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ORIGINAL README:
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Valid Ligatures of Urdu.
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In 1980 Mr. Ahmad Mirza Jamil has invented a ligature based Nastaleeq writing
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system. He has written about 18,000 valid ligatures of Urdu and developed a
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Noori Nastaliq font. Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP) is
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releasing a soft copy of these ligatures in Unicode format. CRULP has
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extensively used these ligatures for testing the fonts developed at the center
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and realised that it will be a valuable resource for other font developers.
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These ligatures are grouped in 2 to 8 characters and are sorted in the end
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character order.
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These ligatures have been copied from a "Noori Nastaliq computerised Urdu
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calligraphy (list of ligatures)" calligraphically designed and compiled by
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Ahmad Mirza Jamil, Elite Publishers Limited, Karachi.
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