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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "Christopher V. Kimball" <kimball AT ntplx.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Unicode/XML transcription of the MC electronic BHS Tanach
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:01:39 -0800

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
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/





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