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ABOUT THE SHALOM FONT FAMILY (1.1.2). . .

Copyright & Distribution Information. . .

Shalom-OldStyle is copyright (c)1990, 1991, 1992 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.

Shalom is distributed under a modified Shareware concept. I've devoted
something over 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...

Shalom was created with Fontographer 3.0.5 and revised with Fontographer 3.2
on a Macintosh SE. It is a Type 1 font family. Versions are available
for the Macintosh, the IBM, and the NeXT(tm), 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.  For the NeXT version, just make sure all files in the
directories Shalom-OldStyle.font, Shalom-Stick.font or Shalom-Script.font
are delivered (if you're supplying an individual font), or just distribute
the whole Shalom.pkg package.  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.

The Shalom family consists of three fonts: Shalom-Stick,
Shalom-OldStyle and Shalom-Script.  Shalom-OldStyle and Shalom-Stick
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.  Shalom-Script, however, has some characters
with different widths and requires different vowels for some letters.


I may be reached at:

Jonathan Brecher, 9 Skyview Road, Lexington, MA 02173-1112 USA
or
[e-mail] (Internet)
or
{husc6|uunet}!husc!brecher (UUCP)
or
[e-mail] (Bitnet)
or
[e-mail]@internet# (AppleLink)
or
>INTERNET:[e-mail] (CompuServe)

I also regularly call the BCS*Mac BBS (617-625-6747)
and The Graphics Factory (617-849-0347)


SPECIAL NOTES FOR NeXT USERS:

Shalom was created on a Macintosh. I have no facilities to test this
font on a NeXT, so I cannot vouch for its quality. I would be happy to
(try to) fix any problems you have with the font's appearance.

The NeXT distribution was prepared by Jacob Gore <[e-mail]> (3044 S.
Akron St., Denver, CO 80231-4605; fax [phone]).  All questions
regarding installation of this font under NeXTSTEP(tm) should be directed to
him.  I thank him for the time and effort he has spent in getting this
font to work properly on the NeXT.

INSTALLATION ON A NeXT:

Double-click on Shalom.pkg, and install as usual.  Run

    buildafmdir directory-where-you-installed-it
    cacheAFMdata directory-where-you-installed-it

(not always necessary, but do it for good measure).

(Installation instructions for individual fonts are available in ReadMe
files for the individual fonts.)

INSTALLATION ON OTHER SYSTEMS:

Let me repeat that this is a NeXT version of Shalom.  If you want to
install it on another system, please get the version customized for that
system.  If you cannot locate a version for your system, please contact me
at an address above.


NOW FOR THE NEAT STUFF, or, WHAT THIS FONT IS ABOUT

Shalom 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: Shalom is a PostScript font family 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

Shalom 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.

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