Re: Hebrew Vav Holam

From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 16:58:30 EDT

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    On 30/07/2003 13:32, Michael Everson wrote:

    > At 13:01 -0700 2003-07-30, Peter Kirk wrote:
    >
    >> On 30/07/2003 12:07, John Cowan wrote:
    >>
    >>>
    >>> When you say "it", which glyph do you mean? I would like a description
    >>> of what the two glyphs look like and how they are to be distinguished,
    >>> please.
    >>>
    >> See the reference glyph for U+FB4B. One form looks like this with the
    >> dot above further to the left, the other like it with the dot a
    >> little further to the right. This glyph with the centred dot is a
    >> compromise between the two.
    >
    >
    > A picture speaks a thousand words.

    Two thousand words for you. The two glyphs from Ezra SIL, and a scan
    from BHS showing the two glyphs in context.

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
    peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com
    http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
    
    
    





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