Posted by:
Peter Kirk On 21/04/2004 03:15, RClements wrote:
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> Hi, Folks!
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> I want to change over pre-2004 bibliographic entries from SP
> Tiberian to SBL Hebrew. Our computers are Windows XP. In Word, SBL
> hebrew shows up in the complex fonts list, while SP Tiberian show
> up only in the "latin" fonts list (I assume this is because it
> works from an English language keyboard layout). I cannot find an
> easy way to substitute one font for the other (either by search
> and replace or by highlighting and changing--they simply refuse to
> change). Am I doomed to retype the whole list (it is long!), or is
> there any sort of shortcut that anyone can think of?
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> Thanks, Ruth
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Things are not quite so bad that retyping is absolutely necessary. SIL
has provided, with the Ezra SIL font package, tools enabling conversion
of texts in the old SIL Ezra pre-Unicode (and visual order) to Unicode
(which should be compatible with SBL Hebrew as well as Ezra SIL). The
old SIL Ezra encoding is different in detail from that of SP Tiberian,
but not in principle. So it should be fairly easy to convert SP Tiberian
into SIL Ezra and thence into Unicode.
But if your document is not very long, retyping may be easier.
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Peter Kirk
peter@qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/
