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  • From: "Melvin Ely and Naama Zahavi-Ely" <nxzaha AT wm.edu>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Hebrew font with vowel points and cantillation marks
  • Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 07:58:54 -0500


I use the RHebrew font from Silver Mountain Software, together with their
Bible software (Bible Windows). I can cut and paste from it into Word (I
used Word 97 and am now using Word/Office 2000). I am using Windows 98
(standard English version). It works fine, both on my computer and on our
computer lab at the university (College of William and Mary).

The trick is -- when I try to add in Office support for Hebrew (which is
"not supported by the system") in the Microsoft Office Language Setting, it
throws the font off -- the nikud shows up in the wrong place. When I delete
the (partial) support for Hebrew in Office, and just treat the characters as
English, they work perfectly (and look beautiful). For me, this font is
indispensable -- I teach my students to use cantillation marks to break the
text down into (much) smaller units, and this has greatly decreased the
number of completely-garbled translations that I get.

A similar but less good-looking font by Silver Mountain is public domain:
SHebrew. It also has both vowel marks and cantillation marks.

Best wishes,

Naama Zahavi-Ely







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