Elaine Keown
in Austin
Dear John and main list:
Since this was on the main list, I guess it's ok
to reply there.
> Now, that said, I am very keen to have the Samaritan
> shin encoded, because
> this is used as a mark in the apparatus critici of
> the BHS and possibly
In the Dead Sea Scrolls, several other letters with
Palaeo-Hebrew shapes are used as paragraph etc.
markers.
So, if you wish, your shin could be submitted when
they are--Elaine
> other Bible editions (in BHS it used in citations of
> Pentateuchi textus
> Hebraeo-Samaritanus secundum). I'd be perfectly
> happy to see it encoded as
> a Letterlike Symbol, since it is being used as a
> symbol and not as a
> Samaritan letter.
>
> John Hudson
>
> Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
> Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> What was venerated as style was nothing more than
> an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty
> hand.
> - Orhan Pamuk, _My name is red_
>
>
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