PASEQ is a word separator. SOF PASUQ is used as the equivalent of a period also in other writings, such as prayer books.
Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:04 PM > To: Unicode List > Subject: Hebrew Sof Pasuq etc (was: Unicode Public Review > Issues update) > > > On 25/07/2003 13:03, Rick McGowan wrote: > > >The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public > >review and comment. Details are on the following web page: > > > > http://www.unicode.org/review/ > > > >Review periods for the new item closes on August 18, 2003. > > > >Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. > >Briefly, the new issue is: > > > > Issue #12 Terminal Punctuation Characters > > > > > > > > > I was surprised to see U+05C3 # HEBREW PUNCTUATION SOF PASUQ > listed as > neither Terminal_Punctuation nor Sentence_Terminal. The main > use of this > character is to indicate the end of a verse in the Hebrew Bible > (although it is missing from the end of a few verses); I am > not aware of > any other use. It is certainly used only at the end of a > word, similarly > to colon, semicolon etc, and so should surely be classed as > Terminal_Punctuation. The same is true of U+05C0 # HEBREW PUNCTUATION > PASEQ. And from what Jony has just written, U+05BE # HEBREW > PUNCTUATION > MAQAF should also be treated as a word divider and so classed as > Terminal_Punctuation. > > Also, within the Hebrew Bible text which does not use full > stop or any > other sentence terminating punctuation, the only real analogue of a > sentence is a verse. So, at least in the context of the > Hebrew Bible, it > would be sensible to class U+05C3 (but not U+05C0 or U+05BE) also as > Sentence_Terminal. > > Maybe someone on this list can see a good reason for not giving these > properties to these characters. Unless someone can explain > one to me, I > will post this response formally to > http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html. > > -- > Peter Kirk > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/ > > > > >
