<div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/23 Carsten Ziegert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carsten_ziegert@sil.org">carsten_ziegert@sil.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
I am facing a problems with hebrew vowels while trying three different<br>
fonts (see example file):<br>
<br>
With SBL Hebrew and Ezra SIL, the vowels are too much on the left under<br>
the consonants.<br>
Cardo seems ok, except for shureq (leftmost letter of the third and<br>
fourth word from the left). The point is on the right hand side of the<br>
Waw consonant instead of on the left.<br>
<br>
System specs: Ubuntu Karmic, fontspec 2010/08/01 v2.0c,<br>
XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch2 (Web2C 7.5.6)<br>
<br>
What can I do to achieve the correct vowel adjustment? Does anyone have<br>
experiences with fonts for Biblical Hebrew?<br></blockquote><div><br>Doing cantillated Hebrew is my day job. And I use XeLaTeX as my preferred system for academic publishing.<br><br>I modified your minimal example to contrast the two methods. Note the differences in the prologue. SBL Hebrew comes out right, SIL Ezra does not (no disparagement of SIL Ezra!).<br>
<br>\documentclass{scrbook}<br>\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode,bidi}<br>\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}<br>\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{TeX Gyre Schola}<br>%Set up for Biblical Hebrew<br>\TeXXeTstate=1<br>
\newfontfamily{\sbl}[Script=Hebrew]{SBL Hebrew}<br><br><br>\begin{document}<br>%<br>\section*{SBL Hebrew}<br>\RL{\sbl{הָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ}}<br>\section*{Ezra SIL}<br>\newcommand{\heb}[1]{\TeXXeTstate=1{\fontspec{Ezra SIL}\beginR{#1}\endR}}<br>
\heb{וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ}<br>\end{document}<br><br>Others here can no doubt explain the technical reasons why the first example works and the second does not.<br> </div></div>-- <br>Blessings,<br><br>Kirk<br>
--<br>Kirk E. Lowery, PhD<br>President & Senior Research Fellow<br>The J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research<br><a href="http://www.GrovesCenter.org/blogs/kirk">http://www.GrovesCenter.org/blogs/kirk</a><br>
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