Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

My copy of SPTiberian is also full of squares (as I find from Character Map)
but that shouldn't be the problem. What OS and browser are you using? I have
little experience outside Windows and IE, although I wish I didn't have to
rely on them

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 Lisbeth S. Fried
> Sent: 03 May 2003 15:22
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [b-hebrew] font problem
> 
> 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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