Biblical Hebrew Forum

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In a message dated 11/6/2000 7:16:48 AM Central Standard Time, 
lizfried AT umich.edu writes:


> Is there a copy of the BHS on the web I can download sections from
> and paste into a word document?


I'd be interested to see responses to this.  I'm not sure if there are other, 
more direct sites for this, but I assume that for strictly personal use many 
use basic ASCII text from sites such as 
gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:3333/11/Religious/Biblical/.

This may take a bit of old-fashioned manual editing.  First, depending on 
operating system, you probably will need to convert upper case text to lower 
case.  Next, make sure the letters are converted to right-to-left 
arrangement.  Then, if you wish to view the text in Hebrew script, you can 
set the font format using a font of the standard Michigan-Claremont format, 
such as SPTiberian.ttf in a Windows setting.  Finally, you may need to check 
for minor differences in fonts (i.e., some use $ for shin, while others use 
#).

There are other sites where you can also access the BHS for personal reading 
copied from text/html format to WordPerfect or Word if you have the 
corresponding font(s) in your fonts directory.  I'm interested in finding out 
what others have to say on more time-efficient methods (switching case, 
right-to-left, etc.).

Thank you all,


Gerald Zimmerman,
Carbondale, IL  62901
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