Re: Arabic issues in GNU Freefont

["Steve White" <stevan dot white at googlemail dot com>]

Adnène (and ArabEyes folks),

I have made a new release of GNU FreeFont. It contains changes to the
Arabic script, that I think make it usable for display of text.

Download it at
    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/
If you see any other problems, submit a report at
    https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
You might also consider subscribing to the freefont-announce mailing list
    https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=freefont

I moved the whole script down, so its baseline was even with the Latin
baseline.  This allowed the tallest letters to be shown.  However, in
Windows, I see still that some of the lowest letters are cut off.
Comparing with other fonts, I see that these low letters are not drawn
with such low descenders as in FreeFont.  I'm not sure what to do
about this.

I also added tables for the alif-lam ligatures and the positional
replacements required by Arabic.

Let me know what you think!