Hi Dov, You were right, it was the encoding. I have manually made the glyph's unicode position to be correct, but still something is wrong (in OpenOffice): When I choose font ("Rashi") and start typing, the font is reset back to the default font. I need to type something using regular hebrew font, then select the text and choose the Rashi font for the letters. After that I can type freely. Can someone suggect why is that happening?
BTW, when I saved the ttf font from fontforge, it warned me about wrong direction for the font. I checked around and have not found how to set up font direction. http://t11.mine.nu/rashi_unicode.ttf -- Arie On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 14:38, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Probably the encoding. Open up the font in FontForge and you can both see > how the font is encoded and change its encoding to "unicode" (actually > 10646). The way fontconfig works under Linux is like linking of an > executable through ld. The first font that provides the requested range gets > to provide the glyph, otherwise it falls back to the next font, and so on. > So in your case I guess that the Rashi font did not provide the code points > for the Hebrew glyphs in the right positions, so it fell through to the next > font that fontconfig is configured to use. > > Regards, > Dov > > 2010/2/22 Arie Skliarouk <sklia...@gmail.com> > > Hi, >> >> Someone asked me whether it is possible to use rashi font on OpenOffice. I >> downloaded a ttf font from >> >> http://www.fonts.ro/font/rashi_hebrew >> >> copied it to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice (ubuntu 9.10), the font >> appeared in the font selection dropbox, but the resulting text is show using >> regular hebrew font and not rashi's font... >> >> What is the problem? >> >> -- >> Arie >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 22:44, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I have these three pages bookmarked for Hebrew fonts: >>> http://oketz.com/fonts/all.html >>> http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Hebrew.html >>> http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Hebrew2.html >>> >>> Does anybody know where to get others? >>> >>> Additionally, I need an English font like this: >>> http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/fontpartners/head_pro/ >>> Does anybody know of a similar font, yet that doesn't cost $237.00 USD? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -- >>> Dotan Cohen >>> >>> http://what-is-what.com >>> http://gibberish.co.il >>> >>> Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not >>> read all list mail. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-il mailing list >>> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >>> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> >
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