Re: Use of U+203D (interrobang)

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 18:42:47 CST

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    According to Alan Hoenig, the author of Makor2, a typesetting
    environment for Hebrew for Omega (Unicodified TeX):

    > By and large, Israeli punctuation matches that of the rest of the
    > world. One difference from American grammar is the frequent occurence
    > of the sequence `?!' to indicate some level of amazed incredulity.
    > Just for fun, I have included in my Hebrew fonts the `interrobang'
    > symbol ‽, which you get by typing either !? or ?!. Perhaps this symbol
    > will now sweep the world of Hebrew typesetting by storm‽ See below if
    > you want to typeset the usual sequence.

    (see
    http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/language/hebrew/makor/tex/makor2/mkr2man.pdf
    p.14)

    Believe that if you like. I'd say that rhetorical and surprised
    questions are very common at least in Talmudic and Rabbinic phraseology.

    ~mark

    Patrick Andries wrote:

    > http://www.tutoweb.com/blog/index.php wondered about the use of U+203D.
    >
    > I must say, I'm not too sure myself. Does anybody know ?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > P. .A
    >



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