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-Amiri 0.107 (2013-12-30)
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-* 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)
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-
-* 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.
-