BSD Ports

fonts/sil-fonts/idiqlat 2.100 OpenBSD

modernized East Syriac font

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Anthony J. Bentley <[email protected]>
Categories
fonts

Description

The Idiqlat font supports the East Syriac style of the Syriac script. The font has support for glyph alternates, ligatures, and diacritics that the East Syriac style requires. The design of the font is a resized and modernized revival of metal type cut in India from around 1920.

The font name, Idiqlat, means "Tigris River" in ancient Akkadian/Assyrian. The emphasis is on the first syllable: EE-dee-klat.

The East Syriac style is used primarily by the Assyrians (Church of the East) and Chaldeans. It is also used by the Syrian Orthodox in headings of texts.

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add idiqlat

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/fonts/sil-fonts/idiqlat && make install

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right (to build, as it needs nothing to run); at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

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