From john@tiro.ca Fri Dec 15 11:57:49 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list hebrew); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:04:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by unicode.org (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBFHvmiB030998; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:57:49 -0600 Received: from pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.69]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JAB003JWTW25B60@l-daemon>; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:57:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0JAB00C8TTW25UZ0@pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca>; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:57:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([70.66.9.120]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JAB009ANTW1UL50@l-daemon>; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:57:38 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:57:32 -0800 From: John Hudson Subject: [hebrew] Re: Half square brackets In-reply-to: To: Michael Everson Cc: Hebrew Discussion , Unicode Discussion Message-id: <4582E20C.3050608@tiro.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-archive-position: 3001 X-Approved-By: cowan@ccil.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: hebrew-bounce@unicode.org Errors-to: hebrew-bounce@unicode.org X-original-sender: john@tiro.ca Precedence: bulk X-list: hebrew Michael Everson wrote: > Many scholars use top or bottom half square brackets to indicate that > MSS or papyri are broken or worn away and that the text within the > brackets is supplied by the editor. > I am looking for an example of this custom in editions in Hebrew or > Arabic script (or indeed in any RTL script). Does anyone know of any? I have not seen this convention used with Hebrew. There is a different set of conventions used for e.g. Dead Sea Scrolls transcription, which employs square brackets, dots and circles to indicate various kinds of damaged letters, erased letters, presumed letters, etc. John Hudson -- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC john@tiro.ca Marie Antoinette was a woman whose core values were chocolate, sex, love, nature and Japanese ceramics. Frankly, there are worse principles of government than that. - Karen Burshtein From everson@evertype.com Fri Dec 15 12:48:53 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list hebrew); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:01:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from white.dnsireland.com (white.dnsireland.com [67.15.182.33]) by unicode.org (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBFImqLe019250; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:48:53 -0600 Received: from murrisk2.westnet.ie ([88.81.100.235]:36128 helo=[10.0.1.3]) by white.dnsireland.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GvI6x-0002au-Tq; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:48:48 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4582E20C.3050608@tiro.ca> References: <4582E20C.3050608@tiro.ca> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:44:06 +0000 To: Hebrew Discussion , Unicode Discussion From: Michael Everson Subject: [hebrew] Re: Half square brackets Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - white.dnsireland.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - unicode.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - evertype.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-archive-position: 3002 X-Approved-By: cowan@ccil.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: hebrew-bounce@unicode.org Errors-to: hebrew-bounce@unicode.org X-original-sender: everson@evertype.com Precedence: bulk X-list: hebrew At 09:57 -0800 2006-12-15, John Hudson wrote: >>Many scholars use top or bottom half square brackets to indicate >>that MSS or papyri are broken or worn away and that the text within >>the brackets is supplied by the editor. > >I have not seen this convention used with Hebrew. There is a >different set of conventions used for e.g. Dead Sea Scrolls >transcription, which employs square brackets, dots and circles to >indicate various kinds of damaged letters, erased letters, presumed >letters, etc. Interesting.. because the half square brackets are certainly used in transcriptions of Cuneiform... At least the convention should be known to Semiticists. -- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com