Sources for Aramaic fonts and texts with vowel points

[dlydick]

I have several questions about BW fonts and texts with vowel points.

1. Does anyone know a good source for Aramaic fonts for Windows systems? Especially those with vowel points?

2. BW's TAR version, "TAR/TAM Targumim (Aramaic Old Testament)", carries Masoretic Hebrew vowel points. Do any BW Aramaic or Syriac texts carry any flavor of Aramaic vowel points?

3. Do any of them carry Masoretic Hebrew vowel points besides TAR?

4. Does anyone know of any Hebrew fonts for DavkaWriter that carry any flavor of Aramaic vowel points?

Thanks for your help,

Daniel

[hupostasix]

I have several questions about BW fonts and texts with vowel points.

1. Does anyone know a good source for Aramaic fonts for Windows systems? Especially those with vowel points?

2. BW's TAR version, "TAR/TAM Targumim (Aramaic Old Testament)", carries Masoretic Hebrew vowel points. Do any BW Aramaic or Syriac texts carry any flavor of Aramaic vowel points?

3. Do any of them carry Masoretic Hebrew vowel points besides TAR?

4. Does anyone know of any Hebrew fonts for DavkaWriter that carry any flavor of Aramaic vowel points?

Thanks for your help,

Daniel

Both (Biblical!) Aramaic and Masoretic Hebrew use the same niqqud vowel points (which humorously enough, they will carry over into Paleo Hebrew if you don't remove them). My suggestion if you need certain stylised niqqud or Aramaic glyphs, simply to take an existing Hebrew font and modify the glyphs as necessary (this is how I created my own custom Proto-Sinaitic font), or see if there are any existing fonts on the internet which I bet there are. I simply made my own so I was not restricted by copyright.

As for BibleWorks itself, internally its font manipulation is not Unicode IIRC as it was designed before computers could handle elaborate fonts properly (it was only until later versions of BibleWorks that copying out text converted it to Unicode).