# liblouis: Classical Hebrew, Fully cantillated, IHBC-McAllister # #-index-name: Hebrew, classical, cantillated #-display-name: Classical Hebrew braille with full cantillation # #+language: hbo #+language: oar #+language: arc #+language: jpa #+language: obm #+language: xdm #+language: phn #+type: literary #+contraction: partial #+system: IHBC-McAllister #+dots: 6 #-license: lgpl-2.1 # This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this file; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA # liblouis comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. # The first Hebrew Braille table hosted on LibLouis was developed by # the Library for the Blind and the Ministry of Education in # Israel. It is intended for use with Modern Hebrew. # Please see World Braille usage 3rd edition, p. 74. # # The tables hbo.utb, hbo-cantillated.utb, and hbo-slim.utb are # designed for Classical Hebrew (also called Biblical Hebrew). # Classical Hebrew contains vowels, punctuation, and cantillation # marks not used in Modern Hebrew. # # This table translates according to the system developed by # Ray McAllister, Matthew Yeater, and Sarah Blake LaRose in 2014. See: # <https://www.duxburysystems.com/biblical_scholar.htm> # This system builds upon the International Hebrew Braille Code, # maintaining all of its mappings for consonants and vowels and # adding support for all remaining cantillation and punctuation marks. # Thus, this code provides all information necessary for chanting # the text as well as reading it. # For the 1946 IHBC, see hbo.utb # For Hebrew without dagesh and shewa, see hbo-slim.utb # # All three tables forward-translate Hebrew and uncontracted English # and back-translate Hebrew. They provide access to critical editions # of the Hebrew Bible, such as Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and # Biblia Hebraicaa Quinta, as well as rabbinic and liturgical texts. # They also work for cognate languages that used the common Northwest # Semitic linear alphabet in antiquity, including Old and Imperial # Aramaic, Moabite, Edomite, and Phoenician (as, for example, in # the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum and Kanaanäische und Aramäische # Inschriften). # This code was first implemented in LibLouis by Matthew Yeater and Paul Geoghegan and further # developed by Eric J. Harvey with support from the national # Endowment for the Humanities (USA) and Stanford University. # Many thanks to Leonard de Ruijter and Sarah Blake LaRose for their # help developing and testing the tables, and to Abby Howell for # suggesting the inclusion of Yiddish characters and reviewing code. #-maintainer: Paul Geoghegan <contact@envisionly.tech> #-maintainer: Matityhau Yeshurun <yeatersink@gmail.com> #-maintainer: Eric J. Harvey <eric@blindscholar.com> #-author: Paul Geoghegan <contact@envisionly.tech> #-author: Matityhau Yeshurun <yeatersink@gmail.com> #-author: Eric J. Harvey <eric@blindscholar.com> # Copyright (C) 2024 Matt Yeater and Paul Geoghegan # Copyright (C) 2025 Eric J. Harvey # Include common characters include braille-patterns.cti include hbo-cantillated-rules.uti # punctuation back translation nofor always ׃ 256 nofor always ־ 36 nofor always ֔ 2 nofor always ֑ 23 # Further includes include digits6Dots.uti include litdigits6Dots.uti include latinLetterDef6Dots.uti include en-ueb-chardefs.uti # Braille indicators capsletter 6 begcapsword 6-6 endcapsword 56 numsign 3456 numericmodechars ., nocontractsign 56 nonumsign 56 numericnocontchars abcdefghij