Brad Pribbenow Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Hi. I am having some errors with pasting Unicode from Accordance into MS Word for Mac (2011). I have attached a screen shot to show what I'm encountering. For starters, the Hebrew pointing is not working--the pointing appears in its own "space" (my non-technical term) rather than in the same "space" as the Hebrew consonant. Also, letters--both in Hebrew and in Greek--which have some sort of special accents appear as square blocks. FYI: I have have the Unicode font chosen as my export font, and the default font is Times New Roman. Any help on this? Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Which Mac OS? Which version of Accordance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Pribbenow Posted August 28, 2014 Author Share Posted August 28, 2014 I am running OS X 10.9.4. I am running Accordance 10.4.3.2. Note: I tried to do an App Update from within Accordance in order to get to 10.4.4 (is that the latest version?) but it says I have the latest version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bennett Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Word for Mac does not support RTL languages properly. At best you can do single words, but even then the results are not great. Some other recommendations are LibreOffice (OpenOffice.org), Mellel, and Nisus Writer Pro. As for the Greek, that's a font issue. Times New Roman does not support all the code points used in Greek (even in your shot you can see several letters are using a substituted font, likely Lucida Grande). If you want something similar use Times. The SBLBibLit font is also pretty good for English and other languages, though I do not particularly like the scripty feel of the Greek. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Brylov Christensen Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Word for Mac does not support RTL languages properly. At best you can do single words, but even then the results are not great. Some other recommendations are LibreOffice (OpenOffice.org), Mellel, and Nisus Writer Pro. As for the Greek, that's a font issue. Times New Roman does not support all the code points used in Greek (even in your shot you can see several letters are using a substituted font, likely Lucida Grande). If you want something similar use Times. The SBLBibLit font is also pretty good for English and other languages, though I do not particularly like the scripty feel of the Greek. I agree - I personally prefer to use the Linux Libertine font for rendering Greek text. Or Palatino Linotype. Both do a much better job than SBL Greek/BibLit. But I still use the latter for Biblical Studies papers though, seeing that it has become the unofficial standard font of choice for these things. (Fortunately, SBL Hebrew isn't completely horrible to look at.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Personally I'm using the Cardo font by David Parry from Tyndale house : for Greek. It's supposed to do Hebrew but I've not tried it. I use in LibreOffice on both Mac and Windows. thx D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Brylov Christensen Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Personally I'm using the Cardo font by David Parry from Tyndale house : for Greek. It's supposed to do Hebrew but I've not tried it. I use in LibreOffice on both Mac and Windows. thx D Ah, I can see why - it does look quite good. Now I have three fonts to choose from! Choices, choices... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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