From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 23:41:42 EST
On 11/24/03 20:56, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
>
>"Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org> wrote:
>
>
>>This approach would certainly have simplified pointed Hebrew a lot, so
>>much so that it could well be serious. After all, Ethiopic was encoded
>>as a syllabary just because the vowel points happen to have become
>>attached to the base characters. And we already have some precomposed
>>Hebrew syllables, FB1D, FB1F, FB2E, FB2F. But I guess it is too late for
>>a change now!
>>
>>
>
>Please don't even think of it - acceptance of any proposal for precomposed
>characters for one script would open the floodgates for similar proposals for
>other scripts.
>
I really don't think this is a good model for Hebrew anyway. Besides,
if you think the weird exceptions of Biblical typesetting are a pain
with the current cons+vow model, imagine what a nightmare they'd be with
precomposed syllables.
~mark
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