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.

Five fonts from this typeface family are included in this release:

* Awami Nastaliq Regular
* Awami Nastaliq Medium
* Awami Nastaliq SemiBold
* Awami Nastaliq Bold
* Awami Nastaliq ExtraBold

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

Awami Nastaliq is a trademark of SIL Global.

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

### 2025-Oct-17 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.400

#### Improved

- Fixed issues with kerning and collisions.

#### New

- Added support for Malay hamza forms.
- Added 5 characters:
  - U+0682 ARABIC LETTER HAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICAL ABOVE
  - U+06A8 ARABIC LETTER QAF WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+0754 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND DOT ABOVE
  - U+FD4F ARABIC LIGATURE RAHIMAHUM ALLAAH
  - U+FDFF ARABIC LIGATURE AZZA WA JALL

### 2024-Oct-09 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.300

#### Improved
- Fixed issue with wasla collisions

#### New
- Added support for Kashmiri language
- Added support for Gojri language
- Added 15 characters:
  - U+08F7 ARABIC LEFT ARROWHEAD ABOVE (for Burushaski)
  - U+FBC6 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIM (this character is not officially in Unicode,
    it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)
  - U+FBC7 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIMAA (this character is not officially in Unicode,
    it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)
  - U+FD40 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHIMAHU ALLAAH
  - U+FD41 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANH
  - U+FD42 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHAA
  - U+FD43 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUM
  - U+FD44 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUMAA
  - U+FD45 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUNNA
  - U+FD48 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHIM AS-SALAAM
  - U+FD49 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHIMAA AS-SALAAM
  - U+FD4D ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHAA AS-SALAAM
  - U+FD90 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYH (this character is not officially in Unicode,
    it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)
  - U+FD91 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHAA (this character is not officially in Unicode,
    it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)
  - U+FDFE ARABIC LIGATURE SUBHAANAHU WA TAAALAA

### 2023-Oct-23 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.200

#### Improved
- Fixed bug in dot removal for YEH followed by COMBINING Hamza (U+064A U+0654)
- Fixed some minor kerning/collision/spacing bugs
- Changed shape of mark on 06C7 (Arabic U) to look like a comma instead of a pesh
- Created bold forms of the honorifics
- Changed PUA codepoint U+E003 to U+FD47 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHI AS-SALAAM
- Corrected weight class of Medium, SemiBold, and ExtraBold fonts

#### New
- Added six characters:
  - U+06A0 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+06AD ARABIC LETTER NG
  - U+06BD ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+0762 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH DOT ABOVE
  - U+FDCF ARABIC LIGATURE SALAAMUHU ALAYNAA
  - U+10ED0 ARABIC BIBLICAL END OF VERSE (this character is not officially in Unicode, it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)

### 2023-Jan-30 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.100

#### Improved
- Fixed a bug that manifested as disappearing glyphs
- Fixed some minor kerning/collision/spacing bugs

### 2022-Sep-20 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.000

#### New

- Added 4 weights -- Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and ExtraBold
- Added three characters:
	- U+08C8 ARABIC LETTER GRAF
	- U+069B ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
	- U+069C ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW AND THREE DOTS ABOVE

#### Improved
- Modified rules for forming the Allah ligature
- Fixed a bug affecting the right margin
- Fixed a problem with the behavior of the yeh with hamza
- Added a short version of the final sad
- Various improvements to beh forms
- Collision fixes
- Changed the default value of the short forms feature to use all short forms
- Added a special form of khah+zabar+meem+jeem+heh-doachashmee to avoid excessive height
- Flattened a couple of special ligatures
- Changed dopesh to use 69 form consistently

#### Removed
- Removed "Small nuqtas" feature

### 2021-Apr-29 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 2.200
- Improved spacing and kerning involving punctuation
- Corrected nuqtas in dul character
- Fixed collision bug that manifested itself in Paratext
- Fixed other obscure bugs

### 2021-Jan-18 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 2.100
- Added four honorific ligatures
	- U+FDFA ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHEWASALLAM
	- U+FDFB ARABIC LIGATURE JALLAJALALOUHOU
	- U+FDFD ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM
	- U+E003 ALAYHI AS-SALAAM
- Added U+075A DAL WITH INVERTED SMALL V BELOW
- Adjusted shapes of lam + alef combination, certain reh forms, medial heh goal + reh
- Adjusted position of honorific diacritics
- Adjusted position of superscript-alef on lam
- Added special ligature forms for three words
- Added short forms of jeem+bariyeh, beh+qaf/waw, final jeem, final ain
- Added wider form of jeem+kaf combination where needed
- Improved alignment of kafs, alef, and bariyeh with the right margin
- Increased spacing when sequences overlap
- Improved kerning of punctuation
- Improved kerning for rehs and other final forms
- Improved connections with medial/final fehs

### 2019-Jun-19 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 2.000
- Ten new characters - U+06C8, U+06CA, U+06CB, U+06CF, U+077E, U+077F, U+0695, U+06A4, U+08C7, U+221A
- Adjust behavior of nuqtas over sequences of beh/teh/theh/peh/etc.
- Changed shape of beh+seen and beh+sad before sad, tah, ain, feh, qaf, and final noon.
- Improved glyph-shape approximations for automatic collision fixing
- Adjusted diagonal cluster fitting involving short sequences
- Adjusted shape of meem heads
- Adjusted behavior of final-reh + zer
- Added and tweaked anchors
- Added smaller flat nukta for certain cases
- Adjusted shape of pre-jeem medial lam, keheh and gaf
- Adjusted position of salaam ulena ligature
- Adjusted position of Arabic zero characters
- Reduced size of U+060E
- Fixed bugs in bariyeh attachments
- Removed "Show invisible characters" feature
- Fixed bug in "Hamza" feature (Arabic style setting)
- Adjusted design of U+06BA (noon ghunna) to match Unicode recommendations
- Tweaked glyph shapes and sizes

### 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

Information for Contributors
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We welcome contributions to this font project, such as new glyphs, enhanced
smart font code, or bug fixes. The best way to begin the process is to file
an issue in the Github project (https://github.com/silnrsi/font-awami)
or respond to an existing issue and express your interest. Then we can begin
to correspond with you regarding what all might be required and discuss how
to best submit your contributions.

To enable us to accept contributions in a way that honors your contribution
and respects your copyright while preserving long-term flexibility for open
source licensing, you would also need to agree to the SIL International
Contributor License Agreement for Font Software (v1.0) prior to sending us
your contribution. To read more about this requirement and find out how to
submit the required form, please visit the CLA information page
(https://software.sil.org/fontcla).

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: https://software.sil.org/wstech/
D: Script engineering, font design, and build support

N: Peter Martin
E: fonts@sil.org
W: https://software.sil.org/wstech/
D: Lead designer

The Awami Nastaliq project is maintained by SIL Global.

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