What about TrueType fonts? Windows has some fine TTFs . RedHat's font
server (that is - their own hacked xfs) supports TTFs, so basically all
you need to do is:
1. copy some .ttf files (for instance: from /mnt/dosc/windows/Fonts) to a
certain directory. For the sake of this example I assume it is
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/HebTtf
2. cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/HebTtf
3. ttmkfdir >fonts.dir
4. chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/HebTtf
At this point you should be able to use those fonts. use
xlsfonts/xfontsel/gfontsel/whatever to see if they were indeed installed.
Note that chkfontpath seems to be quite buggy. It gave me many segfaults.
It also doesn't like relative font pathes, and a path that ends with "/",
but does not verify that its input doesn't contain those.
In case of any problem with chkfontpath - simply edit /etc/X11/fs/config
and restart xfs (and X if necessary).
(can anybody add some more useful comments here?)
However - not all is well - for instance - I did not manage to use a
hebrew ttf font as a default font in kde. For some strange reason I can't
see, for instance, in "Display Properties" I could not set the font
to arial with 8859-8 charset, only to charsets iso8859-1 and koi8-r
(kfontmanager shows arial/iso8859-8 *is* installed)
The above example is from this computer which is RH 6.0/kde 1.1.2-pre2 .
Anyone here with better luck?
Tzafrir Cohen
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On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Guy wrote:
> Leonid Igolnik - LiM wrote:
>
> > www.snunit.k12.il used to have nice pages with fonts and instructions.
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Tal Fainberg wrote:
> >
> > |hi ,
> > |does anyone know where i can get hebrew font's for red-hat linux
> > |(netscape) with
> > |installation instruction .
> > |
> > |
> > |Thank's
> > |Tal
> > |
> > |
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> Hi
>
> there are some fonts at:
>
> ftp://download.netvision.net.il/pub/support/Linux/unixwebfonts_tar.gz
>
>
> Guy
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