RE: [hebrew] Re: Karaite manuscript

From: Jonathan Rosenne (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2007 - 10:14:03 CDT

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Simon Montagu
    > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 12:44 PM
    > To: verdy_p@wanadoo.fr
    > Cc: 'John Hudson'; unicode@unicode.org; 'Thomas Milo'; 'Hebrew List'
    > Subject: Re: [hebrew] Re: Karaite manuscript
    >
    >
    > Philippe Verdy wrote:
    > > John Hudson wrote:
    > >> Yes, recreating this document with current software and
    > fonts would
    > >> be a nightmare. But these things exist, and someday
    > someone is going
    > >> to want to produce an electronic edition for study.
    > >
    > > Given that the authors of this document needed to use color to make
    > > the distinction between hebrew points and the Arabic text, that was
    > > entered in a separate flow, I fear this document can't qualify as
    > > being ever transcodable into plain text (simply because color color
    > > distinctions are currently not encodable).
    >
    > This seems to me a non sequitur.
    >
    > The vowel points in the Aleppo Codex also appear to have been
    > entered in
    > a separate flow, and a slightly different colored ink. This isn't
    > apparent in the reproductions available online, but it's
    > quite clear in
    > the codex itself (and the colophon states that the consonants
    > and vowels
    > were written by different scribes).

    That is how you do vowel points in handwriting: first you write the letters,
    then you add the points. If you write them together it will look awkward.

    Jony
    >
    >



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