On 31/07/2003 07:57, Ted Hopp wrote:
Peter, thanks for the example of a medial meteg from BHS. I have one text
that shows the same meteg (Lev. 21:10) to the right of the hataf patah, and
several that have no meteg at all, but none where I've been able to find a
medial or left meteg on a hataf vowel.
I'm wondering: are there examples of individual texts where metegs on hataf
vowels vary in position? For instance, in BHS, which clearly uses a medial
meteg, does the meteg also appear at times on the right or the left of a
hataf vowel? I'm wondering if this isn't just a style issue that need not be
handled by Unicode at all.
Ted
Yes, there are variations in BHS from place to place here. Here are
some statistics for the WTS BHS text which I got from Joan Wardell last
year: /meteg/ occurs 78 times centred in a /hataf vowel/ (but never
centred in /hataf patah/), six times to the left and twice to the right.
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Peter Kirk
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