Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Martin Shields <enkidu AT bigpond.net.au>]

Jon,

AFAIK, Macs use Apple's own typography which means that *most* non- 
Apple fonts won't work well (with one caveat, see below). The fonts  
that should look reasonable in Apple's own apps are Arial Hebrew,  
Cardo, Lucida Grande, New Peninim MT, and Raanana. At least some of  
these fonts may be installed on your system by default.

The caveat: if you use the word processor Mellel (http:// 
www.mellel.com/) it has support for OpenType fonts and will work with  
Ezra SIL SR and some of the other fonts you may prefer. You can try  
before you buy.

Hope that helps,

Martin Shields,
Sydney, Australia.

On 02/11/2007, at 2:58 AM, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:

> I'm trying to type some decent-looking Unicode Hebrew on Mac OS X, but
> I'm running into some problems.  The default font is ugly, especially
> when more than one pointing needs to be added to a letter.  I've tried
> fonts like Ezra SIL, but all of the pointings on that font show up
> left-aligned on the letter.  I don't know if that's a font problem, a
> user problem, or an Mac OS X problem.
>
> Anyway, you can see a font test here to see what I'm looking at:
>
> http://dev.newmedio.com/johnnyb/hebrew.jpg
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> jon
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