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Free hebrew fonts for mac os x3/29/2024 The gold standard on this is InDesign, and Taamey David works correctly there. Now Apple's OpenType has at least in some areas surpassed the Redlers' version in Mellel. Obviously, a couple of years ago Apple's OpenType support was rather poor and Pages (among other things) couldn't set Biblical Hebrew text correctly. And as far as I know, Pages, InDesign and the other Mac OS apps all rely on the OpenType layout logic in the font to set the cantillation marks correctly. In fact, I'm not aware that it would be possible to use them in InDesign without OpenType support. The fonts do use OpenType layout, or at least the authors claim to. Hi Jannus, Thanks for your response, but I'm not convinced (yet. I use two other free OpenType Hebrew fonts that have excellent alignment both for NIKUD and TAAMIM Lyndon, these kinds of problems usually occur when the fonts are not truly designed according to the OpenType standard. It's easy to replicate (just copy and paste some Biblical text across with cantillation marks included-the same text will be set correctly by Pages or in fact any other Mac application using the Mac OS layout engine, but will fail in Mellel). They overlap with vowels, which is a real nuisance. This works fine in most applications, such as Apple Pages and InDesign, but strangely enough Mellel can't deal with the cantillation marks correctly. It has support for vowel pointing and cantillation marks. I've been using the Taamey David font, one of a set of free fonts released by the Culmus Project
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