[Pkg-fonts-bugs] ITP: ttf-sil-scheherazade - smart Unicode font for Arabic

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : ttf-sil-scheherazade
  Version         : 1.001
  Upstream Author : Bob Hallissy, Jonathan Kew
* URL             : http://scripts.sil.org/ArabicFonts
* License         : Open Font License
  Description     : smart Unicode font for Arabic


Description:

Scheherazade, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights
tale, is designed in a similar style to traditional typefaces such as
Monotype Naskh, extended to cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire.

The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font
family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for
almost any Arabic-based writing system. This font makes use of
state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues.

This font provides a simplified rendering of Arabic script, using basic
connecting glyphs but not including a wide variety of additional
ligatures or contextual alternates (only the required lam-alef
ligatures). This simplified style is often preferred for clarity,
especially in non-Arabic languages, but may be considered unattractive
in more traditional and literate communities.

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

     * Scheherazade Regular

This release supports virtually all of the Unicode 5.0 Arabic character
repertoire (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are
not recommended for normal use). Font smarts are implemented using
OpenType technology.