Well, *this* use of (pseudo-)rafe may be "a recent innovation, maybe imported from the Yiddish printers," for it is "certainly not a masoretic mark." This also implies dependence on a particular modern editor's judgment about which shevas are vocal, which may be different from the original Masoretic pronunciation.
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.
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