Date:         Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:35:47 +0200
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From:         Tzafrir Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: fonts etc
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:46:03PM +0200, Ron Artstein wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Rama Porrat wrote:
>
> > hebrew.dvi says, on page 59,under "The font definition files
> > (in HE8 encoding" It uses OmegaHebrew font for regular font,
> > Old Jaffa font for italics shape and small-caps, Dead Sea font
> > for Bold face, and Tel Aviv for Bold italics"
>
> This must be a mistake, a relic of old documentation that hasn't
> been fixed.
>
> > How should the user use other font families (apart from david)
> > from Culmus? You (Ron) have suggested
> > \fontfamily{...}\selectfont Can you send me the exact syntax
> > which shifts to other font families from Culmus?
>
> Rama, as I have written to you personally, the family-changing
> interface is UNSTABLE. It has never been stable. In the past this
> was not an issue, because there weren't that many Hebrew families
> to choose from. Now we have the fonts, but it will take a while
> until we get the font-changing interface to work conveniently.
> For now I recommend that users either stick to the default, or
> be prepared to deal with some low-level font hacking.

BTW: I tried to preserve the old hebfonts font families commands by
mapping them to Culmus fonts commands. I did not try hard to match the
size, though. If anybody wants to improve thistake a look at hebrew.fdd
(source) or hebfonts.sty (in the distribution)

[snip]

>
> I would like to provide an interface where users could change the
> font family in Hebrew without it interfering with the choice of
> family in Latin typesetting. Basically I want to provide two sets
> of defaults, and have LaTeX use one for Latin typesetting and one
> for Hebrew. But I need time to implement this.

Babel seems to run quite a few commands when the language changes. Some
of them seem to be related to fonts.

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