I'm not at HU anymore. I did my MA there, but I'm back in Wisconsin
now (brr). I have tried both of the fonts you mention. My preferred
font for Hebrew is Taamey Frank from the Culmus project
http://culmus.sourceforge.net/taamim/index.html, and it seems to
render the holems and the vavs quite well,
A lot depends on the Unicode font chosen to display pointed Hebrew.
Even Ezra SIL and SBL Hebrew have some issues for a few codepoint
combinations.
But at the HU of J you would have access to the best Hebrew fonts available.
Best regards,
David
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Oh! I had recalled that there were some problems at times with the way vavs and
holems were display next to each other because of the discrepancy between how
holem vav is represented in Unicode vs betacode (the format used in the initial
creation of the Michigan-Claremont text) but looking back
Aaron wrote,
"However, if Babel Pad has a way to apply the normalization permanently to
Hebrew, and if it is better than the canonical Unicode composition, that
might be useful for pre-formatting sword modules before import. "
I can confirm that BabelPad can apply normalization permanently.
The
Further information:
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html
BabelPad supports sorting of pointed Hebrew using either the Unicode
Collation Algorithm (UCA) or the CLDR customization of the UCA, which do
take into account all marks for Hebrew letters.
I have requested a test file so
Hey David,
It depends on how it's implemented on how useful it is. Most text editors use
normalization for display, but the characters are still stored as they were
input, so it's really only useful for printing or exporting to a format like
PDF. However, if Babel Pad has a way to apply the nor
Dear Aaron,
Though this is only indrectly related to sorting pointed Hebrew words, I
thought you may like to know.
BabelPad has a feature to apply a custom Unicode Normalization to pointed
Hebrew text, based on the recommendations in the SBL Hebrew Font Users
Manual.
Download from http://www.bab
Thanks Aaron.
David
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In a previous thread (something about sorting various languages), I
mentioned that there is no proper way to sort vocalized Hebrew using
either Unicode points or local-based collation strings. This is
because each vowel and accent is its own code point, but they are not
considered to be "letters",
