Torah

TORAH SOFER (Torah Scribe) is a shareware Hebrew font package for
MS Windows. Its typeface replicates the style used in Torah scrolls in
regular, Bold, and Bold Italic weights. There are all 27 letters of
the Hebrew alphabet plus four punctuation characters. As with
scriptural Hebrew style written in the Torah, no vowel signs or
points, no "sh'va", and no cantillation marks (disjunctives and
conjunctives) are supported as may be done with other Hebrew font
packages. Although scriptural Hebrew does not use punctuation, modern
Hebrew does, and the "soph-pasuk" (:), "makkeph" (-), single prime (')
and double prime (") marks are included as a conveience.

The keyboard mapping of most of the Hebrew alphabet corresponds to its 
English sound-alike letter. All 27 letters of the alphabet and 3 of the 
4 punctuation marks are typed using lower-case letters only. With two 
exceptions (the single and double prime marks), the keyboard mapping is 
exactly the same as used by the Hebrew font in the WinGreek shareware 
package. Versions 1.8 and 1.9 (WGREEK18.ZIP or WGREEK19.ZIP) can be 
found on many ftp sites).

				Lower	3-Digit
		Hebrew	Case		ANSI
		Letter	Key		Code
__________________________________________
	a	Aleph	 a		097	
	b	Bet	 b		098
	g	Gimel	 g		103
	d	Daled	 d		100
	h	Heh		 e		101
	v	Vav		 v		118	
	z	Zayin		 z		122
	x	Cheth	 x		120
	u	Teth		 u		117
	y	Yod		 y		121
	k	Chaph	 k		107
	;	Chaph-final  ;		059
	l	Lamed	 l		108
	m	Mem		 m		109
	,	Mem-final	 ,		044
	n	Nun	  	 n		110
	]	Nun-final	 ]		093
	c	Samekh	 c		099
	i	Ayin		 i		105
	p	Peh		 p		112
	[	Peh-final	 [		091
	o	Tsadi 	 o		111
	/	Tsadi-final	  /		047
	q	Koph		 q		113
	r	Resh		  r		114
	s	Shin		  s		115
	t	Tav		  t		116
		

Although there are no written punctuation marks in scriptural Hebrew as 
is written in the Torah, the following punctuation are provided in Torah 
Sofer for those purposes such as designing wedding or bar mitzvah 
announcements, brit millah (circumcision),  ketubah (marriage agreement), 
pidyon ha'ben (redemption of the first born) documents, table place cards, 
etc.
 
						3-Digit
						ANSI
				Key		Code
		__________________________	
			. 	.		046
			'	'		039
			"	" (shift ')	034
			= 	=		061		

The . mark (soph-pasuk) is equivalent to a period. The = mark (makkeph) 
is used for hyphenated words (e.g. ynp=li). The single prime (') and 
double prime (") marks are used in modern Hebrew to indicate abbreviations. 
As examples:

	'r   =  ybr  (Rabbi)
       y"a    =  larsy /ra (Land of Israel)
 d"nst   =  The Hebrew calendar year of 5754

The Torah Sofer font supports regular, Italic, and Bold Italic weights.

For extensive writing in Hebrew, the capability of writng normally in the 
"right-to-left" fashion is obligatory. Shareware packages such as 
WGREEK19.ZIP (WinGreek, version 1.9) and SFONT10.ZIP (Silver Fonts, 
version 1.0) contain utility programs that permit typing from right to 
left. The SFONT10.ZIP zip file has the R2L.EXE utility which allows writing 
from right to left. 

Font Formats: -  Adobe (Type 1 [pfa & pfb], Type 3, Bitmap)
              -  DMF (+ bitmap)
              -  Bitmap (Black&White & Colour [8 Colours])
              -  IntelliFont

Font ID:      16595

Directory:    Non-Latin/Hebrew/Torah

If you have any comments, I can be reached using e-mail at 
berlin@hopi.dtcc.edu, or by regular mail at:

		Howard M. Berlin
		PO Box 9431
		Wilmington, DE 19809
		USA

If you continue to use Torah Sofer beyond the 30-day trial period, a $5 
registration fee is required. Enjoy.

This is how it looks like: 

   Black&White