Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Steve Brailsford <Steve.Brailsford AT NSMG.Seagatesoftware.com>]

Has anyone created a set of macros for Exchange, or Word that will convert
the selected text
and convert it to the Hebrew characters as defined below?
I would think the hebsil cct conversion program might be used, as long as
people wrote 
according to that table below.

Steve Brailsford
Seagate Software
steve.brailsford AT seagatesoftware.com
(407) 531-7543


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Rocine [mailto:596547 AT ican.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 4:39 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: b-hebrew charter
> 
> 
> TRANSCRIPTION SCHEME
> --------------------------------------------
> Officially, the B-Hebrew forum transcribes Hebrew in our 
> posts using the
> Michigan-Claremont-Westminster scheme(MCW) as shown below.  
> In practice,
> however, the adherence of the list members to the MCW is 
> rather relaxed, so
> we also assume that members have Hebrew Bibles handy for 
> reference.  When
> an alphabetic sequence is particularly critical to a 
> discussion, members
> may want to write out the sequence in words, e.g., "The 
> Hebrew spelling of
> _Adam_ is aleph-qamets-dalet-qamets-mem."
> 
> Consonants          Vowels
> ----------                  ------
> Aleph    ) or '          Patah         A
> Beth     B              Qamets        F
> Gimel    G             Segol         E
> Daleth   D              Tsere         "
> Heh      H               Hireq         I
> Waw      W            Holem         O
> Zayin    Z               Qamets Chatuf F
> Cheth    X              Qibbuts       U
> Teth     +               Shureq        W.
> Yod      Y              Shewa        :
> Kaph     K             Hatef Patah  :A
> Lamedh   L            Hatef Segol  :E
> Mem      M            Hatef Qamets :F
> Nun      N
> Samek    S
> Pe       P             Miscellaneous
> Ayin     ( or `       -------------------------
> Tsade    C             Ketiv        *
> Qoph     Q             Qere         **
> Resh     R             Dagesh       .
> Sin      &               Meqqeph       -
> Shin     $
> Tav      T
> 
>