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- ABOUT SHALOMSTICK (1.1.2, IBM version). . .
-
-
- Copyright & Distribution
- Information. . .
-
- ShalomStick is copyright (c)1990, 1991, 1992 by
- Jonathan Brecher. Johnathan Brecher. I made this font. If you mess with it or
- claim it as your
- own, I'm going to be very upset. All rights reserved, and assorted other
- legal stuff.
-
- ShalomStick is distributed under a modified Shareware
- concept. I've devoted something approaching 100 hours to this font,
- including time spent working on its previous release as part of the font
- Shalom. I have tried my utmost to produce a quality product, and I think
- I've succeeded. In fact, I have modified (dare I say improved on?) every
- single character in this font since its last release. However, only you
- know how much you use this font. At the least I would like a postcard of
- your home town, but if you use it a lot, consider that other Shareware
- fonts commonly are priced from $10-$25. Commercial fonts can range upwards
- of $50-$100. I do not believe in saying "Delete all copies of this font if
- you haven't paid me in ten days"; I would much rather you kept this font
- around in case you ever did need it. However if you do find yourself using
- it...
-
- ShalomOldStyle was created with Fontographer 3.0.5 and revised with
- Fontographer 3.2 on a Macintosh SE. It is a Type 1 font. Versions are also
- available for the Macintosh and for the NeXT, at present, and may become
- available on other platforms in the future. Please do NOT convert this font
- to any other format without my permission: I have no objections in principle,
- but I want to ensure that all copies of my font remain up to my standard of
- quality. No Warranties and stuff like that, although I would be happy to
- help you trace down any bugs. I am ALWAYS open to suggestions or (gasp!)
- criticism. Please contact me at one of the addresses below.
-
- Please give
- copies of this font to everyone, but MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE ALL RELATED
- FILES (ShaloOld.AFM, ShaloOld.PFM, ShaloOld.PFB, ShaloOld.sam, ShaloOld.sht,
- 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
- or
- brecher@husc.harvard.edu (Internet)or
- {husc6|uunet}!husc!brecher (UUCP)or
- brecher@husc.bitnet (Bitnet)or
- brecher@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
- ABOUT
-
- ShalomOldStyle 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 MAPPING
-
- Because 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
- keys listed above (1,2,3, etc.). The narrow letters (gimel, vav, zayin,
- yod, nun) use shifted numbers (!,@,#, etc.). The wide shin must use a
- third set of vowels (Q,W,E, etc.) where the appropriate key is shifted
- down one row on the keyboard and slightly to the right. In all cases the
- vowel must be typed after (to the right of) the consonant under which it
- will go. Of course, you are free to use only one set of vowels for all
- characters, but it won't look as good.
-
- For the techie types out there,
- the vowels all have zero width and negative offset. This makes editing the
- vowels extremely difficult, but there really was no other option.
-
- If you
- plan on using this font, I STRONGLY recommend printing out the cheat sheet
- that is distributed with it.
-
- The above, of course, refers only to the
- vowels which go below consonants; the cholam and shoorook may also be
- created. A full cholam may be produced by typing an o, while a cholam
- without a vav may be produced with O (shift-o). A shoorook may be created
- by typing V. All three of these vowels, including the cholam without a
- vav, are treated as separate characters in this font. They should all be
- typed BEFORE (to the left of) the appropriate consonant.
-
- There are, in
- addition, several other characters available. A high connecting bar is
- produced with the tilde (~). An overbar, which is used in Yiddish, may be
- produced with the ) key. The lowercase and capital j produce short and long
- dashes, while the L key yields an ellipsis. The grave (`) key produces a low
- (opening) quote, and the vertical bar (|) will produce an exclamation point.
- The locations of these characters are the result of trying to fit as many
- things as possible into logical locations on the keyboard. Inevitably, some
- do not end up on logical positions. Oh, well.
-
- The period, comma, semicolon,
- colon, slash, backslash, single quote, double quote, opening and closing
- brackets, and question mark are all in their expected locations.
-
- I hope
- you find this font useful.
-
- Special thanks to Alan Rodgers for his help in
- porting this font to the IBM.
-