Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Omar Loggiodice <olist AT newsfromgod.com>]

Peter Kirk wrote:
> On 13/02/2005 17:36, Jim West wrote:
>
> > Hi-
> > tell them to go here:
> >
> > http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
> Precisely. If these students are using Windows 2000 or XP with Word 2000 
> or later, they don't need any special fonts, but only a suitable 
> keyboard driver. Unfortunately the only Hebrew keyboard which comes with 
> Windows is based on the Israeli layout, which is unhelpful for those 
> with other labels on their keys. But Keyman offers an alternative 
> keyboard based on transliteration.
There is an XP keyboard driver for US-Keyboard layout at 
http://www.geocities.com/fontboard/hebrew.html
It is very good, and has a phonetical type of layout even for the nikkudot.

In the Holy Eucharist,
Omar

> However, the students will need special fonts, rather than the Microsoft 
> standard ones, if they want good results with pointed  Hebrew. Pointed 
> Hebrew is legible in Times New Roman, Arial etc, but the point holam is 
> wrongly positioned. So it makes a lot of sense to use SBL Hebrew as 
> recommended by Yitzhak, which comes with its own keyboarding solutions.
>
> In fact a special keyboard is not necessary for including just a few 
> words of Hebrew. These can be inserted from the Word Insert Symbol 
> dialog, with no special software required.

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