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  • From: "Christopher V. Kimball" <kimball AT ntplx.net>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Improvements to the Unicode/XML Tanach. (21 May 2004)
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:09:41 -0400



A number of improvements have been made to the site at

http://users.ntplx.net/~kimball/Tanach/Tanach.xml .

Changes often induce errors, please let me know as they come up.

The morphological division marks are now included in the XML files. That is, the transcribed text includes all of the textual items in the input WLC text. Consequently, the XML content tag and its subtags, qere, ketiv, vowels, cantillation, pesamekh, eol, notes, and morphologicaldivisions has been eliminated. This and all future versions will have full content.

Significant improvements to the display have been made. A new "Content" switch on a book page provides 4 choices of characters to be displayed. The default "Accents" value displays the consonants, vowels, and cantillation marks. The "Vowels" value displays consonants and vowels; the "Consonants" value displays only the consonants. For clarity, the sof pasuq and the maqaf are considered as consonants. Further, the value "Morphology" displays all possible content: consonants, vowels, cantillation marks, and morphological dividers.

The former "View" switch has been relabeled "Layout". In addition to the previous "Verses" and "Chapters" values, it now contains a "Simplified" value. With the "Simplified" value the text display is similar to that of the "Chapters" layout but without ketib entries, pe/samekh markers, notes, and chapter/verse numbers.

The number of right-to-left marks (u+200f) in the text has been reduced. This facilitates highlighting, copying, and pasting of the text onto UTF-8 applications.

The Excerpt feature now works correctly in Netscape, Mozilla, and FireFox browsers.

Chris Kimball





  • [b-hebrew] Improvements to the Unicode/XML Tanach. (21 May 2004), Christopher V. Kimball, 05/21/2004

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