From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 14:08:00 EST
At 07:57 AM 3/5/2003, Dean Snyder wrote:
>About the only "unusual" orthographic phenomenon I can think of related
>to KHOLEM is that when it occurs after SIN it "shares the same dot" with SIN.
Not always. I have not done a close analysis of manuscript sources, but I
wouldn't be surprised to find that this practice is largely due to
technical limitations in older typesetting systems and/or the conventions
of particular script styles. The question was raised recently during our
development of a set of fonts for biblical scholarship: I told the clients
they had a choice of whether to combine the holam and sin dots or to have
them separate. The clear preference was to have them separate. This was
possible because, following the convention of the sephardic style on which
the new font is based, the sin and shin dots do not sit at the *extreme*
left and right of the shin letter, so there is a little extra space into
which to insert a holam. This would be more difficult in an ashkenazic
style, and particularly difficult in older typesetting systems that would
not allow dynamic adjustment of holam relative to other marks.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
It is necessary that by all means and cunning,
the cursed owners of books should be persuaded
to make them available to us, either by argument
or by force. - Michael Apostolis, 1467
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