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This paper describes a font family designed to meet the requirements of typesetting mathematical documents in an Arabic presentation. Thus, not only is the text written in an Arabic alphabet-based script, but specific symbols are used and mathematical expressions also spread out from right to left. Actually, this font family consists of two components: an Arabic mathematical font and a dynamic font. The construction of this font family is a first step of a project aiming at providing a complete and homogeneous Arabic font family, in the OpenType format, respecting Arabic calligraphy rules.
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Banouni, M., Mohamed, E., Lazrek, A. (2004). Dynamic Arabic Mathematical Fonts. In: Syropoulos, A., Berry, K., Haralambous, Y., Hughes, B., Peter, S., Plaice, J. (eds) TeX, XML, and Digital Typography. TUG 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27773-6_11
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