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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   ≼≽   6.4.4 -- Macro 4: Underline Potential Kamatz Katan
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
6.4.4 -- Macro 4: Underline Potential Kamatz Katan
 

After running this macro, each underlined combination needs to be inspected to see if the kamatz is in an unstressed, closed syllable or if the sheva nach needs to be changed to a bold sheva na' vowel. Future work on this macro may include a programmatic way of determining these results.

Figures 24 and 25 show the result of running the text from Macro 3 through Macro 4 and then after the user decides if any of the kamatz marks or sheva marks need to be changed.

  • Underline any kamatz‑letter‑sheva‑nach combinations, such the 1st word (kor-ba-NO) in line 3 in Figure 24:
    קָרְבָּנ֞וֹ
    which does, in fact, contain a kamatz katan under the first letter ק (koof), so the word is changed in Figure 25 to
    קׇרְבָּנ֞וֹ

  • Underline any kamatz‑letter‑space combinations, such the following words found in line 1 in Figure 24:
    גָ֑ד
    and
    אֶלְיָסָ֖ף

    The kamatz found in these words is a kamatz gadol and so needs no change in its rendering.
    In Figure 24, none of the words falling into this search category need to be changed. It should be noted that the purpose of this search category is to find words, such as:
    וַיָּקָם
    so that it can be properly rendered as:
    וַיָּקׇם

Figure 24
Figure 24:
Macro 4: Identify potential kamatz katan or kamatz gadol followed by sheva na'

Figure 25
Figure 25:
Final result after inspecting Macro 4 text

 
 
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