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title: Lateef - Documentation
fontversion: 2.000
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Thank you for your interest in the Lateef font. Lateef includes near-complete support for Unicode 13.0 Arabic ranges (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use).

This documentation is a set of HTML pages that can be viewed in any modern web browser. PDF versions of these pages are also provided. This content, plus download links and a contact form, are available from the [Lateef site](https://software.sil.org/lateef/).

- [About](about.md) &mdash; Information about this project and SIL International
- [Resources](resources.md) &mdash; Help with installation and use
- [FAQ](faq.md) &mdash; Common questions and answers
- [Design](design.md) &mdash; History and background of the design
- [Character set support](charset.md) &mdash; Details of Unicode characters that are supported
- [Type Sample](sample.md) &mdash; Type sample demonstrating all the characters in this font
- [Font features](features.md) &mdash; Using smart font features
- [Rendering the Allah ligature](allah.md) &mdash; Special rules for rendering the Allah ligature
- [Support](support.md) &mdash; How to get additional support
- [Developer information](developer.md) &mdash; How to modify and build the fonts
- [Versions](versions.md) &mdash; Sources for alternate versions
- [Version history](history.md) &mdash; Complete version history
- [Announcement](announcement.md) &mdash; Source for News announcement

Additional information is also provided in other project files: [README.txt](../README.txt), [OFL.txt](../OFL.txt), [OFL-FAQ.txt](../OFL-FAQ.txt), and [FONTLOG.txt](../FONTLOG.txt).

