From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 18:42:47 CST
According to Alan Hoenig, the author of Makor2, a typesetting
environment for Hebrew for Omega (Unicodified TeX):
> By and large, Israeli punctuation matches that of the rest of the
> world. One difference from American grammar is the frequent occurence
> of the sequence `?!' to indicate some level of amazed incredulity.
> Just for fun, I have included in my Hebrew fonts the `interrobang'
> symbol ‽, which you get by typing either !? or ?!. Perhaps this symbol
> will now sweep the world of Hebrew typesetting by storm‽ See below if
> you want to typeset the usual sequence.
(see
http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/language/hebrew/makor/tex/makor2/mkr2man.pdf
p.14)
Believe that if you like. I'd say that rhetorical and surprised
questions are very common at least in Talmudic and Rabbinic phraseology.
~mark
Patrick Andries wrote:
> http://www.tutoweb.com/blog/index.php wondered about the use of U+203D.
>
> I must say, I'm not too sure myself. Does anybody know ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> P. .A
>
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