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
6.4.4 -- 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.
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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:
Macro 4: Identify potential kamatz katan or
kamatz gadol followed by sheva na'
Figure 25:
Final result after inspecting Macro 4 text