Crash when opening Ps. 148

Here is a curiosity. This morning I went to work on Ps. 148. I opened my standard layout for OT studies and went to navigate to Ps. 148. When the text (SESB) opened to the passage, the program crashed. I have tried it again about 20 times with different layouts and resources open each time. It seems to crash every time I have a Hebrew text resource open, whether that resource is SESB, AFAT, W4 or WIVU. When I open to Ps. 148 in an English text only (ESV, for example), or to the LXX, it does not crash. Also, the same Hebrew resources are just fine if I open them to a different location. However, if I navigate to Ps. 148 after working at another location, the program still crashes.

How weird is that? My first thought is that the resource file was corrupt, but the various resources cannot all be corrupt at the same place.

Anyway, the log files are attached, except for the SyncClientErrors.log file, which does not exist in my logging directory.

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Jack Caviness

My first thought is that the resource file was corrupt, but the various resources cannot all be corrupt at the same place.

Crashed here also using BHS w/Westminster 4.2 Morphology.

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Cameron Watters (Faithlife)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/186619#Comment_186619

I can repro. Creating a case.

Tom Philpot (Faithlife)

If you "Set hebrew font to EzraSIL", does it still crash?

This may be a work around until we can fix the problems with SBL Hebrew and Ps 148:5

David L Adams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/187110#Comment_187110

Tom:

Sorry that it has taken me a day or so to respond, but teaching classes got in the way.

Yes. setting the font to Ezra SIL does solve the problem. However it creates another, admittedly minor, one. Ezra SIL has different metrics. The result is that in books with both Hebrew and English (as in a lexicon) there is a considerable disparity between the size of the English text and that of Hebrew text. This is not a problem in the sense that it is a technical issue, but it does make for some rough reading, especially when the text jumps back and forth a lot. I would normally deal with this by lowering the point size of the Hebrew text, but that is not possible in this case since there is no way to adjust that setting

I also tried changing the Hebrew font to New Jerusalem (command: Set Hebrew Font to NewJerusalemU). New Jerusalem is an excellent commercial font available from Linguists' Software that is used by many publishers and scholars. This also avoided the crash problem with Ps. 148 and New Jerusalem is a more classical design (like Ezra SIL) and it is a much better match for the English text in size than Ezra SIL. However, I noticed that it creates an occasional problem with horizontal spacing in some resources. Also, since it is a font that users would have to buy, it is not really a long-term solution for most people (though adding support for this font would be a great, if minor, addition).

Anyway, using Ezra SIL works as a temporary solution.

Thanks, and please let us know when it is safe to go back to SBL Hebrew.

dla