Hebrew final kap with shwa

[dgarrett]

I'm a Bib. Heb. student, and am trying to write a paper that includes a lot of Hebrew. Would someone please help me figure out how to insert a qamets or shwa into a final kaph, "embedded" like you would a dagesh? I use Mellel and Unicode fonts, e.g. Lucida Grande.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

DG

[Robb B]

Qamets is shift+option+j to get it into a final form. I'm having trouble finding the shewa...

 

I apologize, this is for the Yehudit font. I'll leave it in case others might find it helpful though...

[Helen Brown]

If you use Accordance (not in Unicode to exportable to Unicode), or Mellel, it should insert the correct accent after the prior letter. MS Word does not fully support Hebrew.

[jpkang]

I'm a Bib. Heb. student, and am trying to write a paper that includes a lot of Hebrew. Would someone please help me figure out how to insert a qamets or shwa into a final kaph, "embedded" like you would a dagesh? I use Mellel and Unicode fonts, e.g. Lucida Grande.

As Helen notes, if you need to just cite biblical forms, you can turn on the Unicode export option in the Greek & Hebrew preferences, and just paste from the BHS-W4 text into Mellel.

 

Lucida Grande's Hebrew vowels and pointing do not render well in OS X. I recommend the free SBL Hebrew Unicode font, which Mellel has very good contextual suport for, and renders these vowels very nicely. These are the OS X Hebrew-QWERTY layout key combinations, regardless of position relative to the consonant:

 

Qamets = shift-a

Shewa = option-zero

and as a bonus,

Dagesh = option-period

 

Note that Mellel properly renders the dagesh and qamets on the final kaph as in Num 6.25.

[dgarrett]

Thank you! SBL Hebrew works like a champ. It is the only font I could find that will create the correct final kaph. Again, thanks. DG