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[b-hebrew] REVISED: Displaying text from the Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex on Mac OS X systems

From: Christopher Kimball <transcriber AT tanach.us>
To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>, John Hudson <john AT tiro.ca>, Samuel Arnet <samuel.arnet AT theol.unibe.ch>
Subject: [b-hebrew] REVISED: Displaying text from the Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex on Mac OS X systems
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:34:23 -0400

On Mac OS X systems the built-in and free "TextEdit" editor Version 1.5 (244) can display Hebrew text from the Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex at

http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml .

IF TextEdit's settings are SET CORRECTLY.

In TextEdit,

1. Set the font to SBL Hebrew. "Format" -> "Font" -> "Show Fonts" -> "SBL Hebrew". The keyboard short cut
"Apple T" will also bring up the font window. This is a good place to set the font size.

2. Set the text direction to Right to Left. "Format" -> "Text" -> "Writing Direction" -> "Right to Left".

Then copy and paste the text from the Firefox browser into TextEdit. If you've pasted the text before making the settings, select all of the pasted text with "Edit" -> "Select All" or the "Apple A" shortcut, then do the settings.

Chris Kimball
West Redding, CT USA

[b-hebrew] REVISED: Displaying text from the Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex on Mac OS X systems, Christopher Kimball, 09/19/2008