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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/amiri/documentation/NEWS.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/amiri/documentation/NEWS.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e31677a6414..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/amiri/documentation/NEWS.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,417 +0,0 @@ -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 feature 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 positionin 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. - |