Charlie
06-07-2006, 11:09 AM
Features new to BibleWorks 7 are the ability to export Greek and Hebrew to Unicode, as well as the ability to type Unicode in the rewritten BibleWorks Editor. The following points should be considered regarding the support of Unicode in BibleWorks.
1. One can type Unicode Greek or Hebrew into the BibleWorks 7 Editor only. When using a Unicode font one can use any of a number of keyboard layouts provided by Microsoft or other vendors. All of these layouts are handled by Windows rather than individual applications like BibleWorks. BibleWorks 7 does however ship with a Unicode Hebrew keyboard driver that supports typing Unicode Hebrew characters using the same keyboard layout used by the BibleWorks non-Unicode Hebrew font (bwhebb.ttf). For instructions on how to install this keyboard driver click here (http://www.bibleworks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2154).
2. Typewritten entry of Unicode Greek or Hebrew is not supported in any other part of the program. All parts of BibleWorks other than the Editor use the BibleWorks non-Unicode fonts (bwgrkl.ttf and bwhebb.ttf). These fonts were designed to allow all users on any operating system to share documents containing Greek or Hebrew and to make typing in Greek or Hebrew very simple for the majority of our users. (If you know the Greek or Hebrew alphabets you generally type the logical Latin character on your keyboard. For instance, to type a or a type a; to type b or b type b. To type the command .ihsouj cristoj simply type .ihsous cristos. To type the command .~yhla hwhy simply type .yhwh alhym.) For more about these fonts including keyboard layouts click here (http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html).
3. You can set BibleWorks 7 to automatically convert Greek and Hebrew text into Unicode when it is copied/exported from BibleWorks by doing the following:
NOTE: Not all Unicode fonts are up to date and therefore not all will work for all text (especially Hebrew text containing accents). We therefore recommend that you use the "SBL Hebrew" Unicode font that comes with BibleWorks 7 for Hebrew and the "Palatino Linotype" Unicode font that comes with Windows for Greek. Of course in theory all Unicode fonts are supposed to work, but that ideal does not yet exist.
Click Tools>Options and go to the Fonts tab.
Select "Export Fonts" under Font Set to Edit.
Then change the Hebrew font to "SBL Hebrew," the Greek font to "Palatino Linotype" and make sure you check the Unicode check box to the left of both Hebrew and Greek. See screenshot. Click OK and BibleWorks will from now on convert all Greek and Hebrew text to Unicode text when you copy/export.Last Update: ELM/February 21, 2007
1. One can type Unicode Greek or Hebrew into the BibleWorks 7 Editor only. When using a Unicode font one can use any of a number of keyboard layouts provided by Microsoft or other vendors. All of these layouts are handled by Windows rather than individual applications like BibleWorks. BibleWorks 7 does however ship with a Unicode Hebrew keyboard driver that supports typing Unicode Hebrew characters using the same keyboard layout used by the BibleWorks non-Unicode Hebrew font (bwhebb.ttf). For instructions on how to install this keyboard driver click here (http://www.bibleworks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2154).
2. Typewritten entry of Unicode Greek or Hebrew is not supported in any other part of the program. All parts of BibleWorks other than the Editor use the BibleWorks non-Unicode fonts (bwgrkl.ttf and bwhebb.ttf). These fonts were designed to allow all users on any operating system to share documents containing Greek or Hebrew and to make typing in Greek or Hebrew very simple for the majority of our users. (If you know the Greek or Hebrew alphabets you generally type the logical Latin character on your keyboard. For instance, to type a or a type a; to type b or b type b. To type the command .ihsouj cristoj simply type .ihsous cristos. To type the command .~yhla hwhy simply type .yhwh alhym.) For more about these fonts including keyboard layouts click here (http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html).
3. You can set BibleWorks 7 to automatically convert Greek and Hebrew text into Unicode when it is copied/exported from BibleWorks by doing the following:
NOTE: Not all Unicode fonts are up to date and therefore not all will work for all text (especially Hebrew text containing accents). We therefore recommend that you use the "SBL Hebrew" Unicode font that comes with BibleWorks 7 for Hebrew and the "Palatino Linotype" Unicode font that comes with Windows for Greek. Of course in theory all Unicode fonts are supposed to work, but that ideal does not yet exist.
Click Tools>Options and go to the Fonts tab.
Select "Export Fonts" under Font Set to Edit.
Then change the Hebrew font to "SBL Hebrew," the Greek font to "Palatino Linotype" and make sure you check the Unicode check box to the left of both Hebrew and Greek. See screenshot. Click OK and BibleWorks will from now on convert all Greek and Hebrew text to Unicode text when you copy/export.Last Update: ELM/February 21, 2007