In no case are the secondary vowels simply 'squeezed between'; correct rendering always requires mark positioning. Consider the example cited by Peter Kirk from Exodus 20:4, 10th word, in which you have the sequence <qamats, etnahta, patah> following tav. This is correctly rendered with the sequence of three marks centered under the tav.
This example is in fact different from ALL of the others mentioned in the last few days. Here, uniquely, the two vowels qamats and patah are indeed both related to the consonant tav, as alternative (rather than successive) vowel sounds. In the other cases you will, in general and depending in detail on the edition, see that the first vowel of the sequence is centred under the consonant, and the second one is displaced to the left, more nearly under the narrow space between the consonants, e.g. as you say "a secondary vowel on the line where the left sidebearing of the lamed hits the right sidebearing of the mem".
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
