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Arabic-Latin Modern Fixed is an extension of TeX-Gyre Latin
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Modern Mono 10 Regular. Every glyph and opentype feature of the
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Latin Modern Mono has been retained, with minor improvements.
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On the other hand, we have changed the vertical metrics of the
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font. Although the Arabic script is designed to use the same x-
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size as Latin Modern Mono, the former script needs greater
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ascender and descender space. Every Arabic glyph in each
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Unicode-code block is supported (up to Unicode 7.0): Arabic,
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Arabic Supplement, Arabic Extended, Arabic Presentation-Forms
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A, and Arabic Presentation-Forms B. There are two versions of
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the font: otf and ttf. The opentype version is for print
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applications (and usually the default for TeX). The TrueType
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version is for on-screen applications such as text editors.
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Hinting in the ttf version is much better for on-screen, at
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least on Microsoft Windows. The most unique feature of Arabic-
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Latin Modern is in its treatment of vowels and diacritics. Each
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vowel and diacritic (ALM Fixed contains a total of 68 such
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glyphs) can now be edited horizontally within any text editor
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or processor. The author believes this is the very first
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opentype Arabic font ever to have this capability. Editing
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complex Arabic texts will now be much easier to input and to
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proofread.
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