Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ashley Crane" <acrane AT harvestwest.wa.edu.au>]

Hi Peter

Bible Works for Windows has some of the cantillation but not all. But it is
directly based on BHS and L.

Ashley


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 12:15 PM
Subject: RE: Hebrew font with vowel points and cantillation marks


> 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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