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Subtopics available on this page:
    1) Where to get Hebrew Fonts
    2) Decorative and Word Processing Fonts
    3) Font Encoding
    4) Font Utilities
    5) English Font with Hebrew Look and Feel
    6) STAM - Technical Specifications for Torah Scroll Letters
    7) All-Hebrew Web Sites - to see if your Fonts Work

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What makes the Font Gallery Deluxe truly unique is the full complement of vowels and cantillation marks that are available in these fonts. DavkaWriter users, of course, can easily access these special characters within the program itself. And now, for the first time, users of non-Hebrew Windows programs, can utilize these special characters by typing right-to-left within the all-new HebrewTyper applet, included with the Font Gallery Deluxe, and paste the Hebrew text into their regular Windows programs!

On the Mac side, the fonts are compatible with Nisus, the popular Hebrew/English word processor, and can be used with vowels. If you don't have Nisus, and are using a standard left-to-right Mac application, you can still enter Hebrew text left-to-right, and enter vowels, and cantillation marks as well, for short passages.

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Automatic bulleting, numbering and outlining--Great for creating and organizing information
Yiddish support-full entry of all Yiddish-specific Hebrew characters, including YIVO!
Borders around graphics and watermarks-Adds that special touch!
Find in Files command-Search for any word or words-in Hebrew or English, in your entire DavkaWriter file directory, and see the results in a flash!
New styles in format menu- Inscribed Outline, Circumscribed Outline, Black-Filled Outline, 3D Shadow, 3D Block!
Document Tabs--A tab appears along the bottom of the screen for each open document, letting you switch among them with the click of a button.

Sophisticated Tools

DavkaWriter is very easy to learn and use. It's simple to switch between Hebrew and English, and the on-screen keyboard makes it easy to enter text. Yet, underneath the ease and simplicity lies a powerful and sophisticated word processor.

Drag and drop editing, unlimited undo of previous actions
Easy-to-use, customized placement of nekudot and trop with Intelli-Accent
Context sensitive menus, live scrolling, customizable tool bar
Large selection of Hebrew and English fonts, listed separately and previewed
Nekudot and trop can appear in all Hebrew fonts
Drop Caps
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Inserts tables, columns, and graphics easily
Footnotes, headers and footers easily inserted
Enables creation of templates

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Includes about 20 professional Hebrew fonts.

I have tried to include every web site that might be useful to anyone.
If you are in a hurry, only try the web sites that say "Great" beside them.
These are the sites that have been most useful to me.

NOTE: There is no one standard Hebrew font. All Hebrew fonts are not the same. Many have totally different keyboard mappings. I am currently trying to build a chart that shows the most common mappings. I have not been able to find a list of these mappings anywhere on the web.

List of place that offer Hebrew Fonts (usually free):

Great http://www.snunit.k12.il/hebrewunix.html - Hebrew Fonts for Unix/Netscape
http://www.snunit.k12.il/package/ -

http://www.stanford.edu/~nadav/hebrew.html - webfont.exe & netext.exe
As of Nov 2000, I had better luck getting the font from this site than the following ones.
http://www.ibm.net.il/ibm/hebrew_font.html - webfont.exe & netext.exe

Contents of zip file (webfont.exe)

wehad.ttf Truetype font in the Helvetica/David style (proportional)
wehm.ttf Truetype font in the Courier/Shalom Stick style (fixed space) Click here for a few more quick details about these fonts.

http://www.qsm.co.il/Hebrew/hebrew.htm - Jonathan (Jony) Rosenne's Hebrew Page

http://www.dtcc.edu/~berlin/font/hebrew.htm - Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font Guide - 20 or 30 Free downloadable fonts, no samples shown, you just have to download them and see what they look like.

http://www.theology.edu/fonts.htm - SPTiberian Font for IBM/MAC
with a complete keyboard map (which is hard to find for many Hebrew fonts).
Uses Michigan-Claremont encoding scheme.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1089/othrsfnt.htm - includes two fonts "Israel Didovsky" and "Amir Ashkenazi"; Examples follow:

http://sefer.hypermart.net/fonts.html - Four modern/artsy fonts. This site is in Hebrew, but by moving the cursor over the hyperlinks, you can go to the other four pages, and find the .zip files to download. This site has annoy pop-ups from its free hosting service.

http://logicsoft.netvision.net.il - Another all-Hebrew site with a program called Easy-Heb. As of Dec 4, 2000, I am downloading and planning to check out this program. It appears to require Hebrew version of Windows? Program installs on my computer, but menus are Hebrew, help won't display, saying "file was created for a language not supported by your version of Windows".

Good http://www.oketz.com/fonts/index.html - Another all Hebrew site. Use the drop-down box. It uses dynamic HTML to change the font displayed on the web page. There are two buttons on the lower right of that page. One pops-up a a new small browser window with samples from the font. The right-most button downloads the font to your computer. NOTE: This site has changed since I captured the information below!!!

http://fontomania.hypermart.net/hebrew.htm - GREAT HEBREW FONTs - very decorative - good for banners, posters, Some free for download, some available for purchase for only about $19 each, Tapuach Collection $29, or the entire Silver Collection for approx. $44.95. Six Samples Follow:

http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silhebrew/ The SIL Hebrew Font System (SIL Ezra) provides an integrated, complete system for entering, displaying, and printing Biblical Hebrew texts, including transliteration from Hebrew into Roman text. FREE DOWNLOAD. (SIL was formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics.) Also see
http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/silfred.html for SIL FRED (Friendly Right-to-Left Editor). Simplifies typing with the SIL Ezra font.
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/lang/Hebrew.html - SIL's list of Hebrew fonts on the web

http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/ - Travultesoft Keyboard Manager, (Keyman) - FREE trial
- ongoing use may require registration and fee.

http://www.linguistsoftware.com/bhs.htm - Biblical Linguists Fonts for sale

http://home.dencity.com/Jim-Henderson/fonts/IE5-5fonts.htm Possible bug in IE 5.5 handling of Hebrew fonts (unless in Unicode).

Great Info (No Fonts) http://www.alistapart.com/stories/backwards/ - Article entitled: Walking Backwards - Supporting Non-Western Languages on the Web by Shoshannah L. Forbes.

Great http://www.qsm.co.il/Hebrew/hebrew.htm - Jonathan (Jony) Rosenne's Hebrew Page - -

Good http://www.nirdagan.com/hebrew/ - Hebrew on the Web

http://www.internity.co.il - Hebrew² Forms^TM - A whole section of products, which supports all the known Hebrew formats on the web in all kinds of WWW forms. Write Hebrew in any desire Hebrew format, and generate the sent text in any format.

http://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/hebrew.html - Another list links to Hebrew fonts

http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/assyrian.html - Assyrian/Syriac fonts

http://www.fiber.net/users/mayan/ - two sample picturew follow:

Decorative and Word Processing FONTS

Great for Newsletters, Websites, etc...

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/hebrew.html - Yamada Language Center - Mostly Macintosh Fonts (but some True Type fonts) including Roshner, Vilner, ShalomScript, ShalomOldStyle, Jerusalem, DeadSea, OldJaffa, TelAviv.

Great Link No Longer Works :( - was http://www.digirain.com/hfs/myfonts.htm - - 13 creative and original Hebrew fonts , including Southpark, Jurassic Park, StarTrek, Terminator, Metal, Millenium, Parpar, Sicot, Floersheim, Ktav Meugal, Rap, Tentacle, Tribal. (http://www.digirain.com/hfs/tutorials.htm) Also includes tutorial for dealing with Hebrew in a Font Design package called Fontgrapher.

http://www.eskyartwork.com/home.htm - Jewish Clip Art

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4965/tfont.html Okay, not Hebrew fonts, but they have Klingon, Vulcan, etc... all fonts from Star Trek

Font Encoding

Many of these are articles are VERY technical - for programmers who need to interpret various Hebrew fonts.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1555.txt - Hebrew character encoding for Internet Messages, from the IETF website (Internet Engineering Task Force)

http://www.sahbak.com - a program to assist in sending/receiving Hebrew emails (for computers/operating systems) that don't support Hebrew.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/huc-la/pre-project/table/table1.html - Hebrew Character Representation ISO 8859-8 font.

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mvcorks/code/charsets/with/U0590.html - Unicode? U+0590 through U+05FF AND http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mvcorks/code/charsets/ for info on Unicode

http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1740/n1740.htm - Interesting proposal to add the Tetragrammaton to ISO/IEC 10646

http://www.immt.pwr.wroc.pl/export_hp/test/fixed/iso8859_8.html - ISO 8859-8 (Latin/Hebrew Alphabet) also http://www.gar.no/home/mats/8859-8.htm

http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/ - Travultesoft Keyboard Manager, (Keyman) - FREE trial
- ongoing use may require registration and fee. Helps build your own Microsoft Windows Keyboard Map Layouts for Unicode Fonts.

http://www.unicode.org - What is Unicode? It is a growing standard that uses two-bytes per character to describe international fonts.

The Unicode Standard has been adopted by such industry leaders as Apple, HP, IBM, JustSystem, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys and many others. Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc., and is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646. It is supported in many operating systems, all modern browsers, and many other products. The emergence of the Unicode Standard, and the availability of tools supporting it, are among the most significant recent global software technology trends.

Incorporating Unicode into client-server or multi-tiered applications and websites offers significant cost savings over the use of legacy character sets. Unicode enables a single software product or a single website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It allows data to be transported through many different systems without corruption.

http://charts.unicode.org/Web/U0590.html - Chart of Hebrew Unicode font mapping

http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/hebrew.html - test for Hebrew Unicode support in Web Browsers

http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/ansi.html - shows ANSI character set, and why it is a problem, thus the need for Unicode

Font Utilities

Great http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/utilities_fonts.html - Alan Wood's Unicode Resources - Unicode and Multilingual Font and Keyboard Utilities. Great utilities, many Free, many under $50.

Microsoft Windows^TM - Don't forget about the simple CHARMAP (Character Map) utility that comes with Windows. It can be found under Start - Program - Accessories, then look around, or try under System Utilities.

http://heiner-eichmann.de/software/listfont/listfont.htm - LISTFONT Utility - similar to CharMap above, but very easy to use. Allows you to change the size of the font being displayed.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/tools.htm - TTFDump - intended for developers and font authors. Dumps the internal characteristics of a True Type Font (TTF) to a text file.

Get English Font that looks like Hebrew letters:

Many people have seen this font on my website and ask for it.

http://www.amerisoftinc.com/pub/peacefont.zip
(note: The filename inside the zip has three underscores between "peace" and "ttf": peace___.ttf

The phrase "At Home With Hebrew" in this banner is an example of this font.