[b-hebrew] Extraneous holam in Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex with SBL Hebrew font 1.11

Christopher V. Kimball mail at cvkimball.com
Mon Nov 14 10:50:55 EST 2005



Samuel Arnet has pointed out that an extraneous holam appears in the 
text, most notably in the tetragrammaton.
This is a known problem with the SBL Hebrew font, version 1.11 .

 From John Hudson, 11/4/2005 8:39 PM :
"There is a bug in the current version of the SBL Hebrew font (version 
1.11 build 001) that causes a holam to appear on a letter when it is 
follows by a vav + a vowel mark. So, for example, in the sequence 
yod+vav+qamats a stray holam appears on the yod.
     ....
We are currently testing a fix for this bug, and hope to have a new 
build of the font ready for download from the SBL site very soon."

To see if you experience this problem, examine the tetragrammaton for a 
holam above the first he. If you don't have it, stay with your current 
SBL Hebrew font.





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