From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 00:53:57 EDT
Peter,
I have not seen an answer to my question: Is the distinction from the Masora
or later.
The evidence you present supports a claim that some manuscripts and printers
have been making the distinction for hundreds of years.
However, the distinction is rare, and common use does not make it. This
common use somewhat predates computers, and the disparaging remark is out of
order.
Jony
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>
> For the two positions of holam on vav, the glyphs have been written
> differently in MSS and by careful typographers for a thousand
> years, but
> some typographers and computer equipment make the glyphs identical,
> probably originally as a shortcut.
>
>
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> Peter Kirk
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