[Heb-NACO] correct transcription for "alif" and "ayin" diacritics

[Robert M. TALBOTT]

The "w" key is actually for a geresh, though I concede that hitting it
twice will render gershayim.  I don't think we have any explicit direction
with regard to geresh-key twice or quotation marks.  So far as I know, the
only difference between the two approaches is that the former requires two
characters while the latter uses a single character.  There may be other,
finer differences out and about.

It would be nice if we were all on the same page, and I happily profess
agnosticism with regard to the two choices.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Neil Manel Frau-Cortes <nfrau at umd.edu>
wrote:

> A quick reminder of shortcuts for these:
>
> Alif -- CTRL + ALT + dot
> Ayin -- CTRL + ALT + 0
> Dot below -- CTRL + ALT + R
> Acute for Sin CTRL + ALT + B
>
> Also, please remember that the gershayim for abbreviations are the Hebrew
> key under W, not the quotation marks.
>
>
>
> Neil
>
> Neil
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Heidi G Lerner <lerner at stanford.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I have received a few reports that some catalogers creating or
>> modifying Hebraica bibliographic and authority records have been using keyboard
>> apostrophe characters in lieu of the diacritics for alef and ayin.
>>
>>
>> The easiest way to prevent this while working in OCLC is to use the
>> diacritics table under the Edit tab. You can set a particular language to
>> display only those diacritics and special characters to that language.
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance for heeding this request.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely, Heidi
>>
>>
>> Heidi G. Lerner
>>
>> Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica
>>
>> Metadata Dept.
>>
>> Stanford University Libraries
>>
>> Stanford, CA 94305-6004
>>
>> ph: 650-725-9953
>>
>> fax: 650-725-1120
>>
>> e-mail: lerner at stanford.edu
>>
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>
>
> --
>
> *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D.*
>
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>
>
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>
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>
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>
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Bob Talbott

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