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[patchworkid]

Hi 

 

I need help to convert Bwgrkl and Bwhebb fonts to unicode (TitusCyberbit Basic) to be used in e-Sword.

here is a sample of what I mean

 test font.rtf   2.93K   7 downloads

 

To have a tool to convert these types of fonts to unicode (TitusCyberbit Basic) would be a very helpful to us who make modules.

 

Macros

 unimacros.zip   129.22K   12 downloads

 

How do I use this?

 

Thank you 

Patchworkid

 

Edited by patchworkid, 13 February 2014 - 09:58 AM.

[Josh Bond]

Use the Galaxie Font converter I outlined in the blog post about the software I use. This requires Microsoft Word.

 

 unicode-convert.png   135.98K   27 downloads

 

 

Hi 

 

I need help to convert Bwgrkl and Bwhebb fonts to unicode (TitusCyberbit Basic) to be used in e-Sword.

here is a sample of what I mean

test font.rtf

 

To have a tool to convert these types of fonts to unicode (TitusCyberbit Basic) would be a very helpful to us who make modules.

 

Macros

unimacros.zip

 

How do I use this?

 

Thank you 

Patchworkid

 

[patchworkid]

hi Josh,

 

I can not find the program,  I only have the fonts and a Word doc called Normal

 

I really do not know what I am doing Please help with clearer directions.

 

thank you very much.

[Josh Bond]

From the Galaxie website: 

 

 

Download BibleScript Fonts and Word Template

Includes fonts and MS Word template for typing right to left in hebrew and converting most other Greek and Hebrew fonts to unicode.

• galxie fonts (zip file)

Copy the fonts to your fonts folder and copy the Normal.dot file to your C:\Documents and Settings\Your Username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates folder. If you have modified your normal.dot with macros and styles, then don't replace it. Import the macro projects to your existing normal.dot.

 

[patchworkid]

hi

 

I am still having problems.

 

I can not find this folder \Application Data\Microsoft\Templates folder.

If I can not do this, can you Josh or somebody do convert some files for me.

 

thanks

[JPG]

search for Normal.dotm file and you will get the folder if it is hidden.

 

Jon

[patchworkid]

Hi

thank you Josh for helping me figure this out. It is working now.

thanks again
Patchworkid

Edited by patchworkid, 13 February 2014 - 09:21 PM.

[TommyJSmithJr]

I see from the post you have things working.  I could have just told you where the normal.dot file was, but I thought I would help you understand what was going on with the videos.  I hope it was not too much information.  I usually try to help people learn how to fish instead of handing out the fish, but not always.

 

I hope the chat exchange and messages were of some help.

[Oxford eBooks]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me with a conversion from BWHEBL to unicode.

I've been using the Galaxie converter mentioined above for a couple of years to convert BW Hebrew and Greek to Unicode for eBook conversions and it words just great.

However, in a new book I'm converting for a client, the conversion seems to be wrong. I'm missing some accents and the character order comes out wrong.

The only thing that's different here is that they're using BWHEBL rather than BWHEBB which the converter can handle. If I take the HEB text and change the font to BWHEBB, it looks identical and the converter picks it up just fine.

The raw ASCII for a sample that comes out wrongly is:

#r<a’(h’ taeîw> ~yIm:ßV’h

 

When I do the firsat step to convert to Galaxie fonts, I get this:

 

 

The original is on top, and below each word on a separate line. Looks 'okay', some bits missing, but then when I convet to Unicode, I get

 

 

A total mess with unconverted bits all over the place and wrong character order?

 

Does anyone knwo what's going wrong here or know of a REALLY reliable converter? I do a LOT of Christian eBook conversion and really want to make sure this stuff is spot on.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

 

Andy

[Oxford eBooks]

Looks like what was throwing it was the accents over the initial Alef. Looks like a Pashta or Qadma??

 

Anyhoo... I've now written my own converter that fits into my eBooks toolchain, so I don't have to do anything special now when eBooks come in with BW hebrew fonts.

Works fine apart from the Pashta / Qadma, which just turn out like QAMATS (little T shape accent) - even though I encode it as unicode 05A8 or 0599.

 

... odd, but nearly there!