shaping rule? Re: proposals I wrote (and also, didn't write)

[Peter R. Mueller-Roemer]

E. Keown wrote: Elaine Keown Vancouver Dear Philippe and Lists: Hebrew code points are already in 2 blocks. If the UTC had done any kind of appropriate research in the late 1980s, they would have made the main Hebrew block larger. In the so-called 'deprecated' block, the 2nd Hebrew block in the BMP, are composed Hebrew points which I plan to go on using. And I expect everyone else to go on using them also, all Hebraists. We think they are needed for 'text representation' of shin and sin. In AraiUni.ttf the 1st Hebrew block works pretty well except that vowel-points and Hebrew accents do not combine under a consonant but the the accent seems to add a space, so that the single word wajalad (& (he) was born 8?)) looks like 2 words waja lad - ugly. I find it too cumbersome so keep 4 different single dots around to compose shin and sin with dagesh and hireq (possible in the 1st block). The precomposed shin, sin and others I was glad to find in the 2nd block, but they disappointed me because they refuse to be (pointed or) accented, so that I can't even copy the first verse from the bible (BHS) not even the first word! The segolat accent does not look close to the segol(at) vowel, it looks like a 3-dot reverse breve.  Are there any shaping rules in Unicode that I have missed? Word 2002 does confusing things to the cursor when entering Latin and Hebrew on the same line.  Outlook express and even  OpenOffice  do much better. Peter R. Mueller-Roemer I asked for a 3rd block so there will be fewer core blocks for Hebrew--I thought 2 blocks was already a lot to have to deal with. I don't think it's fair to have Hebrew 'spread all over the map.' in the SMP, in a separate Hebrew-Aramaic-Mandaic Extended block (including notably some punctuations signs or old numerals, or Is this proposed block from a new version of the Roadmap? I haven't read the Roadmap lately. Elaine __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com