Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 10:36:56 EST

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    At 07:11 -0800 2003-12-24, Elaine Keown wrote:

    >In the Dead Sea Scrolls, several other letters with Palaeo-Hebrew
    >shapes are used as paragraph etc. markers.

    Those would be Phoenician letters with RTL directionality used as
    markers in a traditional text. (That is given the current Roadmap
    which unifies Palaeo-Hebrew and Phoenician.)

    >So, if you wish, your shin could be submitted when they are--Elaine

    The Samaritan shin is an LTR clone of, um, the Samaritan shin used in
    Western Biblical references.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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