[Biblical-languages] Hebrew with Aramaic, Phoenician etc in scholarly publications

Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
Wed Jul 16 07:00:42 EDT 2003


On 16/07/2003 05:10, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote:

>I would expect that to be the major legitimzing issue. I can't speak for
>what is presently in journals, but from a theoretical standpoint, one should
>consider the ease with with a scholar might write on the development, for
>example, of those writing systems and wish to integrate various ones in one
>monograph.
>
Within reason, I'm sure. But we can't expect every minor development to 
have a different Unicode block. If an author wants to write e.g. "In 6th 
century Damascus the shape of aleph was ... but in 5th century Palmyra 
it was ... , note that the descender is a little longer", then the 
author is going to have to use images, or possibly font changes.

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Peter Kirk
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