Good places for Hebrew fonts

[Arie Skliarouk]

Hi Dov,

You were right, it was the encoding. I have manually made the glyph's
unicode position to be correct, but still something is wrong (in
OpenOffice):
When I choose font ("Rashi") and start typing, the font is reset back to the
default font. I need to type something using regular hebrew font, then
select the text and choose the Rashi font for the letters. After that I can
type freely.
Can someone suggect why is that happening?

BTW, when I saved the ttf font from fontforge, it warned me about wrong
direction for the font. I checked around and have not found how to set up
font direction.

http://t11.mine.nu/rashi_unicode.ttf

--
Arie



On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 14:38, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com> wrote:

> Probably the encoding. Open up the font in FontForge and you can both see
> how the font is encoded and change its encoding to "unicode" (actually
> 10646). The way fontconfig works under Linux is like linking of an
> executable through ld. The first font that provides the requested range gets
> to provide the glyph, otherwise it falls back to the next font, and so on.
> So in your case I guess that the Rashi font did not provide the code points
> for the Hebrew glyphs in the right positions, so it fell through to the next
> font that fontconfig is configured to use.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
> 2010/2/22 Arie Skliarouk <skliarie at gmail.com>
>
> Hi,
>>
>> Someone asked me whether it is possible to use rashi font on OpenOffice. I
>> downloaded a ttf font from
>>
>> http://www.fonts.ro/font/rashi_hebrew
>>
>> copied it to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice (ubuntu 9.10), the font
>> appeared in the font selection dropbox, but the resulting text is show using
>> regular hebrew font and not rashi's font...
>>
>> What is the problem?
>>
>> --
>> Arie
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 22:44, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have these three pages bookmarked for Hebrew fonts:
>>> http://oketz.com/fonts/all.html
>>> http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Hebrew.html
>>> http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Hebrew2.html
>>>
>>> Does anybody know where to get others?
>>>
>>> Additionally, I need an English font like this:
>>> http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontpartners/head_pro/
>>> Does anybody know of a similar font, yet that doesn't cost $237.00 USD?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dotan Cohen
>>>
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