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[css-fonts-4] Add generic(nastaliq), #4397
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svgeesus committed Nov 22, 2023
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but if it does, that font will be in Kai style.
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<dt id="generic(nastaliq)-def"><dfn>generic(nastaliq)</dfn>
<dd>
This font family is the standard way of writing Urdu and Kashmiri,
and is also often a preferred style for Persian and other language text,
especially in literary genres such as poetry.
Key features include a sloping baseline for joined letters,
and overall complex shaping and positioning for base letters and diacritics alike.
There are also distinctive shapes for many glyphs and ligatures.
It is important not to fall back to a naskh style
for languages such as Urdu and Kashmiri.

Note: ''generic(nastaliq)'' might not map to any locally installed font,
but if it does, that font will be in Nastaliq style.

<dt id="ui-serif-def"><dfn>ui-serif</dfn>
<dd>
This font family is used for the serif variant of the system's
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