Bugzilla – Bug 118720
Culmus is not installed/configured as default Hebrew font
Last modified: 2005-12-15 19:42:09 UTC
I've installed openSuSE RC1 and found out that useable Hebrew fonts aren't included. Most Linux systems use the Culmus (http://culmus.sf.net) fonts as default Hebrew fonts.
Mike, please comment.
I wanted to add the culmus fonts for SuSE 10.0, but couldn't find time to do it. I'll add them soon.
culmus package submitted for the next version of SuSE Linux (10.1).
Updated "selectio" package submitted for the next version of SuSE Linux. "culmus" has been added to the relevant Hebrew sections in order to install the culmus fonts by default on SuSE Linux 10.1 if the installation is done in Hebrew or Hebrew support is selected in YaST2.
Packages for SuSE Linux 10.0 are here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/10.0/RPMS/noarch/culmus-0.101-0.noarch.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/m17n/10.0/RPMS/src/culmus-0.101-0.src.rpm Closing as FIXED.
thanks a million!
I've installed 10.1 alpha 3 and chosen Hebrew as setup language but it didn't install culmus. Also, it should set "Nachlieli CLM" as the default Hebrew font and use it in the installation (it's used before the first reboot, but then a terrible font is used instead).
It is not possible that "Nachlieli CLM" is used before the first reboot because it is not in the installation images. I.e. you must be mistaken here. The only Hebrew fonts in the installation image are FreeSans.ttf FreeSansBold.ttf FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf FreeSansOblique.ttf from the freefont package. I think it doesn't make sense to add more Hebrew fonts to the instsys, the instsys should remain small to be able install on machines with little memory.
The culmus font package is unfortunately missing on the 5 CD set for SUSE 10.1 alpha3. I added Rüdiger Oertel to the CC, maybe he can comment if it is possible to add it to the CD set. As 5 CDs are not enough for all the packages we have, it is always a tradeoff to decide what to include. The only other free Hebrew fonts we have are in the package "freefont". These were the fonts you saw during the first stage of the installation. The package "freefont" is also on the CD set, but unfortunately it was not installed when the installation was done in Hebrew because there was no entry in the "selectio" package to install this for Hebrew. Stefan Dirsch has fixed this now, i.e. in future both the "culmus" and the "freefont" packages will be installed when the installation is done in Hebrew *if* they are available on the CDs at all. Installing both cannot hurt, adding "freefont" to the list of packages to install when Hebrew is selected gives a reasonable fallback if the culmus package is missing on the CDs for whatever reason.
Ofir Geri> Also, it should set "Nachlieli CLM" as the default Hebrew font That must be done in in the "<prefer>" lists in the fontconfig package which are in /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf. There are 3 prefer lists for - serif - sans-serif - monospace I guess it is OK if I set the defaults like this: serif: Frank Ruehl CLM sans-serif: Nachlieli CLM monospace: Miriam Mono CLM OK?
I added the setup as described in comment #10 to the fontconfig package and submitted it to STABLE (current snapshot of SUSE Linux). Should show up in the next alpha/beta release. fontconfig packages for SUSE 10.0 with this change are here: ftp://ftp.suse.de/pub/projects/m17n/10.0/
The fonts configuration sounds good to me. Also, after testing FreeSans, I see no reason to use Culmus in the installation, but it is very important to include Culmus in the installation CDs, for the sake of a whole nation (it's just one megabyte)! By the way, are the Culmus-fancy fonts included in the Culmus package?
Ofir Geri> The fonts configuration sounds good to me. Thank you. Ofir Geri> but it is very important to include Culmus in the Ofir Geri> installation CDs, for the sake of a whole nation (it's just Ofir Geri> one megabyte)! Yes, only 865 kByte. Rüdiger, can these fonts be included in the CD set? Ofir Geri> By the way, are the Culmus-fancy fonts included in the Ofir Geri> Culmus package? Yes.
I found that the reason why the culmus fonts were not yet included on the CDs was that they were still in the queue of packages to be checked for legal problems. The fonts are GPL and most likely they are perfectly fine to be included on the CDs, but the checks were not yet completed. I'm adding Jürgen Weigert <jw@suse.de> to the CC:, he knows best about our legal checking procedures.
Reassigning bug to Lars Rupp <lrupp@suse.de> to add the package to the CD set as soon as the legal checks are completed.
since culmus still has state "candidate" in pdb, it wouldn't be included in Alpha4. so stay tuned for the next release...
What is pdb? Does next release means some beta or 10.2?
pdb is our SUSE internal package database. That the package is marked as "candidate" there means that the legal checking whether the license is acceptable is still not finished. Next release means the next alpha or beta release after Alpha4.
culmus is now in state 'production' -- sorry, that we missed alpha4.
fast response ;-) so this is fixed in Alpha4