Hi Yoram, First of all, is there a culmus-discuss list? I think there should be, as the kind of comments that I'm sending here should probably be discussed in the open. Meanwhile I'm CC:ing linux-il in lack of a better place.
I had a look again at the Shmuel font, which I really like! But I found, what I think are small inconsistancies that may be seen in the following image: [image: shmuel-font-tails.png] The "serif" look different for different characters. There are more characters with more or less the same serif, e.g. ג. I looked at Shmuel Katz writing and I got the impression that he did not make this distinction. Of course there are differences between each time you manually draw a character, but I don't see the distinction between the different characters. Another issue is the lack of serif on צ. Appearently Shmuel Katz wasn't consistant there. Look e.g. at the 6th line of: http://www.zchor.org/pesach/picspesach/hagadda22.jpg which does have a serif. Personally I prefer the font with more of a triangle than a tail, but I agree that is not the way that Shmuel Katz wrote. Another issue is the Teamim fonts. I'm working on a siddur for the Nokia N900 and currently I'm using FrankRuehl CLM with my added logics for nikkud. I was very interested to test your Teamey FrankRuehl font, but unfortunately I felt it was much too spaced for my view. The large spacing between characters and the nikud and the teamim might be good for clarity, but I personally prefer the more traditional cramped version and returned to my font. For small spacing you have to make much more efforts to avoid collisions, but I think it is possible using complex multicharacter OpenType GPOS rules. Thanks again for your great work! Dov On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 21:38, Yoram Gnat <yor...@shenkar.ac.il> wrote: > Hi All, > A new font, "Shmuel CLM" joins the Fancy font family which now contains 11 > fonts of different shapes. > I designed the font in memory of Shmuel Katz (August 18, 1926 - March 26, > 2010), the Israeli artist, ilustrator and cartoonist. The font is inspired > by the letter forms of his hand drawn "Passover Hagadah" for the > Kibutzim<http://www.zchor.org/pesach/pesach.html>. > > > "Shmuel CLM" is available on the fancy fonts > page<http://culmus.sourceforge.net/fancy/index.html>of Culmus project both as > fontforge SFD source file and as truetype file. > It fully supports Hebrew niqud (vowel marks, shin dots, dagesh, rafe and > meteg) positioning. Cantillation marks (Teamim) were made transparent, thus > text including them should still be displayed with proper positioning of the > niqud. > > Regards > Yoram Gnat. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Culmus-announce mailing list > culmus-annou...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/culmus-announce > >
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