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Posted by: Andy_Steinmann1
         

I was wondering whether there is any plan to produce SBL Paleo-Hebrew fonts. I understand that Unicode has a block reserved for Paleo-Hebrew, and it would be nice to have a font for teaching epigraphic Hebrew. It would also be nice to have a set of Paleo-Hebrew characters in the regular Hebrew Unicode block for teaching purposes. Then one could simply switch fonts to convert back and forth (especially if the Paleo-Hebrew font "removed" the pointing). This would allow quick switching in the classroom as an aid to teaching students to read the Paleo-Hebrew font.

 

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Posted by: GfSomsel
         

If the paleo-Hebrew font were in its own separate block in unicode, then it would not be possible to switch back and forth from the standard sqare script to paleo-Hebrew.  It would need to be a separate font using the standard coding.
 

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From: Andy_Steinmann1 I was wondering whether there is any plan to produce SBL Paleo-Hebrew fonts. I understand that Unicode has a block reserved for Paleo-Hebrew, and it would be nice to have a font for teaching epigraphic Hebrew. It would also be nice to have a set of Paleo-Hebrew characters in the regular Hebrew Unicode block for teaching purposes. Then one could simply switch fonts to convert back and forth (especially if the Paleo-Hebrew font "removed" the pointing). This would allow quick switching in the classroom as an aid to teaching students to read the Paleo-Hebrew font.   Thanks for all your work on the SBL fonts. They are a joy to use.   Andrew Steinmann

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Posted by: John Hudson
         
There are no definite plans for an SBL Palaeo-Hebrew font, but it is on the list of likely future development items. Such a font would probably double-encode the glyphs using the Unicode regular Hebrew and also the 'Phoenician' codepoints, giving users a choice of how to encode palaeo-Hebrew text.
         

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Posted by: John Hudson
         
George, a single font could easily support both the Hebrew and Phoenican Unicode blocks for the same palaeo-Hebrew glyphs. Then the issue becomes not the encoding of the font but the encoding of the text: one might have identical looking text encoded in using two different sets of characters, both of them arguably legitimate depending on whether one is looking at this form of writing as ancient Hebrew or as ancient Canaanite.

The encoding of the Unicode Phoenician block became highly controversial. Some people thought it would be useful to be able to distinguish the encoding of early semitic writing from Hebrew at the plain text level; other people argued that although the letter forms differ the Hebrew square script was in fact the same writing system as the earlier form, and should be encoded the same way. Now we have the two Unicode blocks, and choices to make about how to use them. My concern now is that the encoding of semitic writing systems might be further fragmented, since 'Phoenician' is a narrow identity to apply to what I think should be a single early semitic script encoding.
         

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Posted by: dapenguin503
         
Try the font Evyoni Hebrew encoded Paleo (evyohep.ttf) i do believe it removes the vowels.

There are two packeges on the web which also include some 8 bit versions.
http://ebionite.tripod.com/fonts.htm

And which is the unicode font only.
http://hebrew.zebby.org/evyohep.html

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Posted by: GfSomsel
         

No, it doesn't remove the vowels.  It can look a bit strange having the pointing with the paleo-hebrew consonants.  On cantillated text you also end up with rectangles where the accents should be.  It works fine with the Targums since they are unpointed and don't have cantillation.

 

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How about a Herodian font?

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