ShaloOld.txt)! It may not be sold except by users' groups for duplicating
fees, commercial services for downloading time, etc. Commercial Shareware
distribution companies (EduCorp et. al.) please contact me.Look also for
my related fonts, ShalomStick and ShalomScript. ShalomOldStyle and
ShalomStick have EXACTLY the same character widths and character mapping.
This means that you can interchange these fonts freely without any change
in length or content. ShalomScript, however, has some characters with
different widths and requires different vowels for some letters.SPECIAL
NOTES FOR IBM USERS:Shalom was created with Fontographer 3.05 and revised
with Fontographer 3.2 for the Macintosh. I have no facilities to test this
font on an IBM, so I cannot vouch for its quality. I would be happy to (try
to) fix any problems you have.INSTALLATION:The following instructions I am simply copying from the Fontographer manual. I cannot vouch for their accuracy. Use Apple File Exchange or some such program to convert the .PFB and .PFM files to IBM-readable format. Copy ShaloOld.PFB to your \PSFONTS directory. Copy ShaloOld.PFM to your \PSFONTS\PFM directory. Ignore ShaloOld.AFM form most applications. If you plan to use ATM, open the ATM Control panel under WIndows and press the "Add..." button. Select Shalo in the \PSFONTS\PFM directory and press the "Add" button. If you have a PostScript printer: Open your WIN.INI file with the Windows Notepad program. Always work on a copy in case you mess up! At the end of the "softfonts" list, you will see something like "[PostScript,LPT2]" followed by a list containing something like "softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\ShaloOld.PFM" Change this to "softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\ShaloOld.PFM,c:\psfonts\ShaloOld.PFB" Save, close, exit Windows, and Restart. Everything should be set.I may be reached at:Jonathan Brecher,
9 Skyview Road,
Lexington,
MA 02173-1112
USA
orbrecher@husc.harvard.edu (Internet)or{husc6|uunet}!husc!brecher (UUCP)orbrecher@husc.bitnet (Bitnet)orbrecher@husc.harvard.edu@internet# (AppleLink)or>INTERNET:brecher@husc.harvard.edu (CompuServe)I also regularly call the BCS*Mac BBS (617-625-6747)and The Graphics
Factory (617-849-0347)NOW FOR THE NEAT STUFF, or, WHAT THIS FONT IS
ABOUTShalomOldStyle is a fairly complete Hebrew typeface. It is, however,
just another font as far as your computer is concerned. Standard American
software is not really set up for an alphabet that reads from right to left.
Anyone using this font will find themselves composing Hebrew text "backwards,"
or left to right. Sorry, there's not a whole lot I can do about it. If you
really need a Hebrew font that writes in the right direction, you probably
want something else. IMPORTANT: ShalomOldStyle is a PostScript font
designed to be printed on a laser printer. It may or may not look good on
your screen, but it should be fine when printed.KEYBOARD MAPPINGBecause this font is not suitable for creating long Hebrew documents, I've decided not to use the "official" Hebrew keyboard mapping. (This may change if I get many requests to do so, but so far I've had none.) Instead, I've done my best to map the Hebrew alphabet to the qwerty keyboard. The aleph, bet, gimel, daled, hay, vav, zayin, chet, yod, kaf, lamed, mem, nun, samach, ayin, pey, qoph, resh, and tav are transliterated to the a,b,g,d,h,v,z,c,y,k,l,m,n,s,i,p,q,r, and t respectively. The tet and tzadi are on the e and x because I don't have a better place to put them. Final forms of the kaf, mem, nun, pey, and tzadi are on the shifted equivalent (K,M,N,P,X) The shin (without a dot) is on the w because the shape is similar, while the shin and sin with dots are on the D and S, respectively.Several exclusively Yiddish characters and combinations of characters are also provided, but in general there is no logic to the placement of these characters. A pasakh alef and a komets alef are on the A and Z keys. The tsvey
vovn and vov yud are on the B and G keys. A khirik yud, tsvey yudn, and a
pasakh tsvey yudn may be found on F, H, and u. All of these characters
except for the pasakh tsvey yudn may be produced with other characters or
combinations of characters, however, the double-character keys have a
slightly closer spacing between the pair.The center dot (dagesh) for the
bet, kaf, pey, etc. may be placed by typing a < after (to the right of) the
letter. The > key will also provide a dagesh, but at a slightly different
offset for the nun. A dgaesh for the yud may be produced with the f key.The vowels are pretty much strung along the number keys:1: cheereek2: tzayray3: segol4: sh'va5: koobootz6: chataf segol7: chataf patach8: chataf kamatz9: high sh'va
(9) and high kamatz
(shift-9) both used only with final chaf-:
patach=: kamatzShalomOldStyle characters come in one of three widths, and since Hebrew
likes its vowels centered under the letters, there must be three
corresponding sets of vowels. Most letters take the vowels produced by the