mustafa0x / kitab-font

A classical Arabic Naskh font
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honorifics: replace some with scheherazade new's #22

Open mustafa0x opened 1 year ago

mustafa0x commented 1 year ago

some of them, eg عليه السلام, are more legible. see https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/features/

nailhuseyn commented 1 year ago

https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/release-4-000/

Changes

This release includes the following changes for this version: New

Added Medium and SemiBold weights
Added Arabic-style (rounded) versions of chevron quotes
Added Bold calligraphic honorifics (previous ones were the same weight as Regular)
Added:
    U+201B SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
    U+201F DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
    U+10EFD ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD SAKTA
    U+10EFE ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD QASR
    U+10EFF ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD MADDA
New features:
    cv49 – Heh Doachashmee

Improved

Changed Kurdish language to support a U+06BE Heh Doachashmee alternate rather than U+0647 Heh alternate
Redesigned
    U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH (see https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/erratafixed.html)
    Slight adjustments to:
    gaf-like characters (such as U+06AF ARABIC LETTER GAF)
    U+0601 ARABIC SIGN SANAH
    U+0605 ARABIC NUMBER MARK ABOVE
Small improvements to kerning

Removed

Removed support for Sindhi-style comma when Sindhi language is selected
Removed Graphite support

Known issues

Shaping for the newly added characters may not yet occur in applications
Medial and final high hamza characters may have collisions (these likely do not occur)
Lam + high hamza alef ligature does not form as it likely does not occur