Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Steve Brailsford <Steve.Brailsford AT seagatesoftware.com>]

Can't we move to a html based email so that we can put the Hebrew fonts
right in the message?
All this transcription is impossible for those of us who are not fluent in
the original
text and I like to read these messages as practice in reading and
recognizing characters.
It's not much help for that as it is.  I would think people would have moved
to a modern
email reader that can handle at least html.

Steve Brailsford
Seagate Software
steve.brailsford AT seagatesoftware.com
(407) 531-7543


-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Rocine [mailto:596547 AT ican.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 1998 2:07 PM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Cc: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: readability


Dear Randall, 

Though "f" for a qamets(et. al.) seems to "fly" in the face of the
intuitively obvious, a number of folks on the list have expressed their
desire to move in the direction of a list standard which uses a
one-for-one, symbol-to-symbol transcription, and they are welcome to do so.
 As you have noted, it is important to give scriptural references where
possible, if for no other reason than to clarify transcription problems. 
We discussed reigning in our transcription methods a couple of moons
ago(available on our archives), with some folks advocating a freewheeling
phonetic transcription and some advocating rigid systems.   but
really...it's pretty hard to enforce one scheme in such a forum as this and
probably not worth it.  Anyhow, we kept gravitating more or less toward the
Michigan scheme.  Personally, I use the Michigan for few items but stay
away from others that I find ugly.  I probably don't transcribe two posts
exactly the same.   

mah la`asot?

uvraxot leka,
Bryan