Babylonian Niqqud

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Posted by: Djr388
         
Hello Friends,

First of all, my thanks to John Hudson for his fine work on the font.  I use it most happily.

My apologies if this is an inappropriate forum for this question (and I'd appreciate pointers to a better one if so), but it seems like there's a wealth of knowledge here about fonts.

I'm faced with a somewhat pressing (in terms of time) need for a font which can handle babylonian vocalization of Hebrew/Aramaic.  I understand that this has not yet been added to unicode, but since my needs are fairly simple, I'd be quite satisfied with a font encoded as regular unicode, but where a, e.g. qametz, looked like the Babylonian equivalent.  I could later update my files when/if the system is added to Unicode.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Has anyone created a preliminary font of some kind that they have sitting in their files somewhere?  On another note, does anyone know if progress is being made on the unicode front (and where I might find more information)?

Thanks for your thoughts on the matter.

Best Regards,
David Roth


         

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Posted by: Ken Penner
         

The
only progress I've seen on the Unicode front for Babylonian pointing is at www.lashonkodesh.org particularly http://www.lashonkodesh.org/bavelpro.pdf

This
proposal was rejected for being incomplete, and I have heard of no movement on
it since then.

Ken

Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages), M.A. (Qumran Poetry)
Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster
University
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From: Djr388 Hello Friends, First of all,                 my thanks to John Hudson for his fine work on the font. I use it                 most happily. My apologies if this is an inappropriate                 forum for this question (and I'd appreciate pointers to a better                 one if so), but it seems like there's a wealth of knowledge here                 about fonts. I'm faced with a somewhat pressing (in terms                 of time) need for a font which can handle babylonian                 vocalization of Hebrew/Aramaic. I understand that this has not                 yet been added to unicode, but since my needs are fairly simple,                 I'd be quite satisfied with a font encoded as regular unicode,                 but where a, e.g. qametz, looked like the Babylonian equivalent.                 I could later update my files when/if the system is added to                 Unicode. Does anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone                 created a preliminary font of some kind that they have sitting                 in their files somewhere? On another note, does anyone know if                 progress is being made on the unicode front (and where I might                 find more information)? Thanks for your thoughts on the                 matter. Best Regards, David           Roth

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