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Posted by: twuandy
         
Ken,
The immediate problem is to use a font that gives me the overdot and the
over hollow circle used so much in the DJD series and Revue de Qumran and
everywhere wher Dead Sea fragments are transcribed (but not in my book,
which uses underlinging to indicate letters in the fragments).  John told me
that he didn't include these two signs with his font.  I found - with your
help - the overdot at 05c4 (? I don't have the chart handy), but I still
don't have the over-circle.  I'm writing a critique of DJD 17 (the Samuel
fragments), and I have to quote their reconstructions, using those two
marks.  What do you recommend?  By the way, I got the Alt-X system to work
shifting backa and forth between the English and Hebrew keyboards.  There
seems to be an over-dot (it's called masora circle in the chart) at about
05a4, but when I enter it, I get something below, not above, the letter.



         

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Posted by: Ken Penner
         


         

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Posted by: John Hudson
         
Note that U+05C4, which was used for the generic above dot in the first public version of SBL Hebrew, has since been confirmed by Unicode as being intended to encode the upper punctum extraordinarium. So the new version of SBL Hebrew has changed to reflect this (and includes the new Unicode 4.1 character U+05C5 for the lower punctum).

For a generic combining dot, you should use the single above dot from the Unicode 'Combining Diacritical Marks' block: U+0307. This is included in the latest SBL Hebrew font and has been successfully tested in Word 2003. The manual explains that this should be used for the dot found in masora, and for indicating Hebrew letters used as numerals.

The SBL Hebrew font does contain a simple combining circle, U+05AF, but this is the masora circle, and is probably positioned too high for your purposes. I'm guessing that you want something that visually aligns with the generic combining dot. For this I would recommend the generic combining ring, U+030A. I will put this on my list of things to add to SBL Hebrew, along with appropriate positioning.
         

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Posted by: twuandy
         
John,
I'm not on my computer now, but - as I recall - 05aF seems to give
satisfactory results.
Andy


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>Unicode as being intended to encode the upper punctum extraordinarium. So
>the new version of SBL Hebrew has changed to reflect this (and includes the
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>For a generic combining dot, you should use the single above dot from the
>Unicode 'Combining Diacritical Marks' block: U+0307. This is included in
>the latest SBL Hebrew font and has been successfully tested in Word 2003.
>The manual explains that this should be used for the dot found in masora,
>and for indicating Hebrew letters used as numerals.
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>The SBL Hebrew font does contain a simple combining circle, U+05AF, but
>this is the masora circle, and is probably positioned too high for your
>purposes. I'm guessing that you want something that visually aligns with
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