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Remember to put it before the }. The more number percentage, the more space is added. If you wanted to decrease the line height spacing, decrease the percentage. You may use any number (e.g. 85% or 140%) or use the special value "normal" which will properly use the minimum setting of the line-height
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and present to remove boldness, e.g. in section titles, because Arabic diacritics are best read only in normal weight, but also because some fonts do not exist in bold styles; without it, other fallback fonts would be used instead (possibly with lover coverage), or boldness may be synthetized from a
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style which is part of the site-wide CSS stylesheet; this HTML attribute also activates the CSS style "direction: rtl" (which should be implemented by default in browsers, but is also set in the site-wide CSS stylesheet). This attribute can be disabled via
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Arial, 'Times New Roman', 'Sakkal Majalla', 'Microsoft Uighur', 'Arabic Typesetting', 'Microsoft Sans Serif', 'Segoe UI'. (The newest versions which are available free-of-charge online are marked as
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The list of fonts should always be terminated by the pseudo-font names "sans-serif" and/or "serif", to allow using the fonts defined in user preferences in their browser, or the fonts set by default in
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parameter can be used to override the generated style (for example another font size) or to specify additional CSS formattings (e.g. color).
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You may choose to add the line-height phrase if you wanted to make lines in a paragraph more spaced from each other, or less spaced.
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An example making the font size 105%, and choosing Droid Arabic Naskh to be the main font with Arial as an additional font :
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This template is to render properly Arabic-based scripts which don't use the main Arabic alphabet, also to ensure that
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Scheherazade New, Scheherazade, Lateef, Amiri, Noto Naskh Arabic, Droid Arabic Naskh, Noto Sans Arabic, Harmattan,
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The default line-height used by Knowledge (XXG) is 1.5 em, which can be lower or higher than the font default,
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reduce it to the minimum recommended for HTML by using the word normal or for example, use a percentage
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for entire paragraphs of Arabic text, however, they do not force choosing the fonts in that template.
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Font names containing spaces (or any other character than a letter) need to be put between
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parameter can be used for specifying additional HTML attributes (for example a descriptive
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The 1st parameter is mandatory and contains the text written in the Arabic script.
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Any user can use another font with a different size by writing the following on
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If the previous fonts are not installed, other fallback fonts would display:
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Some Arabic-based letters aren't rendered properly by some old versions of
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Use simple {{lang|ar|...}} for inline citation of Arabic language. Use
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HTML element is sufficient to also activate on Knowledge (XXG) the
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and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's
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These fonts contain all Arabic character defined in Unicode (see
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Template intended to force following fonts if installed:
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The font size was fixed at 125% for better readability.
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Template:Script
view
edit
history
purge
approximately 3,500 pages
/sandbox
/testcases
user subpage
talk page
CSS
TemplateStyles
Template:Script/styles arabic.css
Arabic diacritics
template:Arabic alphabet shapes
rtl-para
Template:Script/styles arabic.css
Scheherazade New
Scheherazade
Lateef
Amiri

Noto Naskh Arabic
Droid Arabic Naskh
ريال
Noto Sans Arabic
Harmattan
Arabic script in Unicode
Arabic script
Apple

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