Hi Barry, Just in case it isn't clear, there are two issues: having a font with the necessary characters, and being able to input them in Word. Most fonts don't quite have everything necessary for academic Hebrew transliteration. One very nice Unicode option which I think should do the trick would be SIL's Gentium Plus ( http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium ) - though it only comes in normal and italics, not bold. (And I agree with Daniel - nowadays, I would only consider using Unicode fonts.)
In terms of inputting the right characters, you can do things like type hexadecimal codes, or install a special keyboard. A different keyboard will simply map the keys you type to a different range of Unicode characters (assuming your current font has them). However, if you're not going to be typing a lot of transliterated Hebrew, perhaps the simplest option in Word is just to insert characters using the built-in character map (in Word 2007, it's Insert -> Symbol -> More Symbols). Hope that helps. Stephen Shead Centro de Estudios Pastorales Santiago, Chile ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Barry H." <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:10:27 -0400 > Subject: [b-hebrew] Hebrew Transliteration > Greetings, all, for once I have an actual question instead of my typical > snide and/or humorous comment. With regards to transliteration, I want to > get mine to look like it does in the journals, standard scholarly stuff. > Using MS Word 2010 or the latest OpenOffice, how would one do this? Is > there a special character set than can be downloaded? Or does one just get > it as close as possible and let the editors do the rest? > > Thanks in advance, > > N.E. Barry Hofstetter > Semper melius Latine sonat... > The American Academy > http://www.theamericanacademy.**net <http://www.theamericanacademy.net> > (2010 Salvatori Excellence in Education Winner) > > http://my.opera.com/**barryhofstetter/blog<http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog> > > > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
