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About Hazzan Linda Sue Sohn
About Hazzan Linda Sue Sohn
About Hazzan Linda Sue Sohn  ≼≽  2011 Master's Thesis  ≼≽   Chapter 6  ≼≽   6.4 -- Proposed Formatting Standard   ≼≽   6.4.3 -- Macro 3: Sheva Na’  Is Bold
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.

  • Replace sheva under the first letter of a word with bold sheva na'.

  • Replace sheva under a letter‑with‑a‑dagesh with bold sheva na'.

  • Replace sheva under the first of two identical letters with bold sheva na'.

  • 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.

  • Replace second of two shevas in a row with bold sheva na'.

  • Fix Hashem's name - replace bold sheva na' under first letter of tetragrammaton with sheva nach.

Figure 23
Figure 23:
Macro 3: Mark sheva na' with bold sheva.

 
 
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