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  • From: "Christopher V. Kimball" <mail AT cvkimball.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Extraneous holam in Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex with SBL Hebrew font 1.11
  • Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:50:55 -0500



Samuel Arnet has pointed out that an extraneous holam appears in the text, most notably in the tetragrammaton.
This is a known problem with the SBL Hebrew font, version 1.11 .

From John Hudson, 11/4/2005 8:39 PM :
"There is a bug in the current version of the SBL Hebrew font (version 1.11 build 001) that causes a holam to appear on a letter when it is follows by a vav + a vowel mark. So, for example, in the sequence yod+vav+qamats a stray holam appears on the yod.
....
We are currently testing a fix for this bug, and hope to have a new build of the font ready for download from the SBL site very soon."

To see if you experience this problem, examine the tetragrammaton for a holam above the first he. If you don't have it, stay with your current SBL Hebrew font.





  • [b-hebrew] Extraneous holam in Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex with SBL Hebrew font 1.11, Christopher V. Kimball, 11/14/2005

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