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alphabetic Ugaritic: word divider error; h displaying as ḫ #381

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  • Nammu's version: nammu-1.0.1.jar
  • Java version: java version "11.0.1" 2018-10-16 LTS
  • Computer Platform: OSX 10.13.6

@JacobLauinger and I have been working on editing texts in alphabetic Ugaritic (uga-040) using Nammu. We are following the Oracc documentation:

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/doc/help/languages/ugaritic/index.html

Two issues have emerged:

  1. The alphabetic cuneiform word divider is flagged as an error. The convention in the field is to use "." but the documentation demands "|". Neither worked. We deleted the word dividers and built the text, but we will need to put them back once the issue is resolved. I went to do a screen grab of the text with the error code, but the checker is not working at the moment; I'll append an example later.

  2. Unlike Akkadian cuneiform (akk), Ugaritic has both phonemes/graphemes /h/ and /ḫ/. We need to be able to input /h/ and have it display as /h/ NOT as /ḫ/ in uga-040. For example, the text KTU3 2 11 (RS 8 315) X000001 has the lemma "hnny" which should display as "hnny" NOT "ḫnny".
    KTU3-2-11_h-h_-problem

Many thanks!

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