For teaching purposes (e.g. talking about the language rather than composing in the language, say for a first year textbook and study aids) I prefer to show the Hebrew vowel patterns without particular consonants. My old broken ASCII font gave me a box the size of a Hebrew consonant that would hold any vowel, dagesh, or accent mark, just like a consonant. Is there a good way to do this with Ezra SIL, with or without the Hebrew SIL keyman? I’ve tried a couple of painful ways to get the dotted circle with a vowel, but the system really doesn’t like this, and doesn’t seem to keep things in sequence. Also the dotted circle is visually unappealing, as Hebrew has enough dots already.
Related, my broken ASCII font also let me combine English characters and Hebrew vowels, so that, e.g., I could type a “G” to represent guttural letters, and then place the Hebrew vowels below the G, or a P to represent any prefix and apply the desired vowel, or for Chinese we used Q (the Roman letter from the pinyin) to do the same thing in the Chinese edition of the Hebrew Grammar. Is there any way to combine Ezra vowels with Roman characters?
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