Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

Changing the English characters of Hebrew fonts.

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 16:35:36 IST 2009


> 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!

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