Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

[Dov Grobgeld]

If you are using fontconfig, which at least KDE and Gtk are using, then you
may want to use a Hebrew font without any Latin letters. fontconfig does
font matching per character according to a priority queue. If the highest
priority font does not contain a given glyph, then the next font in the
queue gets the chance and so on. Thus if you put a Hebrew only font at the
top of the queue it will only supply the Hebrew characters.

This is how "sans", "serif" and "monotype" work. A nice program for checking
what glyphs you get for the different fontconfig fonts is gucharmap.

Regards,
Dov

2009/2/24 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>

> > You don't need that much. Here's a script that takes the letters from a
> > hebrew fonts and adds them to another font:
> >
> > Open("NachlieliCLM-BoldOblique.pfa")
> > SelectAll()
> > Scale(200)
> > Generate("tmp.ttf")
> > Open("SwaBI4nh.ttf")
> > MergeFonts("tmp.ttf")
> > Generate("SwaBI4nh-h.ttf")
> >
> > There are two things you need to change:
> > Easy - the name of the fonts
> > A bit harder - change SelectAll with a function that only selects hebrew
> > letters. I used SelectAll since the Hebrew font I used only has Hebrew
> > letters.
> >
>
> Thanks, Matan!
>
> 1) The default font viewers in KDE apply English letters. How can I
> know which letters come in any one font?
>
> 2) This works on fonts installed in ~/.fonts or elsewhere?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
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