28/01/96 - Tu Bishvat Tashnav 


This is a hebrew Type1 fonts package for Unix, designed to enable
to view hebrew documents with Netscape 1.12.

I have now modified the package, to enable viewing also with Netscape 2.0

Copy Right
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This is freeware in the public domain.

First, some notes and thanks: 
This package is simply our 'webfont' font package for PC's, modified 
for Unix. 

The possibility to use those fonts on a Unix machine was first mentioned 
in the 'Linux Hebrew How-To', edited and maintained by 
Mr. Yair G. Rajwan, with the help of various linux-il members.

The actual adaptation and configuration was done by me, 
(Ofer Margoninski omargo@www1.huji.ac.il).

A final note: 
(For those of you with some knowledge in the mystries of fonts on X)

The 'Bold' and 'Terminal' fonts are actually the same fonts
as the 'Medium' fonts (The fonts.dir entries point to the same files),
so actually we have done a little dirty trick down here. The result achieved 
is not bad at all - but I'll be happy to hear any suggestions for 
improvements...

Installation:
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Non Linux Users:
 It is best that this package will be installed by your system administrator,
 we are doubtful at the moment if regular users can install it.
 (but you can always try - your success depends very much on the 
  exact machine and configuration you use)

Linux Users:
 The instructions here will enable, we hope, even the nonexpert
 Linux user to install the fonts

To install it:

1. Find where is your font directory. On Linux systems it's on
   /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts, but it may be a variation on this on other systems.
   Lets mark this path (say /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts) as FONTSPATH.

2. Copy all of the *.pfb files to the FONTSPATH/Type1/ directory
   (If you don't have it you will have to create it and add it to your
    font path:
    In Linux add the line 
       FontPath   "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    to 'Section "Files" ' in your XF86Config)

3. If you didn't have a Type1 dir before:
   simply copy the fonts.dir and fonts.scale to FONTSPATH/Type1 

   If you did have a Type1 dir before - 
   
   a. Delete the first line (Containing only the number '5') in both files.
   b. copy fonts.dir to the end of the existing FONTSPATH/Type1/fonts.dir,
      and fonts.scale to the end of the existing FONTSPATH/Type1/fonts.scale
   c. Count the number of lines, (Without the first line, which contains 
      only a number) in each of the files, and write this number on the first 
      line in each file - The number on the first line in each file is 
      simply the number of entries (=lines) in the file.  

   A final note - yes, thats right, there are two font files and ten 
   font entries. (And it works!)
 
4. Loading the fonts on the X server - 
   On Linux, the simplest way is to exit X, and then restart it again. 

   On other systems - 
   Do what you usually do to install fonts, after you run 'mkfontdir'
   and update the FontPath:  
   usually this is :
   'xset fp+ NEWFONTDIR'
   'xset fp rehash'

   (We have 'run' mkfontdir in step 3, mkfontdir doesn't work 
    for Type1 fonts so don't run it here!)

5. Copy the following to your (sys admin: your users) .Xdefaults file:
   
Netscape*defaultCharset:	iso-8859-8 
Netscape*documentFonts.latin1*registry:				iso8859
Netscape*documentFonts.latin1*encoding:				8
Netscape*documentFonts.latin1.variable.italic*slant:            r
Netscape&documentFonts.latin1.variable.boldItalic*slant:        r
! The next two lines are important, even if you think they aren't.. 
Netscape*documentFonts.latin1.variable*family:			web
Netscape*documentFonts.latin1.fixed*family:             webmono
Netscape*bookmark*fontList:	-*-web-bold-*-*--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-8
Netscape*bookmark*multiFontList:\
-*-web-bold-*-*--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-8,\
-*-web-bold-*-*--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-8=HEADING,\
-*-web-bold-*-*--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-8=ICON


6. On Netscape 2.0 - run Netscape 2.0, choose options-fonts, 
   choose the 8859-1 charset (This is not a mistake - choose the 
   8859-1 charset, not the 8859-8, even if you have it available!)
   and specify for it the proportional font web1 and the fixed font 
   webmono1.
   (This step isn't required for Netscape 1.12)

7. This is it! 
   If everythink works fine, you will even be able to see the hebrew items 
   on your hotlist in hebrew! 

8. Mail any problems or suggestions to: 
   omargo@www1.huji.ac.il


