Hebrew Translation and fonts
Patrick Durusau
pdurusau at emory.edu
Sat Oct 27 07:57:35 EDT 2001
Matthew,
M & E Anstey wrote:
>
> Dear Trudy et al,
>
<snip>
>
> The best thing about open type fonts, is that anyone is free to make their
> own. TO do this, and it is not simple, you need to subscribe to the VOLT
> community with miscrosoft, and downloand their software. If you do this, and
> get Guttman Vilna (you will have to work out a legal way to do this!), and
> load it in, you will see how open type fonts work. They are really neat.
>
> I have the complete OT in unicode, without accents, and it displays
> perfectly in Guttman Vilna in HTML in IE 5 and above. IE 5.5 and above
> (maybe earlier IE as well) handles the font directions beautifuilly as well.
> So you can enter in logical order the Hebrew, followed by and English word,
> followed by Hebrew ,etc, and it will reverse the order of the Hebrew but not
> the English. The whole sentence will also wrap right-to-left, etc, etc.
>
Does the Guttman Vilna + Uniscribe properly display an accented text?
Thanks!
Patrick
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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau at emory.edu
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