[Biblical-languages] Unicode Hebrew on Mac
James Ernest
jdemail at charter.net
Thu Feb 24 10:06:20 EST 2005
OK, there's progress. Mellel does handle Unicode Hebrew correctly using any
of several fonts; and Adobe InDesign / Mac OSx, Middle East edition, does
handle RTL, and to that extent manages Unicode Hebrew.
But it seems InDesign / Mac does not position vowel points correctly--with
any of the available fonts (e.g., SBL Hebrew, Ezra SIL). E.g., shewa with
dalet or resh is centered, not aligned under the downstroke of the
consonant; whereas with Windows, InDesign correctly aligns the vowel points.
Does anyone have better experience than that with Unicode InDesign / Mac?
James
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:biblical-languages-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On
> Behalf Of Ken Penner
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 4:24 PM
> To: 'Biblical Languages'
> Subject: RE: [Biblical-languages] Unicode Hebrew on Mac
>
>
> I know InDesign handles RTL, so I see no problem with either option.
>
> Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A.
> (Hebrew Poetry) Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
> pennerkm at mcmaster.ca Flash! Pro vocabulary software:
> http://s91279732.onlinehome.us/flash or
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flash_pro/join
>
>
> > May I ask a follow-up? Does anyone have any reason to think
> > either of these
> > two options wouldn't work with files containing Unicode
> > Hebrew: (a) all on
> > the Mac, use Mellel or Open Office for word processing,
> then use Adobe
> > InDesign (International Edition) for DTP; or (b) change
> > horses in midstream:
> > do the word processing on a PC using WinWord, then on the Mac
> > import the doc
> > into InDesign. From what I've heard InDesign can handle
> > Unicode; but I'm not
> > sure about RTL.
>
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