On 25/07/2003 05:14, Kent Karlsson wrote:
A possible solution to the particular problem at hand that
hasn't yet been mentioned (that I've noticed), is to use the
already encoded vowel characters for the most part (also
for biblical texts), but use new "biblical" vowels only for the
occurrences where they occur as *second* vowel (with an
implied invisible consonant): HEBREW SECOND VOWEL HIRIQ,
etc. (Strikes me as rather elegant, though it requires the
addition of new characters.)
/kent k
At first sight this looks like a good alternative proposal. It would be
acceptable to me as long as their use is clearly defined, and the word
BIBLICAL is not part of their name. So far I have only documented sheva,
hiriq and patah being used as "second" vowels, also holam in
וַיִּקְבְֹּר 2 Ki 21:26 which came to my attention yesterday, but there
may be cases which I have not seen. So potentially all eleven Hebrew
vowels will need to be duplicated.
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Peter Kirk
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