{"id":1012,"date":"2024-10-21T16:33:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:33:35","slug":"release-4-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/release-4-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Release 4.300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to announce a new release of Harmattan, an Arabic script font designed for use by languages in West Africa.<\/p>\n<h3>Changes<\/h3>\n<p>This release includes the following changes for this version:<\/p>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added:\n<ul>\n<li>U+0897 ARABIC PEPET<\/li>\n<li>U+10EC2 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+10EC3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+10EC4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+10EFC ARABIC COMBINING ALEF OVERLAY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added support for Kashmiri language<\/li>\n<li>Added facility to override default language behavior through feature selection<\/li>\n<li>Added support for cv76 (dagger alef) on spacing characters and tatweel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Enhanced positioning of U+06E2 ARABIC SMALL HIGH MEEM ISOLATED FORM next to adjacent vowel marks<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted design of U+0883 ARABIC TATWEEL WITH OVERSTRUCK HAMZA<\/li>\n<li>Improved alef+mark positioning to reduce collisions<\/li>\n<li>Improved madda reordering to comply with UAX #53<\/li>\n<li>Documentation enhancements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Known issues<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Shaping for the newly added characters may not yet occur in applications.<\/li>\n<li>Medial and final high hamza characters may have collisions (these likely do not occur).<\/li>\n<li>Lam + high hamza alef ligature does not form as it likely does not occur.<\/li>\n<li>In InDesign: some behaviors, such as the <em>lam-alef<\/em> ligature, raised <em>kasra<\/em> with <em>shadda<\/em>, and subtending marks, will not function correctly unless <strong>Ligatures<\/strong> is turned on in the <strong>Characters<\/strong> panel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/download\">Download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to announce a new release of Harmattan, an Arabic script font designed for use by languages in West Africa. Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: New Added: U+0897 ARABIC PEPET U+10EC2 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW U+10EC3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}