[Biblical-languages] BH translit IM/Keyboard & font

Karljürgen Feuerherm cuneiform at rogers.com
Wed Jul 16 10:34:22 EDT 2003


Peter Kirk wrote on July 16, 2003 9:04 AM

> On 16/07/2003 05:41, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote:
>
> >Peter,
> >
> >Ref:
> >
> >
> >>>>The Hebrew Bible in Unicode, but not the BHS, is available from
> >>>>http://www.mechon-mamre.org/ - the versions with cantillation marks
are
> >>>>in Unicode.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
> >and
> >
> >
> >
> >>I have remembered that the official BHS text in Unicode is available to
> >>all (who can afford $59.95) from Linguist's Software,
> >>http://www.linguistsoftware.com/bhsu.htm.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I have just found the following SIL page on the subject:
> >
> >http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silhebrew/BHSTexts.htm
> >
> >which may be of interest to list readers.
> >
> >K
> >
> >
> >
> Does this one still work? It is based on something I found several years
> ago. In any case the instructions given are for getting the text into
> the older (legacy encoded) Hebrew Font System. But it would be easier to
> convert to Unicode Hebrew, though there are some tricky issues as well.

Arg! I hadn't noticed (SIL Ezra vs. Ezra SIL)! I have sent a query asking
whether they're put out updated conversion rules. Will advise.

K




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