Amiri font v0.016
Yet another developmental release of Amiri font, this time featuring a, more or less, complete Quranic support, which fixes the last major issue with the font, and I think it is only a couple of more alpha releases before it is ready to enter beta stage.
Here is the full release notes:
Amiri 0.016 (2011-09-22), Beginning of the End
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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 in full vowelisation.
- 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.