At 11:46 AM 7/24/2003, Peter Kirk wrote:
One of the specific issues he brought up was this one: how do you distinguish the holam-waw vowel combination from the consonant waw followed by the vowel holam?...
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.
The way to encode all of the things you mention is pretty straight-forward,...
But what is it? There is more than one option, so we all need to use the same one.
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.
...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.
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