Samaritan shin symbol (Was: Aramaic unification and information retrieval)

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 15:19:40 EST

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    At 10:10 PM 1/14/2004, Peter Constable wrote:

    > > Perhaps it must be in any case, due to directionality issues.
    >
    >Apparently nobody noticed that I submitted a proposal for this thing
    >last year, the response to which was that it should be left until all of
    >Samaritan is encoded.

    Do you know if the directionality issue was considered at that time. I sent
    Michael a number of scans of the Samaritan shin in use as a symbol in BHS
    apparatus critici, including in use in direct proximity with LTR letters,
    numbers and other symbols.

    John Hudson

    Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
    Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

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