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[BH.]

v1.62 was uploaded today.  The change in 1.62 is that I made visible a "Language" switch between English and Spanish tooltips under the Scripture Menu.  Thanks to Carlos for prompting and testing this in T4.  He helped with the Spanish tooltips in T3 originally.  And while I have had the basic code in place, I had not fully enabled it.  Also, some "issues" still remained, such as getting capitalization working correctly.  I believe that is working now and with Carlos' help, I put the language switch into T4. 

 

Note also that with v1.60, TOPX and DCTX word entries are UTF-8, so these will preserve character formatting better now also. 

[patchworkid]

hi 

 

what Hebrew font does e-Sword use?  I know it is something like Titus Cyberbit basic, but what I am asking is name of font like HebraicaII or another Hebrew or Greek font 

 

example:

 Hebrew font.zip   3.55K   10 downloads

 

thanks for you help in fixing the Hebrew font.  So I can change the colour using the Hebrew Unicode Fixup.

 

Patchworkid 

[Josh Bond]

e-Sword uses whatever Hebrew font is designated in Options > Fonts. By default, the Hebrew font is set to Titus Cyberbit Basic.

 

The issue in your RTF file is your Hebrew is rendered in a legacy font. A legacy font is where the font maker edited the letters to be Hebrew characters. So the text, "anAhnh", might look like jibberish in any English font, but when rendered with the HebraicaII font, it appears "right"--as Hebrew characters.

 

These legacy fonts were used in older Bible software, which is probably where you copied the text from. No one uses legacy fonts anymore. Now, unicode is used, which is a series of codes that correspond with universal or standardized characters.

 

e-Sword is looking for unicode characters. T4 assumes unicode characters. If you try using a legacy font in a T4 module, e-Sword will render the Hebrew as jibbiersh. T4's Hebrew "fixup" will not work on legacy fonts. T4 is looking for unicode.

 

[patchworkid]

hi

 

Ok, So how can I fix it to work in T4 and e-Sword?

 

thanks

[ebulerdo]

Hi Patchworkid

 

what Hebrew font does e-Sword use?  I know it is something like Titus Cyberbit basic, but what I am asking is name of font like HebraicaII or another Hebrew or Greek font 

 

Josh has explained what a legacy font is. The good news is you will easily find converters from most legacy fonts to unicode. Just search Google for "convert hebrew legacy unicode". I found this one online that supports several different formats, but there are many more, as well as downloadable converters:

http://www.tertullia...rse/convert.htm

 

On the other hand, Titus Cyberbit, which is the default font for Hebrew and Greek in e-Sword, has a problem with pointed Hebrew text. Vowel points appear displaced to the left, in many occasions they seem to be under the next letter. A free font that I like a lot and fixes this problem is Ezra SIL. It contains all the Hebrew characters you may ever need, and it looks great. :-)

 

Regards,

 

Carlos

[Josh Bond]

I convert with a Microsoft Word macro made by Galaxie Software. Find the Galaxie part of the blog: http://www.biblesupp...h-biblesupport/

 

That will convert HebraicaII to unicode.

 

The Titus Cyberbit Basic font issue is a completely separate issue. The end user can easily resolve this by changing the Hebrew font in e-Sword. Another good Hebrew replacement font is Cardo. But again, you're not trying to convert your legacy fonts to Cardo or Ezra SIL. You're trying to get to unicode and the unicode can be rendered with the user's font choice in e-Sword.

[Josh Bond]

A good Greek replacement font in e-Sword (Options > Fonts > Greek) is Gentium. It's greek character rending is better. And it's vastly superior in its display of accents, breathings, tilde's, etc.

 

Anyone who is seriously interested in Greek or Hebrew should discard Titus Cyberbit Basic. That's one definite lesson I've learned when working with Greek and Hebrew thus far.

[patchworkid]

hi

 

check this out

 

 GH Fonts.JPG   97.4K   45 downloads

 

The comparison of fonts Hebrew - Ezra SIL and Greek - Gentium vs Titus Cyberbit Basic

 

what do y'l say?

 

thanks

[DSaw]

actually for Greek I prefer Titus Cyberbit Basic with Gentuim you see you have seperation at Omicron and sigma but for Hebrew Titus Cyberbit Basic just does not render Hebrew correctly

[DSaw]

Brent I have a feature request

 

in tools you have format strong's numbers

This as you know changes the color and superscripts the number

 

what I would like to have along with that is

 

you can call it Format strong's for CMTX & DCTX or whatever

a) change the color

b) underline

c) no superscript

 

 

so I would get G2424 a not ^G2424

 

Is this doable

Edited by DSaw, 16 January 2013 - 03:52 PM.