Skip to content

Writing Hebrew

I can’t find any of my Jewish friends on IRC. Is gimel, zayin, yud and kerned reasonably well, or is it just plain incorrect and/or an obvious demonstration that I don’t know what I’m doing?

Comments 8

  1. frobisher wrote:

    No, I’m not an expert on kerning, but it looks pretty decent to me.

    Disclaimer: finished hebrew school about 24 years ago. Damn, I’m old.

    /me waves cane around randomly, knocking things of shelves.

    Posted 23 Apr 2002 at 5:49 pm
  2. citizenx wrote:

    It is gimel, zayin, and yud (in the correct Hebrew RtL order), and the kerning seems pretty reasonable. You might want to increase the space between the gimel and zayin, but I don’t think it’s really a problem.

    I’m not saying this is a demonstration that you do know what you’re doing, though.

    Posted 23 Apr 2002 at 7:11 pm
  3. citizenx wrote:

    The more I look at it, the more it bothers me that the gimel and zayin are so close together. Mind you, I don’t read Hebrew very often, but it still seems wrong. This could also be because I should be looking at my LJ friends pages less often.

    Posted 24 Apr 2002 at 3:05 am
  4. Rich wrote:

    Better now?

    Posted 24 Apr 2002 at 1:32 pm
  5. citizenx wrote:

    That’s pretty nice, now. Sometimes it’s a wonder what a tiny bit of space will do.

    What are you doing this for, if’n you don’t mind me asking?

    Posted 25 Apr 2002 at 1:34 am
  6. Rich wrote:

    Great, thanks. I know what you mean about a tiny bit of space, which is why I
    specifically mentioned kerning in the journal entry. It’s not enough to be the right
    letters, it has to be right. But you understand that already. :-)

    It’s “gam zeh ya’avor” from the story of Solomon’s ring. The personal relevance
    of that story is a little harder to explain, but maybe if you’d show up on IRC some time,
    I could be convinced to explain. :-)

    Posted 25 Apr 2002 at 5:08 am
  7. citizenx wrote:

    Ho ho ho. Well, redundant (the machine on which I have a shell… I IRC from it, if you ever noticed my hostmask) lost its connection a week or so ago. I thought for a little while of getting another shell account, but redundant should be set up again RSN. This gives me more time to concentrate on other things, I guess.

    Posted 25 Apr 2002 at 7:17 am
  8. Rich wrote:

    Man, that’s what rinzai’s for. Drop me mail if you need sh3llz, d00d.

    (Not you, bystander!)

    Posted 25 Apr 2002 at 9:28 am