Package: wnpp Version N/A; reported 2020-11-04 Severity: wishlist Greetings, My team at SIL-WSTech is about to released a font not in Debian, Scheherazade New, that I would like to package for Debian. Package name : fonts-sil scheherazadenew Version : 3.000 Upstream Author : SIL WSTech <fonts@sil.org> URL : https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/ License : OFL-1.1 Section : fonts Description : Arabic script font designed in the traditional Naskh style Scheherazade New, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale, is designed in a similar style to traditional typefaces such as Monotype Naskh, extended to cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire. The goal for this product is to provide a single Unicode-based font family that contains a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Arabic-based writing system. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues. This font provides a simplified rendering of Arabic script, using basic connecting glyphs but not including a wide variety of additional ligatures or contextual alternates (only the required lam-alef ligatures). This simplified style is often preferred for clarity, especially in non-Arabic languages, but may be considered unattractive in more traditional and literate communities. Two fonts from this typeface family are included in this release: * Scheherazade New Regular * Scheherazade New Bold This release supports virtually all of the Unicode 13.0 Arabic character repertoire (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use). Font smarts are implemented using OpenType and Graphite technologies. It builds those binary packages: fonts-sil-scheherazadenew - Arabic script font designed in the traditional Naskh style To access further information about this font, please visit the following URL: https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/ Fabian Greffrath or Daniel Glassey can sponsor this package. Debian already has the Scheherazade font in the package fonts-sil-scheherazade. While the new font is an update from the old font, the sizing of the characters has changed, which would change the layout of existing documents. Therefore, a new package is proposed. Regards, Bobby -- Bobby de Vos /bobby_devos@sil.org/
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