Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Dear Peter,Maurice, etc.
I am still having font problems.
It turns out I did have SPTiberian already.
But anyway, I replaced it with the version from Biblica
and was able to see Hebrew on my screen. However
when I tried to print out the article, my computer froze.
I have to delete the font in order to get outlook to run.
I then downloaded it from the AAR site (I couldn't from the SBL
site for some reason).
When I look at the font there are little squares here and
there, where I think letters should be. Also there is a
problem with the aleph (I think). I tried to print out the
font's test page, and it froze just before printing the aleph
(I think).
Any suggestions? Is the font supposed to have little squares in it?
I'm going to all this trouble just to print out an article that
purposely
ignores my excursus in Milgrom (Grrr).
Liz


> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Peter Kirk
> Sent: Fri, May 02, 2003 6:07 PM
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] " The Jubilee ": Oops!
>
>
> 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
>
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