Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/2/24 Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org>:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> I have many nice Hebrew fonts that I would like to use for my system
>> font, however, they all have very ugly English letters. Is there a way
>> to change the font that will be used in English in these Hebrew fonts?
>
> You can use fontforge to generate a new font file with Hebrew letters from
> one file and the rest from another. Fontforge supports scripting, so you
> don't even need to use the GUI. See here for script language reference and
> simple tutorial:
>
> http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/scripting.html
> http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/scripting-tutorial.html
>

Thanks, Matan. It looks like those links contain the info I need, if
only I knew to script in Python _and_ was familiar with the way
FontForge works. Maybe that is a project for another lifetime...

Thanks, though!

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Dotan Cohen

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