Preliminary alternative to SBL BibLit?

[loewisch]

Dear all,
I am looking for a way to correctly display transliterate Hebrew in Word (Win). Is there an alternative font one can use until SBL BibLit is ready or an other way to display the transliteration?

Thank you Ingeborg

[jdernest]

You could try Arial Unicode MS or Code2000 (search the Internet for these fonts, which include most or all of the Unicode characters).  Perhaps someone will post to the forum some suggestions for better fonts that include the needed characters (mostly from the Latin Extended ranges) but not all the alphabets you don’t need.

[tiro_hudson]

Which versions of Windows and Word are you using? The Microsoft core fonts (e.g. Times New Roman) have been updated to include support for extended Latin including, I believe, all the characters needed for Hebrew transliteration.

Some newer Office fonts (Calibri, Cambria and Consolas) have just been extended in the same way, but these will not be available until the next versions of Windows and Office ship.

[DjR]

My own suggestion would be the Charis SIL font. It comes in the four typical styles (regular, bold, italic, bold italic) and has all the glyphs needed for transliteration. It is even attractive (enough -- in a chunky sort of way)! (IMO)

There is also Gentium, but (a) its right- and left-half-ring for "alef" and "ayin" are a bit nasty (I think there is a plan to replace them in upcoming releases), and (b) it only has regular and italics (no bolds). (The Gentium Basic family makes good on the bolds, but surprisingly lacks the right- and left-half-ring!)

The DejaVu font family will, I think, also give you all required glyphs, and with many more style options.

Hope that helps! (A little late, I know, but I've just joined the forum!)

David.

[DjR]

Some newer Office fonts (Calibri, Cambria and Consolas) have just been extended in the same way...

Now if only Constantia had a full set of characters which made it suitable for transliteration purposes, then I would be happy!



Can one live in hope...?

David

[tiro_hudson]

We recently extended the Microsoft Cambria typeface to cover a much greater range of characters and also support dynamic positioning for combining marks. This has also been done for the Calibri (sans serif) and Consolas (monospaced) fonts. These updates will ship with future versions of Windows and Office.

I'm certainly hopeful that Microsoft will want to make the same extensions to Constantia, and the other CT collection fonts.

[DjR]

I'm certainly hopeful that Microsoft will want to make the same extensions to Constantia, and the other CT collection fonts.

I'll live in hope then! Thanks.

Btw -- if it isn't too much of a thread hijack -- I read on the Tiro site that there is a "‘Now read this’ booklet documenting [the Constantia] project". I enjoyed reading the Sylfaen booklet; is the Constantia one available anywhere?

[tiro_hudson]

Contact me via email, David.  tiro[at]tiro[dot]com

[Adam Twardoch (FontLab)]

Out of free fonts, EB Garamond and Junicode can be seen as reasonable companions/alternatives to SBL Hebrew and possibly SBL Greek:
http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/
http://junicode.sourceforge.net/

Another well-crafted font which could work well is Andron:
http://www.signographie.de/cms/front_content.php?idart=69&changelang=2
of which a limited subset is available free of charge from:
http://www.mufi.info/fonts/#Andron

Typographically speaking, Adobe Text Pro and, to some extent, Minion Pro seem the best companions for SBL Hebrew and SBL Greek.

Looking forward to SBL BibLit!

Best,
Adam

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