Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>]

Thank you for this interesting information. I am copying it to some SIL
experts in such matters. They may even be able to figure out your strange
problem with Word 2000. I had already heard that Bible Windows included
cantillation.

How can I get hold of the public domain SHebrew font? Is it on a website? Or
perhaps you could e-mail me a copy.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Melvin Ely and Naama Zahavi-Ely [mailto:nxzaha AT wm.edu]
Sent: 17 November 2000 07:59
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Hebrew font with vowel points and cantillation marks


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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