[sword-devel] Proper sorting of pointed Hebrew

[Aaron Christianson]

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, though I will occasionally
have issues with how certain vowels and accents look together.

It is quite similar to the SBL Hebrew font, except that it has a
better license (modified GPLv2 which permits embedding the font in
commercial documents), and appears to have more uniform results across
various document creation platforms. In my experience, it generally
renders better than Ezra SIL, though their OFL is definitely my
favourite font license!

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:07 PM, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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