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March 2003

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Version 0.8 of Culmus fonts released

by Maxim Iorsh

Dear fellows! I'm pleased to announce the new version of Culmus fonts. This release adds features to the existing fonts, and also introduces some new ones. The new Drugulin face is widely used in biblical typesetting, and Ktav Yad is a simple generic handwritten face. Caladings is a collection of symbols inspired by the idea of Wingdings. It is currently incomplete, and I will be glad to receive suggestions for new symbols to be included in future releases of Caladings. The fonts can be downloaded from the site of the Culmus project: http://culmus.sourceforge.net. Please enjoy the fonts, your comments and suggestions are welcome! Best regards, Maxim. P. S. Please don't attempt graphological analysis of the Ktav Yad. I deliberately removed any characteristic that could reveal the secrets of my twisted mind. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Full list of changes: 1. Ktav Yad family introduced in medium and bold weights. 2. Drugulin family introduced in bold weight, roman and italic variations. 3. Caladings dingbats font added. 4. David and Aharoni completed with extended forms (nikud, precomposed forms etc.) 5. Terminology: italic fonts renamed to oblique in Frank Ruehl, Nachlieli, Miriam Mono and Aharoni. 6. Metrics changed for Aharoni Book Oblique and Aharoni Medium Oblique. 7. Experimental masoretic glyphs added to Frank Ruehl Meduim.

March 20, 2003