On Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:17 PM, Peter Kirk wrote: > >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. > > > Yes, there are variations in BHS from place to place here. ...
*sigh* > ...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. But the example you posted earlier from BHS showed the meteg centered in a hataf patah. Ted Ted Hopp, Ph.D. ZigZag, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-301-990-7453 newSLATE is your personal learning workspace ...on the web at http://www.newSLATE.com/
