Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography. LaserPaleo-Hebrew is available for Windows and Macintosh. Top LaserPaleo-Hebrew for Windows TrueType® and Type 1 hinted Paleo-Hebrew fonts. The fonts are typed with your default keyboard. Simply select the font in your application's font menu and type, following one.
Unicode fonts are now becoming standard, and they are easy to use with the free Tyndale Unicode Font Kit.
Virtual Hebrew Keyboard is an OS X application which helps you with typing Hebrew characters and learning their layout. It shows a little Hebrew Virtual Hebrew Keyboard Mac OS X - Browse Files at SourceForge.net. Free Virtual Keyboard. A free, lightweight, multilingual and finger friendly virtual on-screen keyboard. Free Virtual Keyboard works on any Windows based PC with a touchscreen (Surface, Ultra-mobile PC, Tablet PC and Panel PC). You can use a mouse, touchscreen, pen or any other pointing device for typing. Hebrew keyboard is the easiest keyboard to write in Hebrew language. Hebrew keyboard for all of us who love Hebrew language. You can use this keyboard to write in Hebrew text. No need to copy and paste Hebrew text. This app is useful for Nepal people and Hebrew speaking people across the world. Hebrew Keyboard is a great tool and must to use. Download both the Biblical Hebrew Tiro keyboard driver and manual and follow the instructions provided for installation. A useful video for installation of the MAC Hebrew keyboard and Biblical Hebrew Tiro keyboard on the MAC can be found HERE. Page Updated: 19 March, 2011 Last.
Update: I think that this approach has now been made obsolete by the 'U.S. Extended' Keyboard Layout native to the Mac. Go to System Preferences / Language &.
Almost all word processors now support unicode - with the notable exceptions of Word Perfect on the PC and Word on the Mac before Word 2004. If you use Windows 98 or Mac OS 9 or earlier, you should use the legacy fonts.
The advantages of unicode are
The Tyndale Unicode Font Kit includes
The best fonts and utilities for both Mac and PC are sold by Linguist Software, though they are expensive. You may prefer the cheaper Greek and Hebrew utilities from Galaxie Software.
To convert older fonts, use the free BibleScript plug-in for Word from Galaxie. it converts common PC & Mac fonts to Galaxie Unicode, so you can then use Find & Replace with Font formatting to convert it to any other academic Unicode.
A wider range of fonts for both PC and Mac is available free from the Summer Institute of Linguistics. They have a very good Hebrew and Greek system, including a Right-to-Left editor but it only works with their Ezra font in a small window from which you copy and paste to other applications.
Perhaps the most useful fonts are the free SP Fonts which are available for Windows and Mac. These are not the most comprehensive but they are easy to use. They can be used on their own without a Keyboard program, or with the RTL (Right To Left) keyboard program (see below). Because these fonts are free, and they are exactly the same on a PC and a Mac, they can be sent to a publisher with your work and they are very suitable for use on a web site.
The Tyndale Greek & Hebrew font kit contains instructions and keyboard files which have been prepared at Tyndale House. It includes free SP fonts for Mac and PC, the Right-to-Left PC program, macros for Word 97 (it does not work with Word 2000+) and Keyboard files which make it very easy to type in Greek and Hebrew. For example:
To write type 'Gam'
(upper case inserts the dagesh, and final mem is used automatically when appropriate)
To write type 'eis'
(smooth breathing is inserted automatically, diphthongs are recognised and final sigma is used automatically when appropriate).
There are currently eight public domain fonts available for use for non-commercial purposes, e.g., publicly accessible Web sites and printed material. Anyone who wants to use the SP fonts in a commercial electronic product (online, CD-ROM, etc.) must get permission from Jimmy Adair, the copyright holder, prior to use. If you experience difficulties these fonts or have any questions please contact Christian Kelm. The Greek fonts use the same encoding scheme as the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, and the Hebrew & Syriac fonts use the Michigan-Claremont encoding scheme. More...
These fonts are in compressed format for Windows and Mac . If your computer doesn't recognise them, get a free uncompression program.
Copy the compressed file to your computer somewhere (e.g. the Desktop) then uncompress them and copy the font files into your Fonts folder (in you Windows or System folder). When you restart your applications, the new fonts will be available. Then delete the compressed files.
SPIonic (a complete biblical Greek font) | RTL Guide | Guide | Win | Mac |
SPTiberian (a complete biblical Hebrew font) | RTL Guide | Guide | Win | Mac |
SPDoric (a simpler, uncial Greek font) | Guide | Win | Mac | |
SPDamascus (a thinner Hebrew font with Palestinian as well as Tiberian vowel points) | Guide | Win | Mac | |
SPEzra (a simple, fixed-width Hebrew font) | Guide | Win | Mac | |
SPEdessa (a Syriac Estrangela font) | Guide | Win | Mac | |
SPAchmim (a Coptic font) | Guide | Win | Mac | |
SPAtlantis (a transliteration font that includes diacriticals and other special characters that allow the representation of numerous Indo-European, Semitic, and other languages--this font is available in both Roman and Italic type) | Guide | Win | Mac |