On 8/4/05, hermanmeester
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
Herman, I just installed the Culmus fonts. So far everything is working, including Open Office. I downloaded the tar.gz, unpacked it, and mv'ed it into /usr/share/fonts. Thats all, no restart nor logout. If you installed by rpm, this may be your trouble. Note that this is a suse list, and I did this on a FC4 machine, but I think that it is still relevent enough to continue on-list, as information on hebrew fonts in general is hard to come by, and the archives need it! If suse keeps the fonts in a different directory, please say so for the archives sake. I don't know if freesans or freeserif supposed to be in Cumlus, but I didn't get them. If you want to send them to me, I'll see how it works for me and report back. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/305/lennon_john.php Lennon, John Song Lyrics