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In soc.culture.jewish on 14 Sep 1997 15:15:41 GMT
jl...@engin.umich.edu (Jacob Love) posted:

>In article <5vfr90$s...@winter.news.erols.com>,  <mei...@erols.com> wrote:
>>But that is the opposite of Micha's point.  His point is not that
>>Halacha require a particular level of precision in spelling, but that
>>whatever level we have, if it is sufficient for Halacha, why is it not
>>sufficient for codes? (I almost said 'It is not...' but I checked what

>> How hard would it be
>>to type in copies of these works?  If War and Peace is published in
>>Hebrew, someone had to type it at least once.  

>. To answer your real question, it is a lot of work to digitize
>a Hebrew manuscript. Much more so than a text which may already exist
>in some sort of digitized format (or which may be scanned in, which is
>not the case for Biblical codices) such as "War and Peace." To the best
>of my knowledge, only one Hebrew manuscript has been digitized, and
>even that one, not completely.

I agree with your concern for our sanity.  This one point should be
worth the time.  What is the difference between digitized format and
what results if one just types the text on a computer.  Aren't most
new books in Hebrew written on a computer or typeset using a computer.
Isn't this adequate for testing for codes. Do you mean something
different by digitized? .


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