![]() MIT/X11 License (for Hebrew layout intelligence only) Hebrew layout intelligence copyright © 2003 & 2007 Ralph Hancock and John Hudson, and licensed under the MIT/X11 License: Be sure Keyman is installed before installing the keyboard. Hebrew and Greek Transliteration (SIL) keyboard is a Keyman keyboard useable on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Any font with full Latin support should be adequate for Hebrew transliteration (see Doulos SIL, Charis SIL, or Gentium for an acceptable Unicode font for transliteration of Biblical Hebrew). TECkit mapping files for SIL Heb Trans fonts are available here and can be used with TECkit and/or SIL Converters. If you have text files typed with the pre-Unicode SIL Heb Trans fonts, they will have to be converted to Unicode. Transliteration Resources Data Conversion They also offer an MSKLC keyboard which closely follows the SIL Keyman layout. Windows only: An Israeli keyboard layout (using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator) is available from the Society of Biblical Literature. SIL Hebrew is a Keyman keyboard useable on Windows, Mac, and Linux. However, those provide for modern Hebrew input, not Biblical Hebrew. Windows and Mac operating systems provide a Hebrew keyboard as part of the OS. These can be used with TECkit and/or SIL Converters. Mapping files are available for download below (after the font packages). If you have text files typed with the pre-Unicode SIL Ezra font, they will have to be converted to Unicode to use with this font. No transliteration fonts are provided.Texts which have been converted to NFC or NFD canonical order will not display correctly with these fonts. Follows the recommendations for character order and encoding determined by a group of font developers during discussions in May 2003.Works in any application that uses OpenType fonts.Includes Latin-1 characters, but should not be used for solely Latin texts, since the punctuation is done in a Hebrew style.Improved placement of extra-biblical punctuation, such as period and comma.Unicode 5.0 support of Hebrew and Latin-1 codepages.Ezra SIL SR does not do this, but centers it, as for a normal patah. Ezra SIL shows furtive patah to the bottom right of the consonant, as in the printed BHS.With v2.0, Ezra SIL SR uses a diamond-shaped mark for the puncta, rather than a round dot.This is determined by the choice of code point for holam. Ezra SIL differentiates vocalic holam-waw (U+05D5 U+05B9) from consonantal waw-holam (U+05D5 U+05BA) by displaying the holam slightly to the right for the former and slightly to the left for the latter. ![]() Ezra SIL SR follows a different style of text.
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