Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_R_Kirk AT hotmail.com>]

The major advantage of the SIL fonts is that they follow the
international Unicode standard for representation of biblical Hebrew. So
they can be used to display text from the Internet etc and for preparing
text used by others, and for multilingual text. By contrast, fonts like
Hebraica can be used only with text specially prepared for that font and
by people who have that font.

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew.Wergeland AT mf.no [mailto:Andrew.Wergeland AT mf.no]
> Sent: 27 September 2002 18:36
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Cc: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: Fonts.
> 
> Good Morning,
> 
> I still don't get it.  What's the advantage of using this font over,
say,
> HebraicaII?  Is it just that this one is free?
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
> At 09:25 27.09.02 +0100, you wrote:
> >Good Morning All! Boqer Tov!
> >
> >On the subject of SIL fonts, the SIL Ezra font is
> >superb. It's the first full font, with all the vowels
> >and points etc., that I've used.
> >For those of you like me that want to use it in Quark
> >XPress, it works fine. Like Word however, you do have
> >to turn of the 'smart' quotes in the preferences (this
> >one tied me up for ages as I couldn't find the aleph!
> >Thanks for the answer Peter).
> >Anyway just thought I'd mention it, well done SIL!
> >
> >Thanks and Shabbat Shalom.
> >Ian.
> >
> >
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> >Ian Goldsmith.
> >England.
> >
> >Dibrah Torah kilshone bnei-adam
> >'The Torah spoke in the language of ordinary men.'
> >Berakot 31b
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