For those of us looking for TTF fonts with Hebrew support and no 
dependency on license for Microsoft products, the Sun JDK has TTF fonts 
which contain glyphs for Hebrew.  I have checked the fonts in JDK 1.4: it 
contains 8 fonts, all variants of the Lucida family, some with bold or 
italic style.  The Hebrew glyphs are not great, IMHO, but they are not so 
bad either.
The fonts have glyphs for Hebrew points (nikud), but most of them display 
the points under the consonants shifted to the right, and truncate the 
lowest part of these points.  Lucida Bright is the best of them, and does 
quite a good job with points, except for Holam which takes too much 
horizontal space.

Appreciation of fonts is quite subjective.  You will want to check for 
yourself.

Shalom (Regards),  Mati
           Bidi Architect
           Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
           IBM Israel
           Phone: +972 2 5870999  ext. 1202    Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile: 
+972 52 554160


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