I'm curious what you don't like with the Culmus fonts that are standard in
Linux distributions. Or with the Hebrew glyphs of DejaVu font for that
matter. Is it font shape or kerning that is bothering you? Can you give an
example?
Regards,
Dov
2009/6/12 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com
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I'm curious what you don't like with the Culmus fonts that are standard in
Linux distributions. Or with the Hebrew glyphs of DejaVu font for that
matter. Is it font shape or kerning that is bothering you? Can you give an
example?
Thanks a good question, Dov, and I want to give to you a good
Since all the Culmus fonts have CLM in them you can get the list as below.
You can also see the fonts at http://culmus.sourceforge.net/ .
You should also compare the various DejaVu fonts, as I believe that most
fontconfig configurations just settle for them when using generic fonts like
sans and
Here is the file with the Culmus fonts.
I am looking for a modern, non-serif font that is curvy, not boxy.
Immediately, that leaves only Caladings, Ellinia, Nachlieli, and
Yehuda. Caladings is to wide-spaced, Ellinia and Yehuda are too
narrow-bodied. That leaves Nachlieli as the only fitting
I see your point. I compared Nachlieli with Arial and DejaVu and there
certainly are some problems both Nachlieli and DejaVu Sans in my opinion:
- Both DejaVu and Nachlieli are thinner than Arial, which is not nice for
screen reading.
- Nachlieli has too short chupchikim in my opinion.
I see your point. I compared Nachlieli with Arial and DejaVu and there
certainly are some problems both Nachlieli and DejaVu Sans in my opinion:
Both DejaVu and Nachlieli are thinner than Arial, which is not nice for
screen reading.
Nachlieli has too short chupchikim in my opinion. Both for
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:17:40PM +0300, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
Since all the Culmus fonts have CLM in them you can get the list as below.
You can also see the fonts at http://culmus.sourceforge.net/ .
BTW: I quite like the fact that some fonts in Culmus have a decent em
for Hebrew that is not
BTW: I quite like the fact that some fonts in Culmus have a decent em
for Hebrew that is not Italics.
I never looked at that, but I will. Thanks.
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Oh, those fonts are unicode, and I can assure you that they do have
Hebrew fonts. I use Arial from this download all the times on browser
and many other applications (pidgin etc..)..
They are unicode, but they do not seem to contain the Hebrew glyphs.
Is there a way to open them to be
Sure,
After you install msttcorefonts package, you can do a simple thing
(I'm using KDE on Fedora 11, I don't know how to do this with GNOME):
1. Launch kfontview
2. select Open
3. go to /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/
4. select arial.ttf for example
5. select to change the text and type
Windows Vista has some very nice Hebrew fonts, in stark contrast to
Ubuntu or other Linux distros. Although one can easily aquire the
Vista fonts with English glyphs, in order to get them with Hebrew
glyphs I need to find a machine with Hebrew Vista. If anyone has
access to such a machine, I would
the msttcorefonts package does just that: it download some fonts,
place them in your distro and let you use them.
So if you use ubuntu/debian/xandros, just do: apt-get install msttcorefonts
Enjoy,
Hetz
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Dotan Cohendotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
Windows Vista has
the msttcorefonts package does just that: it download some fonts,
place them in your distro and let you use them.
So if you use ubuntu/debian/xandros, just do: apt-get install msttcorefonts
Thanks, Hetz, but the .exe on sourcefourge that it downloads only
contains Latin glyphs, no Hebrew
Oh, those fonts are unicode, and I can assure you that they do have
Hebrew fonts. I use Arial from this download all the times on browser
and many other applications (pidgin etc..)..
You can also copy the TTF files from your Vista or XP install and use
ttmkfdir so your X can recognize those
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