About Hazzan Linda Sue Sohn
About Hazzan Linda Sue Sohn
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
6.4.3 -- Macro 3: Sheva Na’ Is Bold
All of the sheva vowels are marked with an unbolded
sheva mark. DavkaWriter has a second
sheva mark that is bolder. "Tikkun Kor'im-Simanim"
uses a bold sheva to mark sheva na'.
This macro uses the following rules to identify and mark each
instance of sheva na' with a bold sheva mark.
Figure 23 shows the result of running the
text from Macro 2 through Macro 3.
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Replace sheva under the first letter of a word with
bold sheva na'.
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Replace sheva under a
letter‑with‑a‑dagesh with
bold sheva na'.
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Replace sheva under the first of two
identical letters with bold sheva na'.
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Replace sheva after a long vowel
(cholam, cholam‑vav, tsere,
tsere‑yod, hirik‑yod) with
bold sheva na'. Kamatz‑gadol
cannot always be differentiated from kamatz‑katan
with these macros. Future work may seek to find a way to do this.
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Replace second of two shevas in a row
with bold sheva na'.
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Fix Hashem's name - replace bold sheva na'
under first letter of tetragrammaton with
sheva nach.
Figure 23:
Macro 3: Mark sheva na' with bold sheva.