>>There may be very good reasons for encoding holem-waw as other than a holem followed by a waw.
I agree, but I don't think we have options other than holem first or holem last. In SIL Ezra, we encoded the entire holem-waw as a single glyph - a vowel. But then found out later there was disagreement about whether one could *know* if a waw with a holem above it really was a consonant or a vowel. Is this your concern? Joan Wardell NRSI-SIL
