Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

To All:

It looks as if I have to eat humble pie. It may not be the SBL font after 
all, but Mr. Kimball’s XML coding.

First of all, for you Macintosh owners, there is an update for OS X.4 to 
X.4.1. Free download.

The following are what I found while using the Safari browser:

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/c/ct/c0.htm has all sorts of lines, dots and 
squiggles that I don’t recognize. Presumably those are the cantillation marks.

http://verboomen.starline-inc.de/d11.php2xml?sfr=1&prq=1 is an XML site which 
also demands the SBL font, yet it displays normally on Safari, including all 
the points. Safari interprets at least some XML code correctly. Its unicode 
support is superior to Camino. Though the site demands the SBL font, it 
rendered well in Safari with Macintosh Hebrew fonts.

http://kodesh.snunit.k12.il/i/t/t0.htm now demands a plug-in, which it says 
that Safari lacks, but it still displays the vowel points.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/tan/index.htm has about the simplest html 
coding of all the sites, displays the text with all points.

Now to the trouble sites:

http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/ipb-e/tanach/readme.html demanded a 
special font to be downloaded, but when I did so, the font resource built 
into Mac OS claimed the font is faulty, therefore refused to install it. I 
was unable to read this site. The faulty font is a Mosaic font.

http://www.cvkimball.com/Tanach/Tanach.xml where the Safari browser 
interprets the XML as redefining the font information, with the result that 
the text is unreadable in Safari. (I don’t know XML, but the section from 
which I exerpted a short snippet, I interpreted as remapping font 
information.) Seeing as Safari interpreted both the SBL font information and 
the XML coding correctly above, I suspect that it is the XML that is causing 
the problem here.

Hopefully, this will put this discussion to bed. And Peter, please forgive my 
impugning the SBL font while working from incomplete information.

Karl W. Randolph.



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