Play and Learn 2/19941.ZIP/19941/FONTS/SHALOSCR/SHALOSCR.TXT

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ABOUT SHALOMSCRIPT (1.01). . .


Copyright & Distribution Information. . .

ShalomScript is copyright (c)1990, 1991 by Jonathan
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.

ShalomScript 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...

ShalomScript 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 (ShaloScr.AFM, ShaloScr.PFM,
ShaloScr.PFB, ShaloScr.sam, ShaloScr.sht, ShaloScr.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
ShalomOldStyle. 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 ShaloScr.PFB to your \PSFONTS directory.
    Copy ShaloScr.PFM to your \PSFONTS\PFM directory.
    Ignore ShaloScr.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\ShaloScr.PFM"
    Change this to
"softfonts5=c:\psfonts\pfm\ShaloScr.PFM,c:\psfonts\ShaloScr.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
[e-mail] (Internet)
or
INTERNET>[e-mail] (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

ShalomScript 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: ShalomScript 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 gumel, hey, and nun. A dagesh for
the yud may be produced with the f key.

The vowels are pretty much strung along the number keys:
1:    cheereek
2:    tzayray
3:    segol
4:    sh'va
5:    koobootz
6:    chataf segol
7:    chataf patach
8:    chataf kamatz
9:    high sh'va (9) and high kamatz (shift-9) both used only
with final chaf
-:    patach
=:    kamatz
ShalomScript 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.