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.
Be sure Keyman is installed before installing the keyboard. 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. 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). 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.
The Ezra SIL font is supposed to render text identically to the printed BHS.
They were developed together, but there are some differences in how they display markings. The two Ezra SIL fonts are available to provide two different styles of cantillation marks. Exodus 20:4:1-4 SRĮzra SIL SR - a Different Style of Marking Exodus 20:4:1-4Ĭontaining the same set of Unicode characters as above but with a different style of cantillation. One download, two fontsĬontaining the basic set of Unicode characters needed for Biblical Hebrew texts following the typeface and traditions of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Ezra SIL is a typeface fashioned after the square letter forms of the typography of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), a beautiful Old Testament volume familiar to Biblical Hebrew scholars.įor more information on certain characters used in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, go to this page.