[b-hebrew] Hebrew font for OS X

Peter Bekins pbekins at fuse.net
Tue Mar 10 13:54:29 EDT 2009


On Mar 10, 2009, at 1:20 PM, b-hebrew-request at lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a Hebrew font with trope markings for Apple  
> Mac OS
> X systems?  Specifically, it should support the Unicode 5.1 Standard,
> but need NOT be free.  The readily-available Cardo font is free, but
> lacks some Unicode code points.
>
> Chris Kimball
> West Redding, CT  USA

I use SBL Hebrew (http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/ 
BiblicalFonts_SBLHebrew.aspx) or the previously mentioned Ezra SIL  
(http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php? 
site_id=nrsi&id=EzraSIL_Home).

Both are unicode, however they both use Microsoft's OpenType for  
their typographical rules. Mac OS X on the other hand uses Apple  
Advanced Typography (AAT). This means that OS X can render the  
glyphs, but it doesn't know any of the rules for where to place them  
relative to the other characters. The kind folks at Mellel built  
OpenType into the word processor to get around this problem, but  
there is no similar solution for web browsing yet.

Mac OS X ships with a few AAT fonts such as Raanana, but like Cardo  
this doesn't include all the points. I don't know of any full AAT  
Tiberian Hebrew font.

Pete Bekins


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