Re: Culmus Hebrew fnts

On 8/4/05, hermanmeester <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Herman,
> This doesn't answer your question about Culmus fonts, but I also had a
> hard time finding a font for my system that looked good in English and
> in Hebrew. I finally downloaded the Tahoma font from Microsoft, and am
> very happy. Verenda is also very similar to Tahoma and displays well
> in English and in Hebrew. The only font that I found in a standard
> Linux distro that halfway looks good in both languages is Ellinia. The
> Hebrew is a little fancy (not biblical fancy, mind you), but I got
> used to that quickly. I will be happy to send to you Tahoma and
> Ellinia if you want.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/124/collins_phil.php
> Collins, Phil Song Lyrics
> 
> 
> Thanks Dotan,
> 
> I would like to ask you to get me those fonts, but now I'm even more puzzled.
> All my fonts work perfectly (even Persian, Korean...), except all the Hebrew fonts that I installed: these just don't come out as they should (only the hebrew fonts that were already there from the start function well).
> So I think I could not install your fonts either.
> 
> I think my system has a problem with the way Openoffice handles any newly imported hebrew fonts. I'll just have to give it up until I update my whole system.
> I may or may not have created the problem myself ^^
> 
> About the hebrew fonts that look good in both Hebrew and English;
> Did you install the Culmus fonts? Maybe it looks traditional, but I think Frank Ruehl's Hebrew and western fonts of Culmus is not so bad. And I liked the Nachlieli. Do you also have freesans.ttf (truetype)? The western letters of that one look very "sans"ish, maybe minimalistic, but so far I have to use only those. The freeserif.ttf look so biblical that you just can't use it, it's as if someone grafted them by hand in a piece of stone ^^.
> If you like a retro feel, try the freemono.ttf and make them all bold, you'd have a very inky typewriter (If it's not bold it looks not good).
> 
> Anyway if anyone would know anything specific relating to hebrew fonts, and the configuration for OOo, I'd always be interested.
> 
> Thanks, & regards
> herman

I haven't tried the Culmus fonts yet. But I find that any font that I
put in /usr/share/fonts worked. I'll give them a try when studies are
a little less pressing. How does KDE/Gnome handle the Culmus fonts?
See what you have in the control center.

Dotan Cohen
http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/361/mullins_shawn.php
Mullins, Shawn Song Lyrics

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