Kirk,Thank you, Jason. Part of your problem could be solved by defining and using a non-standard keyboard package, e.g. the one available (for the PC) with the SIL Hebrew Unicode Font System (www.sil.org) plus Keyman (www.tavultesoft.com). But such a solution would be broken if the proposal goes ahaead to distinguish modern and biblical Hebrew.
I kinda wanted to avoid this topic b/c of its
complexity. I use Unicode (via Charsets) in writing my
webpages since I deal with Hebrew. I see the
difficulty involved in using the present Israeli fonts
because I have to use ALT functions to insert vowels.
It's quite problematic (yet, do-able), but I can see
value in upgrading the whole of the system so that it
is more functional. HOWEVER, should that upgrade
include a separation from modern Israeli typesetting
in Unicode? I would venture that it should NOT. And my
reasoning behind it is like others on the list...
continuity. I already have four keyboards installed on
my system (EN GR AR HE), so to use yet another to
distinguish between Israeli and Biblical Hebrew is a
little out-of-the-way and sordid, if you ask me. I
should hate to have to DOUBLE code my pages (or make
duplicate pages... or some other absurd solution) so
that I can use both Israeli and Biblical Hebrew on my
site!!
Thanks for the info,
Jason Hare
jason AT jhronline.com
http://www.jhronline.com
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