[Biblical-languages] What will happen in the future?
Peter Kirk
peterkirk at qaya.org
Mon Dec 1 07:24:08 EST 2003
On 28/11/2003 06:13, Lionel Shaw wrote:
> Dear Peter:
>
> I have downloaded your Sil Ezra Hebrew font which permits the
> Masoretic Text to display witrh all its accents etc.
> I am very pleased with it.
> Now, when I open a Greek Bible I notice (in those I own) that the
> Greek Text is complete with accent marks etc.
> I have the Westcott & Hort Text + Nestle, and I wondered if SIL
> produced such a font which would enable this text
> to be reproduced electronically. I understand that this text is
> the product of modern scholarship.
>
> I am 75, and I enjoy searching such matters.
>
> Appreciate your comments,
> please.........................................Lionel Shaw
Lionel, you seem to be replying to a thread on this list in
February-March 2001! What was then future is now present or even past.
Both Peter Constable and I contributed to that thread, so I am not sure
if you are writing to me or to him. And since then both of us have left
SIL, so the SIL Ezra font is in no way ours.
SIL does offer two fonts, SIL Galatia and Galatia SIL, which support
fully accented Greek text. The former uses an old encoding, and the
latter Unicode, which is the most modern encoding. Both are available
free of charge from www.sil.org. See
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silgreek/ and
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=SILgrkuni.
SIL also offers the very nice font Gentium which supports Greek and
Latin scripts in Unicode, see
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium.
But unfortunately the Greek text is not available from SIL.
--
Peter Kirk
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