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I have an installed and validated font that doesn’t appear in Pages (neither in the format side menu nor in the top menu format/show fonts). How can I get this font to appear so that I can use it in my Pages documents? I can get it to appear and I can use it in Text Edit. It’s a foreign-language font, by the way (Hebrew). Thanks!
MacOS comes with a dozen or so unicode Hebrew fonts already installed. To type unicode Hebrew in Pages or any other app, even without adding any fonts from elsewhere, you normally just need to make sure that the Hebrew icon is showing at the top right of the screen, like this
Does that not work for you?
To activate the Hebrew, Greek, or any other keyboard you need, see
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/type-language-mac-input-sources-mchlp1406/11.0/mac/11.0
(The basic idea of Unicode is that you change keyboards instead of fonts. Non-unicode Hebrew turns into Latin letters unless you have a special non-unicode Hebrew font installed. Unicode Hebrew will always display as Hebrew everywhere)
MacOS comes with a dozen or so unicode Hebrew fonts already installed. To type unicode Hebrew in Pages or any other app, even without adding any fonts from elsewhere, you normally just need to make sure that the Hebrew icon is showing at the top right of the screen, like this
Does that not work for you?
To activate the Hebrew, Greek, or any other keyboard you need, see
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/type-language-mac-input-sources-mchlp1406/11.0/mac/11.0
(The basic idea of Unicode is that you change keyboards instead of fonts. Non-unicode Hebrew turns into Latin letters unless you have a special non-unicode Hebrew font installed. Unicode Hebrew will always display as Hebrew everywhere)
atobteam1 wrote: I still can’t paste Hebrew from Accordance into Pages, and that would be really helpful to me.
Anything which you export to Unicode per the Accordance instructions should display fine in Pages and every other app.
http://accordancefiles2.com/helpfiles/OSX12/content/topics/10_ref/unicode_fonts.htm
(It really is better to use Unicode everywhere. Greek and Hebrew you produce using the US keyboard layout is not actually Greek or Hebrew -- the underlying data is Latin letters instead and will be interpreted as that in most circumstances.)
atobteam1 wrote:
It’s a foreign-language font, by the way (Hebrew).
What is the name of the font? Is it a standard unicode font that you use with the Hebrew input source provided by Apple?
(Fonts that produce Hebrew using the US input source are non-standard and may not be supported by all apps)
The name is Yehudit. It’s from a program called Accordance, by OakTree Software (not Apple). The font was importable and verified in Font Book, and shows up and is usable by TextEdit, but I can’t pull it up in Pages.
atobteam1 wrote:
The name is Yehudit. It’s from a program called Accordance, by OakTree Software (not Apple). The font was importable and verified in Font Book, and shows up and is usable by TextEdit, but I can’t pull it up in Pages.
Yes, I am pretty sure that is a legacy font that maps Hebrew to Latin, for which you are using the English keyboard to type Hebrew. Most everyone moved to Unicode long ago, in which you use different fonts and the Hebrew keyboard. I recommend you move to Unicode yourself if possible. That way the things you write do not depend on the reader having to download and install a non-standard font. I understand Accordance has a font called Accordance Unicode for precisely this purpose.
https://www.accordancebible.com/accordance-font/
If you want to continue using the legacy latin-encoded font, then some apps will probably just not work. Try LibreOffice.
I think you’re right on much of that. The new Yehudit, since 2011, is unicode, and I don’t understand that. My guess is that it means if you paste another language in your document, it’ll come out in English letters no matter what. I hope I’m wrong. Tried lots of maneuvers with FontBook, also tried placing fonts in different folders (user and computer), tried adjusting preferences in the Accordance program itself, and downloaded two or three different Hebrew unicode fonts from online (installing them, etc.). Still, can't get a Hebrew letter in Pages. Thanks for your efforts in helping me! If you have any other suggestions, I’m all ears. :)
Thanks. That helped and explained a bunch. I added a Hebrew keyboard input, so I can now write in Hebrew in Pages. I still can’t paste Hebrew from Accordance into Pages, and that would be really helpful to me.
Because of the Helena font, I can write and paste in Pages without any change in keyboard input. Wish there were a Pages Hebrew font that would enable the same. You’ve helped me. Thank you.
Thank you. In the link you provied, I saw to go to Preferences in Accordance, select Export, and to click the box at the top, "Export all characters with Unicode format." That cause all to work so that I can simply copy and paste from Accordance Hebrew and Greek to Pages, and it shows up in Hebrew and Greek in Pages, easily. Thank you much!
Installed font doesn’t appear in Pages
