Consequently, it was suggested that the several issues with Biblical Hebrew recently mentioned, and several more which were not, should be solved by means of markup, outside the scope of Unicode. This is how they have been addressed in many of the references given. This is our recommendation.
Perhaps you would like to expand on this? What kind of markup? How would it interract with fonts and rendering engines? In the 'references' to which you refer, how many used Unicode text encoding? As far as I know, every current print edition of the Hebrew Bible has used non-standard 8-bit font hacks to render text. These are closed systems in which text encoding, markup and font switching interract directly. I'm not saying that markup cannot or shouldn't be the solution, but I know exactly how standard Unicode text works with script rendering engines and smart font technologies, but I don't see how 'markup' fits into the same systems. This may well be ignorance on my part, but I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting more detailed explanation of how you see this working.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The sight of James Cox from the BBC's World at One,
interviewing Robin Oakley, CNN's man in Europe,
surrounded by a scrum of furiously scribbling print
journalists will stand for some time as the apogee of
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