Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>]

On 18/07/2003 11:28, Trevor Peterson wrote:

> > ===== Original Message From Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net> =====
> > When it comes to words like yerushalaim, I have typed this word dozens of
> > times in a regular TTF simply by a little creative use of the furtive patah.
> > Most fonts that I know of include variations on the vowel points in order to
> > align with narrow letters and such, and I would hope that Unicode fonts do
> > something similar.  So I suspect that the means to resolve these minor issues
> > already exists without creating a whole new set.
> >    
>
> Peter can probably give a more intelligent answer here, but in my limited 
> experience using Unicode fonts so far, I don't think there are alternate forms 
> of vowel points built in. But if I understand correctly, the issue here is not 
> whether multiple points will fit but what order they come out in. It sounds 
> like there's something in Unicode that automatically sorts these multiple 
> "diacritics" in a certain order, so that they end up misconfigured.
>
> Trevor Peterson
> CUA/Semitics
>
>
>  
I wish I had been able to summarise it so well, Trevor.

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