2010/8/23 Carsten Ziegert <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I am facing a problems with hebrew vowels while trying three different > fonts (see example file): > > With SBL Hebrew and Ezra SIL, the vowels are too much on the left under > the consonants. > Cardo seems ok, except for shureq (leftmost letter of the third and > fourth word from the left). The point is on the right hand side of the > Waw consonant instead of on the left. > > System specs: Ubuntu Karmic, fontspec 2010/08/01 v2.0c, > XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch2 (Web2C 7.5.6) > > What can I do to achieve the correct vowel adjustment? Does anyone have > experiences with fonts for Biblical Hebrew? >
Doing cantillated Hebrew is my day job. And I use XeLaTeX as my preferred
system for academic publishing.
I modified your minimal example to contrast the two methods. Note the
differences in the prologue. SBL Hebrew comes out right, SIL Ezra does not
(no disparagement of SIL Ezra!).
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode,bidi}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{TeX Gyre Schola}
%Set up for Biblical Hebrew
\TeXXeTstate=1
\newfontfamily{\sbl}[Script=Hebrew]{SBL Hebrew}
\begin{document}
%
\section*{SBL Hebrew}
\RL{\sbl{הָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ}}
\section*{Ezra SIL}
\newcommand{\heb}[1]{\TeXXeTstate=1{\fontspec{Ezra SIL}\beginR{#1}\endR}}
\heb{וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ}
\end{document}
Others here can no doubt explain the technical reasons why the first example
works and the second does not.
--
Blessings,
Kirk
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Kirk E. Lowery, PhD
President & Senior Research Fellow
The J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research
http://www.GrovesCenter.org/blogs/kirk
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