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
6.4.6 -- Macro 6: No Phrase Spans Over One Line
One of the requirements of this author's formatting standard is to
prevent any ta'am phrase to be split over two lines.
Figure 28 shows the result of running the text from
Macro 5 through Macro 6.
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Insert a carriage return after every etnachta phrase.
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Insert seven spaces between each sof-pasuk mark and carriage
return. Using the terminology from Jacobson's "Chanting the
Hebrew Bible", both Level 1 phrases (siluk
and etnachta) are now consistently followed by seven
spaces and a carriage return.
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For each Level 1 phrase (which may or may not span more than one line):
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Find the end of the first line of the Level 1 phrase.
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Look for the last group of seven spaces on that line.
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Insert a carriage return after the seven spaces.
(Now, the next Level 1 phrase begins on the next line.)
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Find the end of the next line of text in the
Level 1 phrase being worked on.
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Look for the last group of seven spaces on that line.
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Insert a carriage return after the seven spaces.
(Now, the rest of the Level 1 phrase begins on the
next line.)
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Continue in this way until there are no more lines
of text to process in this Level 1 phrase before
moving on to the next Level 1 phrase.
Figure 28:
Macro 6: Insert a line break after the
last whole grammatical phrase on each line