Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 20/02/2004 11:54, Christopher V. Kimball wrote:

> A transcription of the Michigan-Claremont electronic text of the BHS 
> Tanach (from the Oxford Text Archive) to XML with Unicode characters 
> is now available at:
>
> http://users.ntplx.net/~kimball/Tanach/Tanach.xml
>
> It's viewable by any modern browser, i.e. Netscape 7.1, Mozilla 1.6, 
> Mozilla FireFox 0.8, or Internet Explorer 6.0.
>
> A choice of SBL Hebrew or Ezra SIL fonts is available. Font sizes from 
> 100% to 400% of normal are selectable. The texts are in XML format 
> with XMLSchema validation. They may be downloaded for off-line viewing 
> or for machine processing through a ZIP file,
>
> http://users.ntplx.net/~kimball/Tanach/Tanach.zip,
>
> of less than 2 Megabytes. It's free and can be distributed freely for 
> any non-commercial purpose.
>
> Suggestions and corrections are encouraged.
>
> Chris Kimball
This site looks very nice, Chris. Well done! It is sad that you are 
having to work with such an old and corrupt base text, when Westminster 
TS has a much better text which they could let you have.

Most things come out very well with Mozilla 1.6 and the latest 
Uniscribe, with SBL Hebrew and Ezra SIL. One comment is that the note 
numbers are sometimes too close to the text so that they overlap. Also 
prepositive accents in the Psalms sometimes overlap into the margin.

But I have noticed one significant problem, that you don't get a final 
form letter before a maqaf, e.g. in Exodus 20:7,10. And you could 
convert the inverted nuns (in Ps 107) to the proper code rather than 
display a final nun with a note.

But overall you seem to have done an excellent job. Thank you.

--
Peter Kirk
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