From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 00:18:27 EDT
The most reasonable way to achieve visible effects, as opposed to difference
in text, is by markup.
Jony
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> Subject: Back to Hebrew, was OT:darn'd fools
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> I would really rather know whether there's any fundamental
> Masoretic rationale for encoding holem>waw any differently
> from waw-holem....
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> I think the question was asked earlier whether the holem
> comes before or after the waw in holem-waw. I have been told
> that there was no visible difference between holem-waw and
> waw followed by holem in the original texts. However, after
> checking Emanuel Tov's plate of the Leningrad codex (p.392),
> it is clear to me that holem is clearly on the right of the
> waw, yet not over the preceding consonant. This lends
> credence to those of us who are BHS fans and would like to
> see a visible difference between holem-waw and waw-holem. The
> most reasonable means of achieving this is to encode the
> holem before the waw when it is holem-waw. The font designers
> can choose how they render this and the users can pick their
> preference by picking the font. Or eventually by setting a
> user feature, if this is ever incorporated into major software.
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> Let's not go backwards by unencoding holem-waw.
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> Joan Wardell
> SIL
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