Torah

This is an old style Hebrew Font. The keyboard mapping of most of the Hebrew alphabet corresponds to its English sound-alike letter. All 27 letters of the alphabet and 3 of the 4 punctuation marks are typed using lower-case letters only. With two exceptions (the single and double prime marks), the keyboard mapping is exactly the same as used by the Hebrew font in the WinGreek shareware package. Versions 1.8 and 1.9 (WGREEK18.ZIP or WGREEK19.ZIP) can be found on many ftp sites). 
				Lower	3-Digit
		Hebrew	Case		ANSI
		Letter	Key		Code
__________________________________________
	a	Aleph	 a		097	
	b	Bet	 b		098
	g	Gimel	 g		103
	d	Daled	 d		100
	h	Heh		 e		101
	v	Vav		 v		118	
	z	Zayin		 z		122
	x	Cheth	 x		120
	u	Teth		 u		117
	y	Yod		 y		121
	k	Chaph	 k		107
	;	Chaph-final  ;		059
	l	Lamed	 l		108
	m	Mem		 m		109
	,	Mem-final	 ,		044
	n	Nun	  	 n		110
	]	Nun-final	 ]		093
	c	Samekh	 c		099
	i	Ayin		 i		105
	p	Peh		 p		112
	[	Peh-final	 [		091
	o	Tsadi 	 o		111
	/	Tsadi-final	  /		047
	q	Koph		 q		113
	r	Resh		  r		114
	s	Shin		  s		115
	t	Tav		  t		116
Although there are no written punctuation marks in scriptural Hebrew as is written in the Torah, the following punctuation are provided in Torah Sofer for those purposes such as designing wedding or bar mitzvah announcements, brit millah (circumcision), ketubah (marriage agreement), pidyon ha'ben (redemption of the first born) documents, table place cards, etc. 
 
						3-Digit
						ANSI
				Key		Code
		__________________________	
			. 	.		046
			'	'		039
			"	" (shift ')	034
			= 	=		061
The . mark (soph-pasuk) is equivalent to a period. The = mark (makkeph) is used for hyphenated words (e.g. ynp=li). The single prime (') and double prime (") marks are used in modern Hebrew to indicate abbreviations. As examples: 
	'r   =  ybr  (Rabbi)
       y"a    =  larsy /ra (Land of Israel)
 d"nst   =  The Hebrew calendar year of 5754
The Torah Sofer font supports regular, italic, and bold italic weights.

For extensive writing in Hebrew, the capability of writng normally in the "right-to-left" fashion is obligatory. Shareware packages such as WGREEK19.ZIP (WinGreek, version 1.9) and SFONT10.ZIP (Silver Fonts, version 1.0) contain utility programs that permit typing from right to left. The SFONT10.ZIP zip file has the R2L.EXE utility which allows writing from right to left.

Font Formats: Font ID: 16595

Directory: Non-Latin/Hebrew/Torah

If you have any comments, I can be reached using e-mail at berlin@hopi.dtcc.edu, or by regular mail at: 
		Howard M. Berlin
		PO Box 9431
		Wilmington, DE 19809
		USA
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