Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Henry Churchyard" <churchh AT usa.net>]

> From: "John Richards" <jhr AT universalist.worldonline.co.uk>

> This can be most easily done perhaps in a word processor by using
> the Special Paragraph symbols to be found in the Find and Replace
> feature of all word processors. It is just as well to remove the
> introductory OTA text before the first ~c of the actual Hebrew text
> at the same time.  [...]  Preparation of the BHS text   There are a
> few faulty long lines in the resultant text, due, it would seem, to
> the omission of line breaks in the OTA text.  Most people will
> probably also want to insert meaningful English Book Headings.  This
> can be done very easily with a word processor.

I would actually be very hesitant about doing anything at all to the
text in a word-processor (except for cosmetic beautification after the
very last stage of processing) -- unless you know in advance that your
word processor is an absolutely cast-iron-solid industrial-strength
plain-ASCII text-editor (something which I strongly doubt that
Microsoft Word is).  Your efforts would probably be better spent in
ensuring that you download the text as a straight raw binary download
in the first place.

The original form of the OTA BHS text as contained in the archive
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/bigpersonal/bhs-text.zip doesn't
have any lines longer than 60 characters, as verified with the
following AWK program:

{if (length($0)>x) {x=length($0)}};END{print x}

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