Jumpy Fonts

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Posted by: RClements
         
Hi folks!

I am editing a paper (it did not originate on my machine, and I don't
know what version of Word it originally was) in which the SBL Hebrew
keeps changing into the default "Times New Roman" Hebrew font. Does
anyone have any idea why this would happen, and what I can do to
stabilize the font?

NB: I have been using SBLHebrew in a number of different contexts now,
and this is the first time this problem has come up.

Thanks in advance!

Ruth Clements
Orion Center


         

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Posted by: twuandy
         
Shalom, Ruth,
That happened to me when I used the font in Word 2002 in XP on my landlord's
machshevet.  When I changed to XP in Word 2003 it disappeared.  But my
landlord's machine is a mess, so maybe there is another explanation.
ááøëä,
Andrew

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Posted by: John Hudson
         
This is a bug in Word 2002. I'm not sure whether the bug is internal to the Word code or is in the version of the RichEdit text handler used by that version of Office. It is fixed in Office 2003, as Andrew notes.
         

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Posted by: RClements
         
Thanks everyone! If it comes up again--Ken Penner had a brilliantly simple idea for fixing the problem: edit the styles in the offending document (Normal and any other major ones) to set the complex font to SBL Hebrew. So far, that seems to have taken care of the issue, even for the earlier-than-2003 version of Word used in the paper.

Best,

Ruth Clements


         

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