Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Trevor Peterson <06PETERSON AT cua.edu>]

There was a <em>brief</em> discussion recently on G-Megillot about this:

http://mailman.mcmaster.ca/mailman/private/g-megillot/0307.gz/msg00002.html

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics

>===== Original Message From Søren Holst <sh AT teol.ku.dk> =====
>Can I ask a partially off-topic question of all you software and Hebrew font
>gurus out there?
>
>A specific sign is customarily used to indicate a probable or uncertain
>reading of a letter in transcribing a manuscript, e.g. in Qumran studies but
>elsewhere too: A little circlet above the letter in question.
>
>How does one type the little critter?
>
>I'm usually writing in MS Word, inserting Hebrew by means of "Unitype Global
>Office" in a font called UT Hebrew David or alternatively UT Hebrew
>Frankruhl, but that's not so much a matter of choice as of being a blind hen
>pecking every which way to see if something works :-)
>
>So if something else is recommended, I'm listening.
>
>The immediate reason for asking is the preparation of an article which it'd
>be nice to have come out right if printed by someone the other side of the
>planet - little circlets and all :-)
>
>kol tuv
>Soren Holst
>Copenhagen
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