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Bug#739504: ITP: fonts-sahl-naskh -- a fork of Droid Arabic Naskh font



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mohamed Amine <med@mailoo.org>

* Package name    : fonts-sahl-naskh
  Version         : 20140125+git
  Upstream Author : Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
* URL             : https://github.com/khaledhosny/sahl-naskh
* License         : Apache 2.0
  Description     : a fork of Droid Arabic Naskh font

Sahl (Arabic for even, easy, convenient) is a fork of Droid Arabic Naskh font,
 fixing some of the issues in the original font.
 .
 Changes:
 .
   - Quranic annotation marks:
         - Made U+06E4 bigger, it was tiny and almost invisible!
         - Changed U+06E0 to be a small 0, not a black rectangle!
         - Changed U+06DF to be a small sukun, not black circle!
         - Changed U+06E1 to not be a small initial haa!
   - Increased the distance between vowel marks and base letter, 
     they were too close to be readable.
   - Removed the Riyal ligature, this symbol should be used directly
     if needed, not automatically replace the Arabic word riyal.
   - Added GDEF ligature caret, just in case any application begins
     to support them.
   - Merged the Droid Serif in the font, so that it covers Latin and
     punctuation marks.
   - Raised the isolated Noon to the baseline, as it looks out of place
     next to Waw, Raa or even Alef (the glyphs it is likely to come next to).
   - Fixed the position of Hamza below Lam-Alef; it was placed under the Lam!

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