On 19/07/2004 03:20, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
Agreed. But then there are a few characters which are not combining marks but which are really part of the accent system and so should perhaps be stripped when points are removed: 05C0 paseq/legarmeh, which should be deleted; and 05BE maqaf, which should be replaced by a (word dividing) space. For 05C0 is an annotation which certainly has no place in an unpointed text; and in an accented text whether two words are separated by maqaf or space depends on their accentuation, and space is always used in unaccented texts....
Jony's right: when it's down to brass tacks in Hebrew, it's consonants and whitespace (and punctuation, I guess).
Within the biblical text it would also be logical to delete 05C3 sof pasuq, but its use elsewhere as punctuation suggests otherwise.
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