Good point, Ted. We do need a way to display holam male in isolation, although it is never normally word initial in Hebrew. Arguably we also need a way to display it with additional vowel points, for the divine name is sometimes written like that, see the attached which is scanned from BHS. So, although I tend to prefer the contextual lookup method, it is not without its problems. But perhaps we can get round this by saying that a sequence like holam - ZWJ - vav should always be taken as holam male, but holam - ZWNJ - vav should never be, whatever the contextual rules. But then even these sequences are illegal at the start of a word so we would need something different there.... We'd also need to figure out how to handle creating a holam male at the start of a line, surrounded by spaces, etc. We'd have to give up on the possibility of writing one holam male after another in any simple way. If it can be made to work under those conditions, it may be a viable alternative.
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
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