Help with strange SHIN dot?

[DjR]

I'm working with a fairly (make that very) technical manuscript dealing with Hebrew grammar. Along the way, it describes the convention used in the so-called "Pseudo-Ben Naphtali" tradition for distinguishing sin from shin, which was a dot within either side of the letter.

I'm not sure how to manage this, though it may involve a kludge of some kind. Here's what I've got:



And here's what I want (doctored pic!):



Clearly the shin is fine (that's just a dagesh), but the sin is nuisance. Any advice? Or should I just "kludge" it?! Thanks for any help with this!

David.

[tiro_hudson]

This isn't something that is supported in the SBL Hebrew font, and I doubt if a general solution is something that could be rolled out and made use of very soon, so I suspect you are going to need to figure out a kludge for this.

I can imagine treating these dots within the letter as variant forms of the regular shindot and sindot, but coming up with a mechanism to access these forms in applications other than high-end page-layout tools would be difficult. Maybe in a couple of years....

[DjR]

Thanks - I will "kludge" away! I'll try to remember to post whatever solution I get here.

[tiro_hudson]

If you are feeling adventurous, you could make yourself a custom version of the SBL Hebrew font in which the shindot and sindot characters are placed within the letter as you describe. This would be a relatively easy customisation to make, and as the benefit that you would not need to encode this differently from typical shin plus dot combinations.

Contact me by email, and I'll explain what you could do: tiro[at]tiro[dot]com

[DjR]

Thanks so much for the offer -- will be in touch!

Update: The solution worked beautifully. Many thanks!

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