SIL Lateef fonts: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 06:40, 2 November 2009

Foreword

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An Arabic script unicode font

Description

Lateef is named after Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai, the famous Sindhi mystic and poet. It is intended to be an appropriate style for use in Sindhi and other languages of the South Asian region.

Characteristics

Homepage	Format & features	License	Review reference	Koji page	pkgdb page
SIL Arabic Script Unicode Fonts	TTF with OpenType tables	OFL	527406	sil-lateef-fonts	sil-lateef-fonts

Style					Faces					Scripts
Sans		Serif		Other	R	B	I	BI	Other	Latin	Greek	Cyrillic	Other
Variable	Monospace	Variable	Monospace	Other	R	B	I	BI	Other	Latin	Greek	Cyrillic	Other
		✘			✘								ar

Caveats

Packager
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Additional information

Another solid international font from SIL.

Reviewer and packager
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-''SIL Lateef Arabic font''
+''An Arabic script unicode font''
-{{admon/note | Packager | Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package '''summary'''.}}
 == Description ==
 Lateef is named after Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai, the famous Sindhi mystic and poet. It is intended to be an appropriate style for use in Sindhi and other languages of the South Asian region.
-It is an extended Arabic script font designed by SIL International for modern Unicode-based systems using OpenType for complex-script rendering. It supports virtually all of the Unicode 4.1 Arabic character repertoire (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use), and is currently available in Regular weight only.
-{{admon/note | Packager | Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package '''description'''.}}
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 | TTF with OpenType tables
 | OFL
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+| [[rhbug:527406|527406]]
-| ⑤
+| [[koji:sil-lateef-fonts|sil-lateef-fonts]]
-| ⑥
+| [[pkgdb:sil-lateef-fonts|sil-lateef-fonts]]
 |}
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-* Once a package has entered the review stage, add a '''Review reference''' ④ such as [[rhbug:181994|181994]]. You can reference this wiki page in your review request as additional information. Please do not forget to CC ''fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com'' on your bugzilla ticket.
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-{{:Fonts_SIG_signature}} [[Category:Font wishlist]] [[Category:International fonts]]
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-* [[:Category:In-progress fonts]] for a font being worked on, but not available in Fedora yet. Typically in packaging review stage.
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