Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 23/07/2004 09:12, Pere Casanellas wrote:

> At 19:22 22/07/2004 +0100, Naomi Vandici wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I wonder which is the font used in BHS4 for the (main)
> > text and whether there is a digitized version of it.
> > Can anybody help? (Sorry it doesn't have anything to
> > do with Biblical Hebrew.)
> >
> > Shalom!
> > Naomi Vandici
>
>
> It is a special font created to print this edition (see the Foreword 
> of BHS, p. XI, section 1). I do not think there is an exact digited 
> version of it. Linguist's Software (http://www.linguistsoftware.com/) 
> has very good Hebrew fonts and its Hebraica II font has been licensed 
> to produce the Biblia Hebraica Quinta. You can look also at the new 
> font of the Society of Biblical Literature 
> (http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/default.aspx) and at the different 
> fonts listed on my web pages (page 23), see below.
Ezra SIL, a free download from 
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=EzraSIL_Home, 
is "fashioned after the square letter forms of the typography of the 
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS)" although not intended as an exact 
copy.


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