Editing Rashi (section)

=="Rashi script"==
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[[Image:Rashiscript.PNG|200px|thumb|The complete Hebrew alphabet in Rashi script [right to left].]]

The semi-cursive typeface in which Rashi's commentaries are printed both in the Talmud and Tanakh is often referred to as "[[Rashi script]]." Despite the name, Rashi himself did not use such a script: the typeface is based on a 15th-century Sephardic semi-cursive hand, postdating Rashi's death by several hundred years. Early Hebrew [[typographers]] such as the [[Soncino family]] and [[Daniel Bomberg]] employed in their editions of commented texts (such as the [[Mikraot Gedolot]] and the [[Talmud]], in which Rashi's commentaries prominently figure) what would become called "Rashi script" to distinguish the rabbinic commentary from the primary text proper, for which they used a square typeface.
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