RE: Back to Hebrew - Vav Holam

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Everson
At 22:21 +0200 2003-07-29, Jony Rosenne wrote: With Hebrew, it is not accepted that it is a different Vav - letters used as matres lectionis are not distinct from the same letters used otherwise. Neither is it accepted that this is a different Holam. The only thing established is that this

Re: Back to Hebrew - Vav Holam

2003-07-29 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
Otherwise we would write Karljfrontedu/frontedrgen or the like. Actually, that would have been preferable to the way some of my official id actually appears :( K

RE: Back to Hebrew - Vav Holam

2003-07-29 Thread Peter_Constable
Jony Rosenne wrote on 07/29/2003 03:21:08 PM: The only thing established is that this artifact has been used in several manuscripts, one of many similar artifacts, to aid the understanding of the text. And the correct vehicle to convey such artifacts is markup. You say this as if it's

RE: Back to Hebrew - Vav Holam

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Everson
At 15:41 -0500 2003-07-29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jony Rosenne wrote on 07/29/2003 03:21:08 PM: The only thing established is that this artifact has been used in several manuscripts, one of many similar artifacts, to aid the understanding of the text. And the correct vehicle to convey such

Re: Back to Hebrew - Vav Holam

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Kirk
On 29/07/2003 12:38, Michael Everson wrote: At 22:21 +0200 2003-07-29, Jony Rosenne wrote: With Hebrew, it is not accepted that it is a different Vav - letters used as matres lectionis are not distinct from the same letters used otherwise. Neither is it accepted that this is a different Holam.

Re: Back to Hebrew - Vav Holam

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Kirk
On 29/07/2003 13:03, Karljrgen Feuerherm wrote: Otherwise we would write Karljfrontedu/frontedrgen or the like. Actually, that would have been preferable to the way some of my official id actually appears :( K And probably to what some software does with it. One of your recent

Re: Back to Hebrew - Vav Holam

2003-07-29 Thread Karljrgen Feuerherm
Peter Kirk wrote: On 29/07/2003 13:03, Karljrgen Feuerherm wrote: Otherwise we would write Karljfrontedu/frontedrgen or the like. Actually, that would have been preferable to the way some of my official id actually appears :( And probably to what some software does with it. One

Re: Back to Hebrew - Vav Holam

2003-07-29 Thread Peter Kirk
On 29/07/2003 16:37, Karljrgen Feuerherm wrote: Peter Kirk wrote: And probably to what some software does with it. One of your recent messages to this list came with the following line in its source: From: =?8859_1?B?S2FybGr8cmdlbg==?= Feuerherm [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Mozilla renders that