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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "Rafe" and the vocal sheva.
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:55:41 -0800

On 20/01/2004 12:57, Jason Hare wrote:

I must have just been duped into thinking it was the same textual signal. It
looks the same, anyway! LOL

Jason

----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher V. Kimball" <kimball AT ntplx.net>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:16 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] "Rafe" and the vocal sheva.



Mesorah Publications, in its Artscroll prayerbook series (i.e. "Siddur

Eitz

Chaim") uses a rafe-like horizontal line above a sheva-ed consonant to
indicate a vocal sheva (sh'va na) except for the consonant that is the
first in the word. This is very helpful, but has nothing to do with a

rafe,

as I understand it.

Chris Kimball


I hope that for Unicode purposes we can make the same mistake that Jason has, and not have to define a new combining character which looks like a rafe but isn't one.

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Peter Kirk
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