Writing Greek & Hebrew on a computer
In the old days, a font only had as many characters as a keyboard, so when you made a Hebrew font, the A was Aleph, B was Beth etc. Now we have Unicode, which is much easier to use, but a little more difficult to implement. This will show you how to install and use Unicode easily on your computer.	Unicode fonts Tyndale Unicode Kit Converting older fonts Changing the layout

. Unicode fonts Now, with Unicode, a font can have thousands of characters - it can include English, all the strange European accents, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic etc etc - not all fonts have all characters, so sometimes you have some nasty surprises. What is in each font? - use Word > Insert > Symbols > More Symbols    - you can select different fonts and see what is in them - Windows has a few very full fonts and other less full ones - Times New Roman and Arial have most characters you need - but some breathings and pointings for Hebrew are missing, so you need an academic font - when you use something not in those fonts, Windows sometimes substitutes Tahoma which has more breathings etc - Windows 7 now has most of these symbols, so soon we may not need other fonts. Academic Hebrew & Greek fonts - all you need for Greek is in Cardo, TITUS, SBL Greek, Galatia SIL - all you need for Hebrew is in Cardo, TITUS, SBL Hebrew, Ezra SIL - perhaps one day SBL and SIL will put the Hebrew and Greek characters in one font, but at present they are separate - Cardo has everything you need, plus a lot of strange Latin characters needed for early Christian studies. - it doesn't always look perfect on the screen, but printed out it looks wonderful

. Tyndale Unicode Kit The easiest way to set up these fonts on PC or Macs is with theTyndale Unicode Kit. - dowload the kit for PC or Mac Here's how to install it on PC:  Just keep clicking "Agree", "Next" etc. - if you are asked "Remove" or "Repair",  this means you've already installed it and you might be removing it. Click "Repair" - you should now see "EN" on your taskbar. Click on it and you'll see Greek & Hebrew - to write in Hebrew you select "Hebrew" AND make sure you are using the right keyboard   (though, as I said, the default Times New Roman is very good now) - when you've finished, go back to the webpage and download the "Summary Keyboard Layout" - if you get stuck there is a long help page showing everything with screenshots.

. Converting older fonts If you have old documents with old fonts, you really should convert them. - BibleScript is now free (click on "Windows installer" or download here) - it has a button RTL2000 which integrates nicely with Word

. Changing the layout If you don't like the layout of the keyboards you can change them - for PC use the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator -  for Mac use Ukelele from SIL