From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 09:29:38 EST
Chris Jacobs wrote at 11:54 AM on Thursday, March 6, 2003:
>> The case of (written) Yo'MaR is not an exception. The pronunciation is
>> "yomar", the aleph not being pronounced; and therefore the KHOLEM is
>> written after the consonant which directly precedes it in pronunciation.
>
>But not above that consonant.
My point being only that the KHOLEM does not precede the consonant after
which it is pronounced.
>It explains that SHIN+KHOLEM "sho" and KHOLEM+SIN "os" are written the
>same way. A shin with two dots above it.
>However, if it is KHOLEM+SIN, "os" then it is not a syllabe, i.e. the
>KHOLEM logically belongs to the preceding syllabe.
Do you have an example of SIN with two dots? I have never seen it. This
would make for ambiguous orthography, which, of course, does occur, but
is usually, by design, avoided. But just to pull out one example, in the
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, BoSeM, "balsam", is written with the
KHOLEM over the BET not the SIN - the SIN has one dot. And this pattern
is repeated everywhere there.
>"shares the same dot" cannot only happen with SIN DOT, dot to the left,
>but also with SHIN DOT, dot to the right.
>I was thinking of the latter.
>As in MoSHeL. If the SHIN DOT here is a KHOLEM then clearly the KHOLEM
>belonging to the M is above the SH.
Again, I have never seen this. In the same edition mentioned above we
have MoSHeL, with two dots - the KHOLEM over the MEM (not the SHIN),
followed by the SHIN dot over the SHIN.
>It seems to be a _kerning_ problem.
>A hebrew letter with KHOLEM can have a part (the KHOLEM) which is above
>another letter.
>Are there hebrew computer fonts which do kerning?
The most elegant fonts I am aware of for classical Hebrew are produced by
Linguist's Software, <http://linguistsoftware.com/>. Their HebraicaII is
used by Biblia Hebraica, the Oxford Hebrew Bible Project, and the Dead
Sea Scrolls Project.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
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