Posted by:
Aaron0327 Dear John, Thank you for your quick
response.
I use Windows XP and the Hebrew version of Word XP
(from Office XP Student Edition).
In the meantime I was able to 'solve' both
issues. As for the second (keyboard) issue: after turning off and
restarting my computer the keys worked more or less as the PDF manual
said. The only difference I noticed is that the number keys, which used to
give the Hebrew nikkud when both CAPS LOCK and SHIFT were depressed,
now do so with only CAPS LOCK depressed (which is a nice feature, though I
didn't see it mentioned in the manual).
Regarding the other issue, about Yerushalaim.
I noticed on page 9 of the PDF manual that there's a character called "zero
width joiner". I simply insert that before the hiriq and it looks
great. I also found a similar issue with the tetragrammaton when the
waw is pointed with two vowels (either holem and
hirik for elohim or holem and qamats for
adonai).
I'm not sure why the combination wasn't recognized
to begin with. What I have been trying to produce is a ready-to-use BH
text with nikkud for personal use (Now I'm just waiting for someone to
get around to putting in the te'amim!). Such a text, in the David
Font, can be downloaded from a site called the Karaite Korner. When I
changed that text from David to the new SBL Hebrew font, the promblem arose
unexpectedly. The fix I found, however, seems to work.
Again, I am VERY pleased with this new font.
It seems to contain almost everything one needs. And the fact that it is
still being developed and worked on is also a plus.
Thanks again for the quick response,
Keep up the good work,
Shabbat Shalom from Yerushalayim.
Aaron
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 3:52
AM
Subject: Re: the hiriq in the word
Yerushalaim
the hiriq
in the word Yerushalaim
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From: John Hudson |
What application and operating system versions are you
using? The dotted circle is inserted at the character level by
the Uniscribe engine, over which I have no control, when it
believes a mark sequence to be invalid, but the most recent
version of Uniscribe, which ships with Office 2003, accepts
the sequence as
valid. This sequence does render correctly (with the hiriq
tucked under the right side of the final mem, following the
typographic convention of the Biblia Hebraica
Stuttgartensia) in Office 2003 and will work more widely in
the next version of Windows:
On the keyboard issue, it sounds as you have not selected
the correct keyboard from the MS language bar. If you have two
Hebrew keyboards installed, you should be able to select either
one, but by default the first, probably the Israeli keyboard,
will be selected. You should have a small square icon on your
taskbar with a two letter language identifier (HE for Hebrew).
For any language for which you have more than one keyboard
driver installed, you should see a small keyboard icon beside
the language identifier. If you click on this keyboard icon, you
should be able to select from multiple keyboards. Note that
there is a display bug that sometimes obscures the keyboard
icon; you can force it to display correctly by clicking on the
language identifier and selecting 'Show the Language bar'. This
will restore the full language bar to your screen and you can
select the keyboard icon here or minimise the language bar and
this refresh the display. If you can't get the little keyboard
item to display even with the language bar open, that means you
only have one keyboard installed for that language, and need to
go back a step in your installation.
Hope this helps. Glad you like the
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