{"id":254,"date":"2012-06-14T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-06-10T12:53:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T16:53:52","slug":"computer-aided-proofreading-type-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/2012\/06\/14\/computer-aided-proofreading-type-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer-aided proofreading: type 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

When proofreading, you need to make sure every letter is present; one letter too many or too few invalidates the sefer.<\/p>\n

One method of proofreading involves two people; a Reader has a tikkun and a Sofer has the klaf. The Reader reads the letters from the tikkun one by one, and the Sofer checks them off.<\/p>\n

Proofreaders know that one of the problems of proofreading is you often see what you expect to be there, not what actually is there. Checking off a string of letters fed to you by a reader more or less eliminates this problem. <\/p>\n

There’s still chance for human error though – misspeaking, mishearing, losing the place, saying \u201chang on a minute” when marking an error and needing to re-establish the place afterwards, going too fast and missing bits, going too slow and wasting time. <\/p>\n

This is why I had a friend write me a program which plays the part of the Reader. He called it the scribomatic, which I find vastly pleasing. I have the Torah text in my computer; I copy and paste in the portion of text I want to check, the scribomatic reads the letters one by one, and I check them off on the klaf as we go.
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A funny thing about checking the letters like this is that you completely lose track of where you are in the Torah.<\/p>\n

When you’re writing, you say the words out loud as you’re going along. You’re going very slowly, so you might forget what was happening a few paragraphs before, but you know what’s happening in the part you’re writing.<\/p>\n

When you hear the letters coming at you, one after the other, and you’re focusing on them as individual letters and not as words, as a string and not as a text, you don’t have that awareness. At least, I don’t. Try it with a friend and a lump of English sometime, see what you make of it. It’s very interesting, I think \u2013 yet another perspective on the Torah text that I wouldn’t have suspected was there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When proofreading, you need to make sure every letter is present; one letter too many or too few invalidates the sefer. One method of proofreading involves two people; a Reader has a tikkun and a Sofer has the klaf. The Reader reads the letters from the tikkun one by one, and the Sofer checks them … Continue reading Computer-aided proofreading: type 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proofreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/cbh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}