Hi,
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
> > 2 things:
> >
> > 1. You'll need the Windows fonts - just copy the c:\windows\fonts directory and
> > run "ttmkfdir <your dir>" and then add it to your xfs with
> > "/usr/sbin/chkfontpath --add <your dir with full path" and at the end - re-run
> > your xfs again..
> >
>
> I believe both ttmkfdir and chkfontpath were added to RH6.0 (and also to
> Mandrake 6.0). I have no idea how well do they apply to other distros.
>
> > 2. changing the fonts for the various encoding has been added lately - and you
> > can see it on the rc2 packages onwards...
> >
>
> I didn't understand you: Can Konquerer use iso-8859-8 fonts (with rc2
> onwards)?
Yes, sure.
Basically - with KDE 2.0 rc2 and upwards (final KDE 2.0 will be out this monday
btw. The rpm's are ready, but it seems there are some problems with KDM, so a
new set of RPM's are being prepared by bero from Redhat as I write this email) -
you can change any of the encoding font's - exactly as you can change in
Netscape (e.g: selecting encoding - and modifying the fonts for this ISO).
>
> In the previous message Hetz seems to have forgotten another major
> problem, which is the fonts. Most KDE2 programs need unicode fonts
> (iso10646-1). Although Konquerer maybe a special case (see my question
> above).
Let me correct myself:
You'll need the unicode fonts for the menus translations for Hebrew, and for the
title window in konqueror. You don't need it for anything else...
You do need the true-type fonts for Logical and Visual Hebrew. So you'll have to
add hebrew true type fonts (either the elmar fonts or the Windows fonts).
>
> At the moment the only availble Hebrew unicode fonts (besides gnu unifont
> and similar limited fonts) are TrueType fonts. The easiest to get -- ones
> from microsoft (either from the nearby windows workstation/partition or
> from http://microsoft.com/typography - the fonts Arial, Courier New and
> Times New Roman (Also Tahoma from Hebrew Windows). They are in some format
> of a self-extracting archive, which can also be extracted by cabextract
> (search http://freshmeat.net).
>
> Once you have the TTF files, you still need a fonts server that can
> display them.
>
> There is xfstt (availble for debian and SuSE) and xfsft . RH6 (and some
> others, as mentoined above) patched XFree3's xfs with some patches from
> xfsft (or something similar). It also added the (sometimes buggy)
> chkfontpath, which helps automates font path changes.
> Note that RH's ttmkfdir won't add the iso10646-1 encoding. Its output has
> to be slightly edited. I wrote a small script to do that (I don't have the
> URL right now, but look for 'ttmkfdir-heb' in the archives of the
> ivrix-discuss list).
Good luck. Seems no one have added to ivrix a search engine, and I didn't found
anything. Anyone can give a link?
>
> I think versions of xfstt previous to 1.1 were problematic in terms of
> supporting iso8859-8 fonts. I don't know what about unicode encodings.
The Unicode problem (from redhat view) is with the xfsft. Users of XFree 4.0.x
have the luxury of built in true type fonts (just don't forget to make
"mkfontdir <directory of fonts>"). I haven't tested it on my RH 6.2 (one of my
machines is dead and I need to take it for repair)..
>
> XFree4 has support for TrueType fonts. However - I don't know much about
> it. Can anyone elaborate?
See above :)
Hetz
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