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About Hazzan Linda Sue Sohn
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About Hazzan Linda Sue Sohn  ≼≽  2011 Master's Thesis  ≼≽   Chapter 6  ≼≽   6.4 -- Proposed Formatting Standard   ≼≽   6.4.1 -- Macro 1: Font And Spacing
2011 Master's Thesis
New Orthographic Methods For Teaching Novice Hebrew Readers

Quick links to thesis chapters:
Chapter 6. Classical Hebrew Text Appearance For Novice Readers
6.4 -- Proposed Formatting Standard
6.4.1 -- Macro 1: Font And Spacing
 

The following steps describe the individual steps to modify the font, change the spacing between phrases, words and lines of text, and reduce the size of the Hebrew verse number. Figure 21 shows a sample result of running this macro.

  • Set font to "FrankRuhl".

  • Set point size to 24.

  • Align text to the right-hand margin.

  • Set line spacing to "triple" (3.00).

  • Insert three extra spaces after each disjunctive ta'am (zakef-katon, etnachta, segol, revia, ger'shayim, zakef-gadol, t'lisha-g'dolah, pazer, pazer-gadol, geresh).

  • Insert three extra spaces after every word (this results in four spaces after each conjunctive ta'am and seven spaces after each disjunctive ta'am).

  • Fix each makef, so there is only one space before and after it.

  • Fix legarmeh ta'am, so there is only one space between the word and its p'sik.

  • Delete the פ that identifies an open paragraph in the Torah scroll (parashah p'tuchah) (see Jacobson's "Chanting the Hebrew Bible", p. 381).

  • Fix bracketed words. DavkaWriter brackets k'rey words, instead of k'tiv words. Switch the brackets, so the k'tiv words are bracketed, instead of the k'rey words. Remove the nekudot from the k'tiv words and reduce the point size to 16 points to differentiate k'tiv words from the rest of the text.

  • Remove spaces between the last word in a verse and its 'sof pasuk' mark.

  • Set Hebrew verse numbers to 16 points.

Figure 21
Figure 21:
Macro 1: Modify font and spacing

 
 
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