From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 16:02:05 EDT
At 08:15 PM 7/30/2003, Ted Hopp wrote:
>Oh dear. That's what I was afraid you meant. In all those cases, I believe
>the correct interpretation is that the kholam is attached to the left of the
>preceding consonant (resh, lamed, zayin, yod, etc.), not to the alef. That
>the point appears to be over the alef is a typesetter's (or font designer's)
>decision based on aesthetics, or just irregular typography. It should
>certainly not be coded that way. (What I mean is: if we had a "right kholam"
>vowel that combined with its *preceding* base character on the right
>side--like shin dot--it would still be wrong to encode rosh as
><resh-alef-right kholam-shin-shin dot>.)
I agree. A potential 'right holam' mark should not be used for the weak
alef or for shin. There are already perfectly good mechanisms for handling
the repositioning of holam relative to the consonant preceding these and,
as Ted notes, the precise positioning relative to the two consonants is
discretionary but the holam is definitely understood to belong to the first
consonant, not the following alef or shin.
This is a different case from the vav, although until now we've been trying
to tackle the latter in the same way.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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