Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>]

Recent versions of Internet Explorer, the ones which have proper Hebrew
support built into them, tend not to like it when people try to undermine
all their hard work and continue to use old kludges like SPTiberian. Could
that be the problem? Solution: use the built-in Hebrew support like the rest
of the world.

Actually this is probably not the problem with this particular article. The
Hebrew words appear more or less correctly in IE6, unpointed apart from shin
dots which is probably what was intended. It is the pointing in the kludges
which causes problems.

Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-hebrew-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Maurice A. O'Sullivan
> Sent: 02 May 2003 22:49
> To: Lisbeth S. Fried
> Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] " The Jubilee ": Oops!
> 
> At 21:37 02/05/2003, you wrote:
> 
> >I don't know if a Hebrew font is used in the article,
> >but if so that might be the problem. The font Biblica uses
> >is SPTiberii, and I saw that not all the letters were there in my
> >version,
> >and there was garbage in places.
> 
> Liz:
> 
> AFAICG, you are confusing two things: how the document appears in your
> browser, and how it prints out. Just to read it, your browser needs to be
> configured to read the fonts which are embedded in the on-line document,
> but to print it out you need the font installed in your fonts folder on
> your hard disk ( pardon me, but all this is Windows talk -- I can't help
> if
> you're using a Mac )
> 
> The Hebrew font used in this article is SPTiberian, and it displays in my
> browser, and prints out fine both from my browser ( Netscape 7.02 ) and
> imported as a .HTML file into Word 2002
> 
> >I tried to download the font again, and still got garbage in those slots.
> >Any suggestions?
> 
> To allow your browser display the Hebrew font you must have it configured
> to allow the use of embedded fonts. In Netscape, I must check the box
> labelled  " Allow documents use other fonts " i.e display embedded fonts.
> Whichever browser you're using, you should find something analogous in the
> "Fonts" section of your settings.
> 
> 
> >However, I didn't notice Hebrew in the article when I scrolled through
it,
> >so I don't know if that's the problem.
> 
> This tells me that your browser is not configured properly ( or else of
> elderly vintage ! )
> 
> I trust this is of some help.
> 
> BTW, the SPTiberian font is available from the SBL web-site: go to
> ftp://ftp.sbl-site2.org/fonts/
> and click on Windows or Mac as required.  Be sure to d/l the .readme file
> as well as the actual font file.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Maurice
> 
> 
> Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
> mauros AT iol.ie