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Hillel: The new fancy font from Culmus
by Maxim Iorsh 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hello everyone, I’m glad to announce the availability of the new fancy font named “Hillel”, which can be found at the Culmus site (http://culmus.sourceforge.net/) in the section of fancy fonts. The font is available in both Type 1 and OTF formats; the latter can also be used in Windows. Please note that in Windows the font is listed under its Hebrew name as "הלל", and can be found at the very bottom of the list of fonts. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Best regards, -- Maxim.

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Bugfix release 0.103 of Culmus fonts
by Maxim Iorsh 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Hello all, I have just released the new 0.103 version of Culmus fonts. This release fixes a few minor issues in David TrueType font. It doesn't affect any other fonts. Changes: 1. Fixed "yod-hiriq" placement. 2. Fixed bad "dagesh" placement in some circumstances. 3. Added "qamats qatan" and a few other diacritics. 4. "Vav with holam haser" distinguished from "holam male". (not supported in OOo) Please note that the RPM package has been created on Ubuntu, which doesn't support RPM natively. Therefore I don't really know how it would work on other systems. As usual, the fonts can be downloaded from the site of the Culmus project: http://culmus.sourceforge.net <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/> . Please give them a try and let me know your comments or suggestions. Best regards, -- Maxim.

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Ancient Semitic Fonts 0.05-1
by Yoram Gnat 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

This minor relase includes corrections required for Windows fonts rendering and a ZIP file with fonts ready to be used in Windows operating systems Yoram

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Ancient Semitic Fonts 0.05-0
by Yoram Gnat 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

The first version (0.05-0) of Ancient Semitic Fonts starting with Proto-Canaanite script going trough Phoenician, Paleo-Hebrew, Aramaic till modern Hebrew square script is now available as part of Culmus project. See the "Ancient Semitic scripts" area on the Culmus Web site. Yoram Gnat

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A new David font with cantillation marks
by Maxim Iorsh 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

Shalom, A new "David YG" Medium font with cantillation marks support is available from the Developer's area at the Culmus.sf.net site. This font was kindly provided by Yoram Gnat. The marks layout algorithm is based on work by Ralph Hancock and John Hudson. Best regards, -- Maxim Iorsh.

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Version 0.102 of Culmus fonts released
by Maxim Iorsh 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Hello all, I'm glad to announce the availability of the new release of Culmus fonts. This release updates just one font family - David. Despite a minor version number increase, this update introduces a major change. The new David font is published in the TrueType format with OpenType features. With appropriate software it would be able to display Hebrew diacritics in a proper manner. Visually, all weights were lightened and made more spacious. Note that this introduces some incompatibility with older versions. With transition to the new release the same text in David will take more space on a page, even though the line spacing remains the same. I'm sorry to mess up your carefully laid out documents, but I sincerely believe that the new incarnation looks better and is more legible than the old one. On the contents level, the font family has been expanded with several new features: . New bold-Italic weight . Extended punctuation symbols (ellipsis, dashes, etc.) . Currency symbols (pound, euro) As usual, the fonts can be downloaded from the site of the Culmus project: http://culmus.sourceforge.net. Please give them a try and let me know your comments or suggestions. The rpm file was tested on a rather ancient SuSE 10.1 system, but I hope it works with newer ones too. Since this release introduces a new TrueType file format, I kindly ask package maintainers to refrain from propagating it into automatic update systems for two or three days. This should allow bugs to surface, if there are any, and give me time to fix them before the fonts are distributed to the larger community. A note to package maintainers: this release comes with a source package (culmus-src-0.102.tar.gz). This package contains the FontForge sources of David font, and I would be truly grateful if they are distributed in the same manner as all other source packages.

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"David OT" OpenType font
by Maxim Iorsh 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Shalom, A new font "David OT" is available from the Developer's area at the Culmus.sf.net site. I first published it at the beginning of 2008 without any announcement, and this update contains a fix of an OpenOffice PDF exporting issue. The font contains all the necessary OpenType features to display proper Hebrew diacritics. In addition, it includes several new characters, such as currency symbols and extended punctuation. Please let me know about any issues with this font. Best regards, -- Maxim Iorsh.

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Re: A new fancy font from Culmus
by Dov Grobgeld 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Regarding the printing of open type fonts, this may be done simplistically with my paps program, that I just updated. See: http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/paps/ I have also worked on turning paps into a library which means that soon any pango-based program (gtk in practice) can easily add postscript output. You may also use any type of font within inkscape, which since version 0.42 works just fine with Hebrew (except nikkud). It also supports printing, since it like paps turn all fonts into postscript primitives. Maxim, btw and totally unrelated, I'm curious... What is your work flow when you design a font? Do you start with some characteristic characters and then do copy, paste and modify to create the rest? What if you are then not happy with some global property like e.g. the ratio of the vertical to the horizontal stem thickness, or the "spits" at the end of the stems? Does it mean that you have to start from the beginning? Perhaps you could add some design description to the culmus site. :-) Regards, Dov On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:47:09PM +0200, Maxim Iorsh wrote: > Hello all, > > Im still alive. Besides that, a new font named Anka is available for > download from the Fancy fonts section of the Culmus site > (http://culmus.sourceforge.net/). > > Unlike in past releases, this time I chose to publish in addition the > OpenType version of the font. Unfortunately, most Linux applications > dont support OpenType, or support it only partially: > 1. Gedit and Kword can both display it, but fail to print. > 2. OO and Abiword on Linux dont even recognize it, while Abiword > on Windows displays and prints it just fine, so I guess OO+Windows will > work too. > 3. MS Word supports the OpenType version too, except for WordArt. > > In fact, in Windows you even get some rudimentary kerning, which is > supposed to make font look a little better in print. In an unrelated > issue, in Windows the font is listed under its Hebrew name as "àð÷ä", > and can be found at the very bottom of the list of fonts. > > Your comments and suggestions are welcome. > > Maxim.

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A new fancy font from Culmus
by Maxim Iorsh 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hello all, I’m still alive. Besides that, a new font named “Anka” is available for download from the “Fancy fonts” section of the Culmus site (http://culmus.sourceforge.net/). Unlike in past releases, this time I chose to publish in addition the OpenType version of the font. Unfortunately, most Linux applications don’t support OpenType, or support it only partially: 1. Gedit and Kword can both display it, but fail to print. 2. OO and Abiword on Linux don’t even recognize it, while Abiword on Windows displays and prints it just fine, so I guess OO+Windows will work too. 3. MS Word supports the OpenType version too, except for WordArt. In fact, in Windows you even get some rudimentary kerning, which is supposed to make font look a little better in print. In an unrelated issue, in Windows the font is listed under its Hebrew name as "אנקה", and can be found at the very bottom of the list of fonts. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Maxim.

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Experimental OpenType support in Culmus fonts
by Maxim Iorsh 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Shalom! I'm glad to announce the release of an experimental OpenType font under the auspices of Culmus project. This is an instance of Frank Ruehl, aimed to allow testing of Hebrew OpenType support in various applications. The font can be found in the Developers' area of the Culmus site (http://culmus.sf.net), and it comes together with a Unicode test file, and a sample postscript output which demonstrates what the correct rendering should look like. Meanwhile, I achieved the following results with most common software environments: 1. Gnome - supported with Pango 1.8 and glib 2.6.2. This support is due to the patch by Dov Grobgeld, available in pango 1.6 or later (included e.g. in Mandrake cooker or Fedora Core 3). Dov also kindly agreed to test my font on his machine, and the positive results of this test were very encouraging for me. 2. KDE - supported with Qt 3.3.3 and kdebase 3.2.3. I believe all versions of Qt starting from 3.2 support OpenType, but from my experience the support is rather buggy. 3. OpenOffice.org - not supported with version 1.1.3 on Linux, see bug 16032 (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16032). 4. Windows - supported with XP SP2 (usp10.dll version 1.0420.2600.2180). On some systems applications such as Word or Notepad display the text properly, but tend to crash while using this font. I would be glad to receive your comments or reports about the state of OpenType support in additional environments. Please post your replies to ivrix-discuss, to avoid splitting the discussion over different lists. Best regards, Maxim.

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