[Bug 1015701] Review Request: amiri-fonts - Arabic font form amirifont.org

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015701



--- Comment #32 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Parag AN(पराग) from comment #31) 
> 3) your fontconfig files should look neat as
> a)amiri-fontconfig.conf
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "../fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
>         <alias>
>           <family>sans-serif</family>
>             <prefer>
>               <family>Amiri</family>
>             </prefer>
>         </alias>
>         <alias>
>           <family>Amiri</family>
>             <default>
>               <family>sans-serif</family>
>             </default>
>         </alias>
> </fontconfig>

Amiri is a serif, not a sans-serif font.

> b)amiri-quran-fontconfig.conf
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "../fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
>         <alias>
>           <family>sans-serif</family>
>             <prefer>
>               <family>Amiri Quran</family>
>             </prefer>
>         </alias>
>         <alias>
>           <family>Amiri Quran</family>
>             <default>
>               <family>sans-serif</family>
>             </default>
>         </alias>
> </fontconfig>

Amiri Quran is a special font for typesetting Quran (it has a very high line
hight, only support characters used in Quran, some typographic choices not
generally suitable for regular text), so I don’t think such an alias is a good
idea.

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