On Mon, 17 May 1999, Avishay Dinar wrote:
> Hi Oded,
> Do you know where can I get the true type server and how do I integrate
> Hebrew fonts with it?
you can find various truetype servers on the web (surpries surprise !).
there's xfstt and xfsft (carefull not to mix these two though they're
very similar in the way they work), there's the Bero TrueType server and
Mandrake have they're own version of the Bero server.
I use xfstt because when you install it from RPM it does almost everything
except install fonts. you can probably get the RPM from rpmfind, or you
can pick it from ftp://ftp.betalfa.org.il/pub/download/linux/install .
things that you need to do after you install it :
* add the following option to the line that runs xfstt (should be
somewhere in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfstt) :
--encoding iso8859-1,iso8859-8,windows-1251
this will allow you to use the hebrew glyphs from the font file.
* if you are using RedHat 6.0 and the RedHat font server (it's doesn't
serve truetype fonts) you may encounter some problems with X, because both
try to use the same port. change xfstt's port to something else, with
--port <port number>
you may also need to change xfs's port.
* add the following line after all the FontPath entries in
/etc/X11/XF86Config :
FontPath "unix/:7100" (or whatever port you put it on - 7100 is the
default". if you change the xfs port, make sure to change that too in the
config file.
* put some truetype font files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType and
restart xfstt.
about getting hebrew truetype fonts, I don't know from where. I know that
there are free hebrew fonts (all the fonts used by ms-windows for example)
but I don't know where you might be able to download them. I saw some
sites where people who make hebrew fonts post some font's for free, but
nont are good for every-day use. you can use webfonts, like Web Hebrew
Advanced or Globes MCL , but their ugly and will hurt your eyes after a
while :-|.. or you can simply buy a font CD... they cost about 50 or so
NIS for a few hundred fonts...
Oded
