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Aaron0327 Dear John,
I'm not used to these internet groups, so I'm not sure that I sent what I wrote below to the right recipients. So, I'm sending it again to you. Compliments on your work. Even with the glitches, it's far better than anything else that I've worked with. Keep up the good work.
Aaron
Dear Group,
I have just downloaded the new SBL Hebrew font and am very excited. Finally, a font that puts the nikkud in the right places (allows holem without waw, raised shewa and qamats with final kaf) and allows te'amim as well (by the way, I'm assuming on the te'amim that the meteg is supposed to double as silluq?). And it's a nice-looking font, as well. Kol ha-kavod to the designers! I have a number of friends who will be very happy for this long-awaited advance!
I have found one rather major glitch. Throughout most of the Bible the toponymn "Yerushalaim" is written without a yod (between the final lamed and mem), which means, in a sense, that the lamed gets two vowels, one after the other, either patach and hiriq or, in pause, qamats and hiriq. Currently, when you type the word without the yod, the hiriq appears all by itself below a dotted circle. How can this problem be solved? I should note that the quality Word and Dagesh fonts (David, Narkissim, etc.) already allowed the hiriq to be the "second vowel" in cases like this without putting an entire space between the lamed and mem.
On a much less important note, my keyboard does not function according to the PDF instruction booklet provided with the download. Pressing SHIFT does not allow me to input nikkud and te'amim. The nikkud still functions as it does on a normal Israeli keyboard, while the te'amim I have to input as symbols (this is not a terrible thing, as it is possible to define how to do this myself). Have I done something wrong in the installation?
Thanks,
Aaron
