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This question is a complement to this other: Overview of Arabic fonts available for LaTeX/XeTeX?

I'm working on Arabic justification for babel+luatex (see this Tweet) and I'm looking for fonts with the jalt OpenType table (justification alternatives). I've found Arabic Typesetting and Sakkal Majalla (it looks like Waseem has it, but it's a Mac font and right now I don't have a Mac at hand).

Do you know any more fonts?

Javier Bezos
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  • If you are looking for a justified Arabic font, Arabic Latin Modern Fixed is an important one for LuaTeX/XeTeX. – Davislor May 01 '21 at 07:33
  • @Davislor Nice font, indeed, but sadly it doesn't seem to have the jalt feature. Even in the manual justification is done with tatweels and not with elongated glyphs. – Javier Bezos May 01 '21 at 10:10
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    Aref Ruqaa, such as it is, is doing something in the jalt space. The only one out of two dozen I checked. Seems a rare feature. – Cicada May 01 '21 at 13:35
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    Among commercial fonts, there’s Sultan Fonts’ SF Article. – Thérèse May 01 '21 at 13:42
  • @Cicada Very helpful. Except for a few bad kerns, what I've done so far seems to work. – Javier Bezos May 01 '21 at 15:19
  • @Thérèse From the specimen I'd say it even supports curvilinear kashida. But I can't afford it. A pity. – Javier Bezos May 01 '21 at 15:22
  • The current documentation of fontspec says that jalt is to date unsupported. Is there some other way to use it? – Robert Alessi May 17 '21 at 11:29
  • @RobertAlessi jalt is not exactly a font property, but a combination of font and layout engine. With some tricks, I've managed to support it, at least in part, in babel, as you can see in the linked Tweet. See also https://github.com/latex3/babel/blob/master/news-guides/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.58.md#arabic-justification-experimental and https://github.com/latex3/babel/blob/master/news-guides/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.59.md . – Javier Bezos May 17 '21 at 14:49
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    JH Haroun claims “smart Kashidas.” – Thérèse Aug 14 '21 at 15:51
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    A different approach is to use a variable font axis for kashida, as in Estedad, which is open-source. – Thérèse Sep 14 '21 at 01:59
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    There’s both a project and a font at https://digitalkhatt.org/about – Thérèse Oct 16 '21 at 18:23
  • @Thérèse Wonderful page. I intend to resume the work on the Arabic justification very soon. – Javier Bezos Oct 17 '21 at 05:17

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