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ZIGGY'S "YIDDISH PASEKH" SMART TRANSLITERATION KEYBOARD
Keyboard Usage Notes
NOTE: This is an old, outdated web page. Instead, please download the Yiddish Keyboard Layouts Installer and you will have the most current, updated instructions. This page is remaining on the web only temporarily - until the Yiddish Keyboard Layout installer will be available on CD for those who wish to avoid large downloads.
The following notes and instructions are based on documents and files which were generously contributed by the creator of this keyboard layout, Gyula "Ziggy" Zsigri. An explanation of Yiddish keyboard layout may be found on the previous page.
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How to use Yiddish Pasekh?
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STARTING UP
1. Start Keyman by double-clicking the Keyman shortcut (or by double-clicking from Start /
Programs / Tavultesoft Keyman / Keyman).
Tip: If you do not want to start Keyman every time then you can configure it to start with Windows. To do this, right-click on Keyman's icon on the task bar and select the Start with Windows option.
2. Click the keyboard layout indicator (the little blue box) on the Windows taskbar (lower
right on your screen) and switch to "Hebrew - Yiddish Pasekh." The
keyboard layout indicator will display HE instead of EN, and the Keyman icon in the lower
right Task Bar area of your screen will turn into a blue Pasekh Tsvey Yudn icon.
KEYSTROKES
Type Yiddish by transliteration: type shin with sh or pasekh tsvey yudn
with ay.
Khof, mem, nun, fey and tsadek are shaped automatically: they take their
final forms at the end of words and their regular forms otherwise. Isolated final forms
can typed with shifted keys:
Shift+C -> final tsadek
Shift+X -> final khof
Shtumer-alef is automatically inserted before ay, ey, i, oy, or u at the
beginning of words. You can type a word-internal shtumer-alef with Shift+A.
Hebrew-specific letters are typed with shifted keys:
Shift+B -> veys
Shift+H -> khes
Shift+K -> kof (Hebrew kaf)
Shift+S -> sof
Shift+T -> tof
Shift+W -> sin
Geresh is typed with Shift+G and curly double quotes are typed with the Q key. (*)
The opening quotation mark is low if Q is unshifted and high if shifted. (*)
The backslash key functions as a temporary place holder to separate
letters or parts of compound words. Type s\h to output samekh hey instead of shin,
or type ge\aylt to insert a shtumer-alef between the ayen and the pasekh-tsvey
yudn.
The hyphen key outputs a makef after a Yiddish letter and a hyphen otherwise. If, for some
reason, you need a hyphen after a Yiddish letter, press the hyphen key twice.
Tip: Some fonts have a poorly designed makef. Click here for examples of makef
in Microsoft fonts as compared to the minus sign. (The minus sign is the same as an
English hyphen.) Therefore, in certain fonts, you may wish to click the hyphen key twice
in the middle of a word to get a hyphen instead of a makef.
A hyphen after a hyphen turns the hyphen into an en dash.
A hyphen after an en dash turns the en dash into an em dash.
A geresh after a geresh turns the geresh into gershayim.
(*) [Click here to see
illustrations of garesh, gershayim, makef vs. hyphen, low and high Yiddish quotation
marks, etc.]
Occasionally, you may need initial ay, ey, etc. without a shtumer-alef,
e.g. when you want to list the letters of the alefbeys. You can type them with
the following key combinations:
Shift+E -> ey
Shift+I -> i
Shift+J -> ey (the name of J rhymes with ey)
Shift+O -> oy
Shift+U -> u
Shift+Y -> ay (the name of Y rhymes with ay)
Created by Gyula Zsigri
Fontboard: Fonts & Keyboards
http://www.geocities.com/fontboard/
http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/
January 14, 2002
Back to A Users' Guide to Yiddish on the Internet for an overview.
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