Amiri 0.110

• New Glyphs

  • U+0604 ARABIC SIGN SAMVAT.
  • Alternate glyph for U+1EE13 ARABIC MATHEMATICAL REH.
  • Localized Kashmiri digits.
  • Alternate Kaf when followed by medial Heh

• Fixes:

  • Fix rendering of Amiri Quran Colored on Windows.
  • Improve Hamza below positioning in Amiri Quran.
  • Make U+0608 ARABIC RAY look like نق not just ق.
  • Make U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT the same width as space.
  • Keep exclamation mark upright in slanted fonts.
  • Make the الله combination work in better in some faulty applications.
  • Allow فالله/بالله/تالله/والله to take the special form.
  • Improve U+0674 ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA by making it bigger and not
    zero-width, since it is a variant of Hamza and not a combining mark.
  • Improve the design of U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN to derive from the Urdu
    word نمرة.
  • Improve small Noon placement over Kashida.
  • Allow marks over small Yeh and Noon.
  • Greatly improve the handling of curvilinear Kashida.
  • Disable “لبمـ” and “ببحـ” combinations in Quran font.

• New features:

  • Add ss07 to disable curvilinear Kashida.
  • Small improvements to the documentation.

Amiri 0.109

Amiri 0.109 (2016-11-20)

• New glyphs:
  • A new stylistic set (ss06) to avoid automatically adding ◌ّٰ above لله.
  • A localised &.
  • U+1EEF0 ARABIC MATHEMATICAL OPERATOR MEEM WITH HAH WITH TATWEEL (𞻰).
  • U+1EEF1 ARABIC MATHEMATICAL OPERATOR HAH WITH DAL (𞻱).
  • Adding missing forms of U+06C2.
• Fixes:
  • Fix clipping of some vowel marks in Microsoft Office.
  • Add descriptive stylistic sets names to the font.
  • Many improvements to Amiri Quran Colored, including revamped color
    palette by Munzir Taha.
  • Improve and redo most of the Arabic math alphanumeric symbols.
  • aliftype/quran-data#1
  • aliftype/quran-data#4
  • #90
  • #106

Amiri 0.108

Amiri 0.108 (2015-09-21)

• New glyphs:
  • New design of ه in ـهي 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.