Elaine: Thanks for the clarifications. I'm barely a novice in this area, but trying to learn.
On 12/09/2002 11:03:30 AM ekeown wrote: >THIRD: Close reading of Yeivin, Dotan, Weil, Breuer, and the other >masters periodically reveals different opinions among them... >FOURTH: In addition, experts have varying amounts of interest and >different kinds of interests in the te'amim (the so-called "accents")-- >people who compare many manuscripts look at them differently >from people who want to write computer algorithms with them... Does this have any implications regarding the issue as to whether there is another distinct accent needing to be encoded? Of those that have an interest in the te'amim, is there general consensus that there was a distinction made in at least some manuscripts? - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
