| README |
| Ezra SIL |
| 15 June 2007 |
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| Thank you for choosing the Ezra SIL fonts. SIL International is an |
| organization of linguists dedicated to the study and promotion of |
| the thousands of minority languages around the world. |
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| We are happy to make these fonts available to the general |
| public at no charge, under the terms of the SIL Open Font License |
| (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL) and the MIT/X11 License (see Licenses.txt). |
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| More SIL fonts can be found at: http://scripts.sil.org |
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| Ezra SIL is a trademark of SIL International. |
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| See licenses.txt and OFL-FAQ.txt for details of the SIL Open Font License. |
| See FONTLOG.txt for information on this and previous releases. |
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| TIPS |
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| We do not offer technical support. The font has, however, been through |
| some testing on various platforms to be sure it works in most situations. |
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| If you do find a problem, please do report it to <fonts AT sil DOT org>. |
| We can't guarantee any direct response, but will try to fix reported bugs in |
| future versions. |
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| Many problems can be solved, or at least explained, through an understanding |
| of the encoding and use of the fonts. Here are some basic hints: |
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| Encoding: |
| The fonts are encoded according to Unicode, so your application must support |
| Unicode text in order to access letters other than the standard alphabet. Most |
| applications provide basic Unicode support. However, since Hebrew is a |
| right-to-left script your application must also support right-to-left behavior. |
| In addition, the application must support OpenType to get correct diacritic |
| placement. |
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| Encoding Conversion: |
| Some TECkit mappings are provided for text conversion between legacy and Unicode. |
| Unicode-Ezra-Chart17short.pdf provides a Unicode chart. |
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| Keyboarding on Windows: |
| For information on the provided Keyman keyboard layout, print |
| Ezra SIL Keyboard Chart23.pdf. The Keyman program is available from |
| http://www.tavultesoft.com. |
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| For detailed installation instructions, print the installation |
| guide: Keying in Hebrew.pdf or go to |
| http://scripts.sil.org/KeyboardInstallationAndUse |
| and select Keyman Install from the table of contents, if you are using the |
| Keyman keyboard. |
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| Another Windows keyboard is an MSKLC keyboard provided by The |
| Society of Biblical Literature. It can be found here: |
| http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/Resources_BiblicalFonts.aspx |
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| Keyboarding on Linux: |
| For information on the dedicated keyboard layout, see KMFL |
| (http://kmfl.sourceforge.net) and the corresponding kmfl-keyboard-SIL-Ezra |
| package. |
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| Typographic Features: |
| You should expect to get the same typographic features and diacritic |
| placement as is found in the printed Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia 1967/77, 1983. |
| If you require a different style of typography, you should use a different font |
| or you may make your own, under the terms of the OFL. Please do not request of |
| us changes to the font that are not found in the BHS. |
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| Source files: |
| Sources for Ezra SIL are provided in the source package and on the website. |
| The FontLab .vfb sources are available under the OFL and the VOLT .vtp sources |
| for the Hebrew layout intelligence are provided under the MIT/X11 license. |
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| CONTACT |
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| For more information please visit the Ezra SIL page on SIL International's |
| Computers and Writing systems website: |
| http://scripts.sil.org/EzraSIL_Home |
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| Or send an email to <fonts AT sil DOT org> |
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