[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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