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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: prembach AT ourmail.ch
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew keyboard & font size
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:27:26 +0000

On 18/01/2006 20:16, Paul Rembach wrote:

...

After reinstalling Keyman and various keyboards, the font size problem
vanished but another input issue surfaced. Fortunately the answer to this
was found in the document 'Biblical Hebrew(SIL) keyboard manual' that is
part of the SIL Ezra font package where it states:

...

So. OpenOffice as suggested by Herman Meester or upgrade to
MSOffice/Word2003. Notepad can be used but even it is not perfect when
working with already existing multi language text.


It seems to me that this is a specific problem with this one keyboard. And that is found because this keyboard uses particular combinations of keys, probably mostly for input of Hebrew accents and other rare marks.

This is unlikely to be a problem with David Perry's Hebrew keyboard (see http://scholarsfonts.net/keybrds.html), which doesn't use strange keyboard combinations, and which four years after the release of the beta version still distributed still has accents "not yet implemented, except for the three above" (munah, ole and atnahta, for some odd reason). The following note is also still current after 3½ years:

Note 7/24/02: The Hebrew keyboard was originally created while I was running Windows 98. Since moving to Windows XP, I have discovered some bugs. It will be a while before I can fix it. When I do, I will post the information here.

This suggests this Hebrew keyboard is in fact not being supported, which is a shame as it has many advantages, and as the best alternative I know of seems to be the SIL keyboard which displays the bugs.

But it would be about an hour's work for someone to develop a simple MSKLC keyboard (for Windows 2000/XP) supporting biblical Hebrew (with a transliteration encoding) excluding accents, which could then be widely and freely distributed and solve the problem. Has anyone actually done this?

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Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
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