Posted by:
John Hudson In the thread discussing
Furtive Patah, Avi wrote in response to my mention of an intended non-Biblical, retail version of the SBL Hebrew font (intended primarily for modern Hebrew use):
A few items which I will need follow below - will the 'modern' version of the font support these:
1] To be able to duplicate the vocalization oddities of words as they are in the Bible (i.e., the double vowel on 'Yerushalyim'; an occasional dagesh in an aleph or a resh)
2] To be able to form the vuv-holam combination both as a "holam maleh" as well as a "vuv haluma" (as Peter Kirk explains in his recent Unicode position paper)
3] To be able to place an "upper dot" on top of any letter (in medieval mss, this is often used to indicate abbreviations)
Yes, these should all be supported in the proposed font. Basically, the font would have the same functionality as the SBL Hebrew font minus the accents and with some marks slightly differently positioned.
