Talk:Hebrew punctuation

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A fact from Hebrew punctuation appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 12 June 2008.

[edit] Lack of internal punctuation?

This could not be more incorrect, and in fact HeWiki had a featured article on this subject recently (link). There are a number of Biblical internal punctuation marks. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 15:35, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

A sefer torah has no puncuation (ex. here). The puncuation system orignates in the 7th-11th centuries CE with the Masoretes. Is any of those punctuation marks not covered in the page currently? (talk) 04:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I was just saying that the statement was misleading - the Biblical marks are indeed covered (although I'd use images instead of unicode, because they appear as boxes on my setup). I'm not an expert on Biblical subjects, but the Hebrew Wikipedia says that the Biblical punctuation marks were likely developed long before the 7th-11th centuries. However, it says that they first appeared officially in the 7th-8th century. I just think this needs to be clarified. Perhaps you can check with other sources? I don't know any reliable ones personally. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 18:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I softed the comment a lot. I can put pictures next to the unicode in its own column (and still get to keep the unicode this way — plus newer config.'s shouldn't have this issue). Which unicode can't you see (maybe just MARK UPPER DOT and cantillation marks)? Epson291 (talk) 07:19, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, those are the ones I can't see. The mark upper dot isn't important, but it's a problem when a user can't see an entire section's worth of marks. By the way, I don't think the descriptions for the punctuation should be in all-caps. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 13:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I added a picture for the cantillation marks. I didn't have the time to do 30 seperate images though. It's in all-caps only for the reason that it is the names directly from Unicode.Epson291 (talk) 17:23, 13 June 2008 (UTC)