From: Jonathan Ben Avraham (yba_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 27 May 2004 - 08:16:16 IDT
Hi Maxim,
I believe that the solution is to leave the current Culmus fonts as they
are, and to make a second set of fonts with metrics compatable to MS
Hebrew font metrics. You can differentiate the new fonts with a name
suffix like "MW".
The Microsoft take on Hebrew fonts is not good enough for us to
perpertuate it into eternity by bending Culmus to correspond to it. And it
is not worth breaking the current base of documents by changing the size
of the current fonts.
Regards,
- yba
On Mon, 24 May 2004, Maxim Iorsh wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> Recently I have been asked to make a change to Culmus fonts, which would
> introduce a serious backwards incompatibility. I couldn't decide on it, so
> please express your opinion.
>
> The problem is that the size of Culmus fonts is roughly 20% larger that Windows'
> fonts. This means, that when you open a Windows document written in David font,
> all letters in Linux turn out to be 20% larger. Therefore, Shoshannah asked me
> to reduce the default size of the fonts appropriately, to make them similar to
> Windows. Technically, this is a very easy thing to do - but there is a catch:
>
> 1. If I make the change - migrating documents from Windows would be much easier,
> but all Linux users will have their documents broken and will have to readjust
> all the font sizes - this hurts.
> 2. On the contrary, if I keep the size - migrating every single document from
> Windows would require reducing manually all fonts to smaller sizes - and this
> hurts too.
> 3. If I keep the size, and someone decides to fork the fonts (this is a very
> easy thing to do, and no typographic skills are required), the exchange of
> documents between users of different word processors would be a nightmare.
>
> Another point is that Windows fonts are heterogeneous. Right now, while
> Microsoft Arial, Times New Roman and David are 16% smaller than Culmus ones,
> Guttman fonts are just 2% smaller than Culmus. If I make the change - Arial, TNR
> and David would be almost similar - and they constitute the vast majority of
> documents (still, there will be small differencies, notably in the line
> spacing). But instead Guttman fonts (which are not used that extensively, as far
> as I guess) would be replaced in Linux by 13-14% smaller fonts.
>
> Too bad, King Solomon is not among us...
>
> Best regards,
> Maxim.
>
> P. S. The bug description at OO bugzilla:
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=28239 (and there is a
> screenshot).
> P. P. S. Please keep this discussion on the Ivrix-discuss list
> (ivrix-discuss_at_ivrix.org.il)
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