RE: Culmus Hebrew fnts

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

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