FONTLOG 
Awami Nastaliq font
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This file provides detailed information on the Awami Nastaliq font software. 
This information should be distributed along with the Awami Nastaliq font 
and any derivative works.

Basic Font Information
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Awami Nastaliq is a Nastaliq-style Arabic script font supporting a wide variety of 
languages of Southwest Asia, including but not limited to Urdu. This font is aimed 
at minority language support. This makes it unique among Nastaliq fonts.

Awami means "of the people", "of the common population" or "public". 

The Awami Nastaliq font does not provide complete coverage of all the characters 
defined in Unicode for Arabic script. Because the font style is specifically 
intended for languages using the Nastaliq style of southwest Asia, the character 
set for this font is aimed at those languages.

This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex 
typographic issues. Font smarts have been implemented using Graphite only. We have 
no current plans to support OpenType.

One font from this typeface family is included in this release:

     * Awami Nastaliq Regular

For detailed documentation see the contents of the 'documentation' folder.

Awami Nastaliq is a trademark of SIL International.

ChangeLog
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(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)

2018-Apr-24 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Version 1.101
- Fixed bug in positioning of final reh

2018-Apr-03 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Version 1.100
- Added characters: U+0604, U+0609, U+060A, U+060B, U+061C, U+0649, U+0659,
  U+066E, U+066F, U+0671, U+068E, U+069E, U+06A1, U+06B7, U+06C9, U+06E0,
  U+06E1, U+06EA, U+06ED, U+0763, U+0772, U+0773, U+0774, U+0775, U+0776,
  U+0777, U+0778, U+0779,	U+077A, U+077B, U+077C, U+077D, U+FDFC
- Adjusted shapes of sad, heh-doachashmee, some jeem forms, initial ains,
  and alternate-height kafs and gafs
- Improved shape of shadda
- Fixed right side-bearing problems with kafs, gafs, seens, and bariyeh
- Made bariyeh right-joining only
- Made many small glyph shape improvements
- Improved collision handling for special cases 
- Added an omitted feature to TypeTuner capability
- Redesigned salaam ulena ligature
- Improved punctuation kerning
- Include auto-hinting for Latin characters
- Fixed bug in noon-ring implementation
- Fixed positioning problems in end of ayah

2017-Jul-17 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Version 1.000
- Adjusted spacing issues between some characters
- Adjusted anchors on many glyphs
- Adjusted digit kerning
- Adjusted design of Kafs/Gafs/Lams/Meems
- Fixed font compression problems on OSX
- Changed design of U+061B
- Improved design of initial and medial U+067C (teh ring)
- Removed U+FEFB (lam/alef ligature)
- Tweaked positioning of some character combinations

2017-Apr-11 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Beta3
- Changed angle of vertical strokes on alef, lam, kaf, gaf, and tah forms
- Increased the line height by 20%
- Changed shapes of a number of letter forms: tah, bariyeh, feh (head shape), 
  dal, reh, some meems, some heh-goals, isolate kaf/gaf, some initial jeems, 
  pesh, dopesh, name marker
- Added Arabic style punctuation; cleaned up behavior of Arabic vs. Latin style 
  punctuation
- Added visible versions of invisible characters such as directional markers, 
  directional embedding, no-break spaces, etc.
- Added features: Full stop alternate (dash vs. dot) and Punctuation 
  (default, Arabic, or Latin)
- Added 06CE - yeh with small V; 06D5 - Ae
- Adjust size of spaces to match rescaling that happened in beta-2 version
- Fixed bugs in hamza feature
- Cleaned up positions of diacritics

2016-Dec-7 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Beta2
- Increased font size by 15%
- Redesigned seen forms
- Redesigned nuqtas, made a them little smaller and closer together
- Implemented feature to allow shorter kafs/gafs and some final forms 
  (noon, seen, chotiyeh, bariyeh, qaf, meem, lam) when the sequences 
  get very high
- Added feature to allow alternate position of V over lam
- Added Arabic style quote marks at a higher position than Latin
- Scaled subtending marks more appropriately
- Hand-tweaked some combinations to make more readable
- Added U+06B0 GAF WITH RING
- Added "salaam ulena" ligature
- Redesigned initial beh before meem
- Made nuqta positions on seens and sads more consistent
- Reworked ain connections
- Fixed shape of Arabic 4 and 5
- Adjusted various letter shapes

2016-Aug-1 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Beta1
- Beta1 release based on Alpha2 feedback
- Additional characters and features added

2016-May-16 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Alpha2
- Alpha2 release based on Alpha1 feedback
- Additional characters and features added

2015-Dec-04 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Alpha1
- Preliminary design font for initial feedback

2014-Sep-10 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Preliminary work
- Preliminary design of isolate characters

Acknowledgements
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(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications
be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description
(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)

N: Sharon Correll
E: fonts@sil.org
W: http://scripts.sil.org/
D: Script engineering, font design, and build support

N: Peter Martin
E: fonts@sil.org
W: http://scripts.sil.org/
D: Lead designer

The Awami Nastaliq project is maintained by SIL International.

For more information please visit the Awami Nastaliq font page on 
SIL International's website:
http://software.sil.org/awami/

