Typesetting the Holy Bible in Hebrew, with TEX

Language Support A Simple Technique for Typesetting Hebrew with Vowel Points

This paper describes a simple mechanism for typesetting Hebrew with vowel points. Hebrew uses a large set of accents that represent vowels, consonant modifiers, and cantillation instructions. These accents are placed above, below, or inside letters; a single letter can carry several accents. The solution that we describe, which is designed for PostScript [2] output devices, leaves the placement...

Universalism in Medicine through the Ages – I

In the Indian Holy Book – THE UPANISADS (800 B.C.), man has been described as “the son of the Sublime” (“Amritasya Putra”). It is recorded in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis (First Book of Holy Hebrew Bible [The Old Testament (c. 200 B.C.)] that God made man in his own image after his likeness as the crowning glory of his creation. The Holy Koran (c. 630 A.D.) says : “God sends down no...

Sexual Activity during Menstruation in The Holy Bible and Quran

An Anotated Bibliography of Hebrew Typesetting

Information about Hebrew type and typesetting is available, but hard to find. Information about the design and use of typefaces and about the design of books and other publications is useful for fine typesetting and printing. Publications about type and typesetting in the Latin script are widely available in bookstores, libraries, and online, but similar publications concerning other scripts ar...

ΩTimes and ΩHelvetica Fonts Under Development: Step One

ΩTimes and ΩHelvetica will be public domain virtual Timesand Helvetica-like fonts based upon real PostScript fonts, which we call “Glyph Containers”. They will contain all necessary characters for typesetting efficiently (that is, with TEX quality) in all languages and systems using the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and Tifinagh alphabets and their derivatives. All Unicode characters w...