (2010-10-10) +----------------------- + +* More tuning of kerning, especially handling of dot clash between + kerned glyphs. +* Resolved many glyph clashes especially between ل and ك, between ك and + letters with above dots after it, and between marks of ب and ا. +* Persian should be now fully supported, other languages to follow. + +Amiri 0.002 (2010-09-25) +----------------------- + +* More kerning work: + + Kerning have been further refined, extended in coverage especially + between contextual variants, and mysterious dot movements on Windows + resulting from bad interaction between kerning and dot positioning + have been fixed. + +* Refined dot positioning: + + Some dot placements have been refined, though this area still in need + of more work. + +* Smaller file size: + + The uncompressed TTF file is now approximately 25% smaller than previous + release, saving a bit more bandwidth when used as web font. + +Amiri 0.001 (2010-9-19) +----------------------- + +First release. + |