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