From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 13:22:38 CDT
jameskass@att.net wrote:
> Please take a look at the attached screen shot taken from:
>
> www.yahweh.org/publications/sny/sn09Chap.pdf
>
> If anyone can look at the text in the screen shot and honestly
> say that they do not believe that it should be possible to
> encode it as plain text, then the solution is obvious:
If I provide you with an example of a Russian text that shows the pre-Petrine style
letterforms in parentheses after the post-Petrine norms, would you say that was a
convincing argument for separately encoding Old Church Slavonic as a different script from
Cyrillic? I have typeset a book that did precisely that, and I never thought for one
minute that this was a distinction that needed to be made in plain text.
Ironically, your example from yahweh.org has had, for me, the opposite affect of what you
intended: looking at it, I am actually less convinced of any need to encode Palaeo-Hebrew
as anything other than glyph variants of Hebrew. Your example shows a number of
identically spelled words written in two different styles. Showing Hebrew and
Palaeo-Hebrew side-by-side like that is just about the least convincing argument I've seen
for separate encoding. I was more inclined to support the encoding of 'Phoenician' before
I saw this example. Sorry.
John Hudson
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And I succeed sometimes
In making him win.
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