{"id":903,"date":"2022-06-24T16:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/?p=903"},"modified":"2024-01-26T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T16:14:14","slug":"release-2-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/release-2-000\/","title":{"rendered":"Release 2.000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to release version 2.000 of the Lateef font family. The font package is available for download from the <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/download\/\">Download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seven weights for this typeface family are included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lateef ExtraLight<\/li>\n<li>Lateef Light<\/li>\n<li>Lateef Regular<\/li>\n<li>Lateef Medium<\/li>\n<li>Lateef SemiBold<\/li>\n<li>Lateef Bold<\/li>\n<li>Lateef ExtraBold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full range of weights is accessed in different ways depending on the application. See the <a href=\"faq\">FAQ<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<h2>Changes<\/h2>\n<h3>2022-06-24 (SIL WSTech team) Lateef version 2.000<\/h3>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added 6 weights &#8212; ExtraLight, Light, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and ExtraBold<\/li>\n<li>Added OpenType support back in to the font<\/li>\n<li>Added &#8220;Disable digit kerning (see FAQ)&#8221; TypeTuner-only feature to support the bug in Word<\/li>\n<li>New features:\n<ul>\n<li>tnum &#8211; access tabular versions of Arabic digits<\/li>\n<li>pnum &#8211; access proportional versions of Latin digits<\/li>\n<li>cv51 &#8211; Kyrgyz OE (loop\/bar)<\/li>\n<li>cv54 &#8211; Yeh hamza (Standard\/Right hamza)<\/li>\n<li>cv85 &#8211; Decimal separator (Small reh\/Slash)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added UI name strings for OpenType features<\/li>\n<li>Added Kyrgyz language support<\/li>\n<li>Added Rohingya language support<\/li>\n<li>Added proportional Arabic digits (now the default)<\/li>\n<li>Added kerning for proportional Arabic digits<\/li>\n<li>Added Arabic-style (rounded) versions of chevron quotes<\/li>\n<li>Added:\n<ul>\n<li>U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN<\/li>\n<li>U+0601 ARABIC SIGN SANAH<\/li>\n<li>U+0602 ARABIC FOOTNOTE MARKER<\/li>\n<li>U+0603 ARABIC SIGN SAFHA<\/li>\n<li>U+0604 ARABIC SIGN SAMVAT<\/li>\n<li>U+0605 ARABIC NUMBER MARK ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0609 ARABIC-INDIC PER MILLE SIGN<\/li>\n<li>U+060A ARABIC-INDIC PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN<\/li>\n<li>U+060B AFGHANI SIGN<\/li>\n<li>U+060D ARABIC DATE SEPARATOR<\/li>\n<li>U+060E ARABIC POETIC VERSE SIGN<\/li>\n<li>U+060F ARABIC SIGN MISRA<\/li>\n<li>U+0610 ARABIC SIGN SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASSALLAM<\/li>\n<li>U+0611 ARABIC SIGN ALAYHE ASSALLAM<\/li>\n<li>U+0612 ARABIC SIGN RAHMATULLAH ALAYHE<\/li>\n<li>U+0613 ARABIC SIGN RADI ALLAHOU ANHU<\/li>\n<li>U+0615 ARABIC SMALL HIGH TAH<\/li>\n<li>U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH<\/li>\n<li>U+0617 ARABIC SMALL HIGH ZAIN<\/li>\n<li>U+0618 ARABIC SMALL FATHA<\/li>\n<li>U+0619 ARABIC SMALL DAMMA<\/li>\n<li>U+061A ARABIC SMALL KASRA<\/li>\n<li>U+0620 ARABIC LETTER KASHMIRI YEH<\/li>\n<li>U+063B ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+063C ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH THREE DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+063E ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+063F ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+065F ARABIC WAVY HAMZA BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+0773 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0774 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0775 ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0776 ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0777 ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+0778 ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0779 ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+077A ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+077B ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+077C ARABIC LETTER HAH WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+077D ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+077E ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH INVERTED V<\/li>\n<li>U+077F ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08A0 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH SMALL V BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08A1 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08A2 ARABIC LETTER JEEM WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08A3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08A4 ARABIC LETTER FEH WITH DOT BELOW AND THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08A5 ARABIC LETTER QAF WITH DOT BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08A6 ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH DOUBLE BAR<\/li>\n<li>U+08A7 ARABIC LETTER MEEM WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08A8 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND HAMZA ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08A9 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND DOT ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08AA ARABIC LETTER REH WITH LOOP<\/li>\n<li>U+08AB ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT WITHIN<\/li>\n<li>U+08AC ARABIC LETTER ROHINGYA YEH<\/li>\n<li>U+08AD ARABIC LETTER LOW ALEF<\/li>\n<li>U+08AE ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH THREE DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08AF ARABIC LETTER SAD WITH THREE DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08B0 ARABIC LETTER GAF WITH INVERTED STROKE<\/li>\n<li>U+08B1 ARABIC LETTER STRAIGHT WAW<\/li>\n<li>U+08B2 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN WITH INVERTED V ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08B3 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08B4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08B6 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH SMALL MEEM ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08B7 ARABIC LETTER PEH WITH SMALL MEEM ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08B8 ARABIC LETTER TEH WITH SMALL TEH ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08B9 ARABIC LETTER REH WITH SMALL NOON ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08BA ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND SMALL NOON ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH<\/li>\n<li>U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF<\/li>\n<li>U+08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON<\/li>\n<li>U+08BE ARABIC LETTER PEH WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<li>U+08BF ARABIC LETTER TEH WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<li>U+08C0 ARABIC LETTER TTEH WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<li>U+08C1 ARABIC LETTER TCHEH WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<li>U+08C2 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<li>U+08C3 ARABIC LETTER GHAIN WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08C4 ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08C5 ARABIC LETTER JEEM WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08C6 ARABIC LETTER JEEM WITH THREE DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08C7 ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08E3 ARABIC TURNED DAMMA BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08E4 ARABIC CURLY FATHA<\/li>\n<li>U+08E5 ARABIC CURLY DAMMA<\/li>\n<li>U+08E6 ARABIC CURLY KASRA<\/li>\n<li>U+08E7 ARABIC CURLY FATHATAN<\/li>\n<li>U+08E8 ARABIC CURLY DAMMATAN<\/li>\n<li>U+08E9 ARABIC CURLY KASRATAN<\/li>\n<li>U+08EA ARABIC TONE ONE DOT ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08EB ARABIC TONE TWO DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08EC ARABIC TONE LOOP ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08ED ARABIC TONE ONE DOT BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08EE ARABIC TONE TWO DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08EF ARABIC TONE LOOP BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08F0 ARABIC OPEN FATHATAN<\/li>\n<li>U+08F1 ARABIC OPEN DAMMATAN<\/li>\n<li>U+08F2 ARABIC OPEN KASRATAN<\/li>\n<li>U+08F3 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WAW<\/li>\n<li>U+08F4 ARABIC FATHA WITH RING<\/li>\n<li>U+08F5 ARABIC FATHA WITH DOT ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08F6 ARABIC KASRA WITH DOT BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08F7 ARABIC LEFT ARROWHEAD ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08F8 ARABIC RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08F9 ARABIC LEFT ARROWHEAD BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08FA ARABIC RIGHT ARROWHEAD BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+08FB ARABIC DOUBLE RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08FC ARABIC DOUBLE RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE WITH DOT<\/li>\n<li>U+08FD ARABIC RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE WITH DOT<\/li>\n<li>U+08FE ARABIC DAMMA WITH DOT<\/li>\n<li>U+08FF ARABIC MARK SIDEWAYS NOON GHUNNA<\/li>\n<li>U+201B SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK<\/li>\n<li>U+201F DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK<\/li>\n<li>U+204F REVERSED SEMICOLON<\/li>\n<li>U+2E41 REVERSED COMMA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Implemented new rules for <a href=\"allah\">Rendering the Allah ligature<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Implemented support for <a href=\"https:\/\/unicode.org\/reports\/tr53\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNICODE ARABIC MARK RENDERING (UTR #53)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Changed design of all Latin glyphs to use Crimson Pro<\/li>\n<li>Updated Latin script repertoire to support <a href=\"https:\/\/scriptsource.org\/entry\/gg5wm9hhd3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recommended characters for Non-Roman fonts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Redesign of some Arabic digits<\/li>\n<li>Redesign of hook on heh-goal<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned head of feh, qaf, waw<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned high hamza characters (U+0674..U+0678)<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned nuktas and variants to be more calligraphic and less geometric<\/li>\n<li>Slight adjustments to nukta spacing<\/li>\n<li>Harmonized design of many characters so that all characters in that family (eg seen, dal, feh, keheh, etc) would be consistent<\/li>\n<li>Harmonized design of all terminals<\/li>\n<li>Harmonized vertical stems<\/li>\n<li>Harmonized design of small v and inverted small v characters\n<ul>\n<li>U+063D ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH INVERTED V<\/li>\n<li>U+065A ARABIC VOWEL SIGN SMALL V ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+065B ARABIC VOWEL SIGN INVERTED SMALL V ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0692 ARABIC LETTER REH WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<li>U+06B5 ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<li>U+06C9 ARABIC LETTER KIRGHIZ YU<\/li>\n<li>U+06CE ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<li>U+06EE ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH INVERTED V<\/li>\n<li>U+06EF ARABIC LETTER REH WITH INVERTED V<\/li>\n<li>U+06FF ARABIC LETTER HEH WITH INVERTED V<\/li>\n<li>U+0756 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<li>U+0769 ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Harmonized design of punctuation used in Arabic script (question mark, exclamation mark, quotation marks, commas, period)<\/li>\n<li>Made space and nobreak space have the same width<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted width of various whitespace characters to conform to best practice<\/li>\n<li>Revised side-bearings for many glyphs<\/li>\n<li>Revised width of kashida<\/li>\n<li>Changed scaling for some Quranic marks (combining) and adjusted weights<\/li>\n<li>Improved mark positioning<\/li>\n<li>Redesign\n<ul>\n<li>U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH<\/li>\n<li>U+0677 ARABIC LETTER U WITH HAMZA ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+06AC ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+06AD ARABIC LETTER NG<\/li>\n<li>U+06C5 ARABIC LETTER KIRGHIZ OE<\/li>\n<li>U+06C7 ARABIC LETTER U<\/li>\n<li>U+FDF2 ARABIC LIGATURE ALLAH ISOLATED FORM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted position of isolate lam characters<\/li>\n<li>Small changes to some glyphs including maddah, imala e, ain, waw <\/li>\n<li>Increase vertical separation between maddah and fatha in context of alef-maddah and initial lam+fatha<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted default linespacing to match that of Lateef 1.001 (which is tighter than LateefGR)<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted kerning to be similar to that of LateefGR<\/li>\n<li>Changed Latin digits to tabular; use new &#8220;pnum&#8221; feature to access proportional digits<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug using kashida-justification in Word (where the lam-alef ligature would break)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed End-of-Ayah rendering in OpenType<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Removed<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Removed Graphite from the font<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for Sindhi-style comma when Sindhi language is selected<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for Sindhi-style heh when Sindhi language is selected<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for Urdu-style heh when Urdu language is selected<\/li>\n<li>Removed features:\n<ul>\n<li>Arabic U<\/li>\n<li>Show invisible characters<\/li>\n<li>Jeh hack<\/li>\n<li>Dotless head of Khah hack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Known issues<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Characters added since LateefGR are not yet kerned so spacing after reh- and waw-like characters may be incorrect. Please let us know of specific combinations that should be improved.<\/li>\n<li>In Word: kerning of Arabic proportional digits is incorrect. This is a bug in Word.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to release version 2.000 of the Lateef font family. The font package is available for download from the Download page. Seven weights for this typeface family are included: Lateef ExtraLight Lateef Light Lateef Regular Lateef Medium Lateef SemiBold Lateef Bold Lateef ExtraBold The full range of weights is accessed in different ways [&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-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}