While few problems are generally encountered with fonts other than the BibleWorks Greek and Hebrew fonts (bwgrkl and bwhebb), there may be points in which one experiences incompatibilities. In one case, for example, a font that displayed properly in the Browse Window produced incorrect results in the Flashcard Module.

BibleWorks will, however, allow Greek and Hebrew to be exported to word processor documents in a different font. That is, you can use BibleWorks fonts within BibleWorks but use a different Greek or Hebrew font in your word processor.

To use this feature you must have the fonts installed that you want to be used for exported text. Then you simply go to Tools>Options>Fonts and change the typeface for the Greek or Hebrew export font.

If a non-Unicode font is used for export, it will be necessary to create a font-mapping table that aligns each BibleWorks font character with the corresponding character(s) in the font. Six mapping files are included with BibleWorks (they have a .FMP extension). They map the BibleWorks bwgrkl and bwhebb fonts to Linguist Software (Hebraica, Hebraica II, Graeca, and Graeca II) and non-Unicode SIL (SIL Ezra and SIL Galatia) fonts. Examine the existing FMP files to determine how they may be used as a template for creating a new one by clicking Edit Export Maps.

Font mapping files contain parallel columns of ASCII numbers for each set of corresponding characters. The first column contains the BibleWorks character's number and the second column contains the same character's number in the export font. For more information regarding the font remapping function click the Help button at the bottom of the Fonts tab of the Options dialog. For some special considerations concerning remapping to the SPIonic font, please see the note below.

Keying Hebrew into BibleWorks requires setup (instructions here and here). The Windows Hebrew keyboards shipped with BibleWorks do not display the BibleWorks bwhebb font. They simply map an existing Unicode font to the same characters BibleWorks uses. These keyboards may assign multiple characters to single keystrokes: for example, the ^ key actually types two characters, the caph and the qamets. The font itself adjusts the position of the vowel. Consequently, if difficulties arise in vowel placement, for example, it is useful to check the font provider site (such as SBL or SIL) to verify that one has in his/her C:\\Windows\\Fonts folder the latest version of the target font. If not, downloading and installing a font update may solve the problem.


Last Update - MC/August 12, 2009