Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Patrick Durusau <pdurusau AT emory.edu>]

Matthew,

M & E Anstey wrote:
> 
> Dear Trudy et al,
> 
<snip>
> 
> The best thing about open type fonts, is that anyone is free to make their
> own. TO do this, and it is not simple, you need to subscribe to the VOLT
> community with miscrosoft, and downloand their software. If you do this, and
> get Guttman Vilna (you will have to work out a legal way to do this!), and
> load it in, you will see how open type fonts work. They are really neat.
> 
> I have the complete OT in unicode, without accents, and it displays
> perfectly in Guttman Vilna in HTML in IE 5 and above. IE 5.5 and above
> (maybe earlier IE as well) handles the font directions beautifuilly as well.
> So you can enter in logical order the Hebrew, followed by and English word,
> followed by Hebrew ,etc, and it will reverse the order of the Hebrew but not
> the English. The whole sentence will also wrap right-to-left, etc, etc.
> 

Does the Guttman Vilna + Uniscribe properly display an accented text?

Thanks!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau AT emory.edu