From cf899bc6a95cd0b2be15a816dd8ad9ec2157f8bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Khaled Hosny <khaled@aliftype.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:41:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Restore build instructions

---
 README.md | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 180e52c477..e9d831f11d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,5 +40,18 @@ character and glyph coverage. Amiri development might be restarted in the
 future under a different name with less backward-compatibility constraints, but
 nothing concrete is currently planed.
 
+Building
+--------
+
+To build the fonts you need a few Python packages:
+
+    $ python -m venv amiri
+    $ . amiri/bin/activate
+    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+To build the font files run:
+
+    $ make ttf
+
 [1]: https://www.bibalex.org/bulaqpress/en/bulaq.htm "The Bulaq Press"
 [2]: https://openfontlicense.org "The Open Font License"