From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 18:27:57 EDT
At 01:40 PM 7/24/2003, Peter Kirk wrote:
>>These are display issues, not encoding issues,...
>
>Not entirely. First I need to know what sequence of Unicode characters I
>should use to encode holam-waw and aleph with right holam. Garbage in,
>garbage out. Then I need to be sure that your sophisticated rendering
>system actually makes the required distinctions and is not confused by any
>rare cases.
In both these cases, the holam belongs to the preceding consonant, but is
contextually shifted onto the following alef, vav or shin. I wasn't aware
that this was in any doubt. So, for example the word for 'head' in Genesis
3:15 is encoded
resh + holam + zaqef qatan + alef + shin + shindot
The font takes care of shifting the holam from the left edge of resh over
the right side of alef.
>>There is a document currently available at
>>ftp://publisher.libronix.com/drop/Tiro/SBLHebrew-Distribution/SBLHebrew-MarkSequences.pdf...
>
>Actually it is not currently available. Fortunately I downloaded it yesterday.
No, it's still there, but you have to go directly to the PDF: you can't
navigate the directories.
>>...that displays every sequence of consonant + mark(s) that occurs in the
>>BHS text and the Westminster morphological database, with post-context
>>consonants. This doesn't give a perfect representation of what happens in
>>every circumstance...
>
>Maybe this is why it is missing an adequate representation of one of the
>commonest base character + mark sequence in the printed BHS text, holam +
>waw with the holam clearly shown above the right hand side of the waw. I
>am looking for example at your he - holam - waw sequences. The holam is
>shifted from the he onto the waw as I think it should be, but its
>positioning over the waw looks to be the same as in the waw - holam
>sequences (where there is no interference with cantillation marks). At
>least the distinction is nothing like as clear as in Genesis 4:13 in the
>printed BHS.
I'm looking into this. The substitution should result in a clear
distinction, but there may be a problem in the lookups. I'll send you a PDF
offlist once I have confirmed that it is working properly.
Regards, John
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