From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Jul 19 2004 - 12:52:46 CDT
On 19/07/2004 03:20, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> ...
>
> Jony's right: when it's down to brass tacks in Hebrew, it's consonants
> and whitespace (and punctuation, I guess).
>
Agreed. But then there are a few characters which are not combining
marks but which are really part of the accent system and so should
perhaps be stripped when points are removed: 05C0 paseq/legarmeh, which
should be deleted; and 05BE maqaf, which should be replaced by a (word
dividing) space. For 05C0 is an annotation which certainly has no place
in an unpointed text; and in an accented text whether two words are
separated by maqaf or space depends on their accentuation, and space is
always used in unaccented texts.
Within the biblical text it would also be logical to delete 05C3 sof
pasuq, but its use elsewhere as punctuation suggests otherwise.
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