From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2007 - 11:47:34 CDT
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> Reread what I said: I did not speak about an Arabic-language reference text
> but about the Aranbic-script reference text, just to say that I had doubts
> that the Hebrew points and marks were drawn first before the Arabic text
> (=the sequence of Arabic base characters, not Arabic-language words).
And I didn't say that the red Hebrew points were written before the Arabic text; I said
they were written before the green marks. Sorry if this was said in any way that was
confusing. Of course the letters were written first:
Letters -> red marks -> green marks
JH
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