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Printable keyboard layout chart, but I like Keyman because it has a popup

Tyndale has a keystroke for adding dagesh, and the final forms are all on the uppercase. Keyman also puts all letters w/ dagesh in the uppercase and has РІР‚ВsmartРІР‚в„ў final forms. The main thing is that Tyndale puts the vowels on English vowel letters, and Keyman puts them all on the number row. The Hebrew keyboards are very different as you can see in my examples below.I've noted some of the Greek differences above, and you can see them in practice in the examples below.How big of a difference is there between the Tyndale and Keyman keyboards?.

#Bibleworks keyboard pro#

The free version only allows for two keyboards to loaded (in addition to the native language), so if you want to type Syriac, Coptic, or Hieroglyphic, you either need to buy the Pro version or dis/enable keyboards. Is the one you want, and it includes both Hebrew and Greek. The program is installed, you load a keyboard. As of October 2014, however, Tavultesoft released the light version of Keyman Desktop 9 for free. Until just last October 2014, Keyman costР”Р„t least $20 for their light version, and students werenРІР‚в„ўt going to payР”Р‡or that when Tyndale was free. I like the Greek layout for accents better, it allows for accents and breathings after you type the vowel, and it has 'smart' final forms for both Greek (РџвЂљ) and Hebrew (Р§С™ Р§Сњ Р§Сџ Р§Р€ Р§Тђ). I bought licenses of their Desktop 8 Light version, and they work very well for me. That's all wonderful! I could live with the Hebrew keyboard, but I do not like the Greek keyboard it installs because it requires typing accents and breathings before you type the vowel, and accents and breathings require a variety of CTRL-ALT-Shift combinations. It installs the Cardo font automatically and handles the right-to-left enabling as part of the installation too.

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There are installers for various flavors of Windows and for Macs.

What I have been doing the last few years is have my students use the Tyndale Unicode Font Kit.

KEYBOARDS The situation is better but still not ideal. I'll still use Cardo for projection, but I use SBL BibLit in printed resources.

SUMMARY: We are installing both Cardo and SBL BibLit on all our systems. It's a beautiful font that looks great in print. There is a SBL Hebrew and a SBL Greek, but we are just installing the combined font set known as SBL BibLit. Here's where we can thank the Society of Biblical Literature and the groups that supported the creation of high-quality Greek and Hebrew Unicode fonts. Cardo looks rather chunky in printed form, however, especially when used with a typical serif font like Times New Roman. Further, Google obtained the rights to Cardo, so it transfers nicely back/forth from Google Docs. It's also nice because it contains Hebrew, Greek, and every transliteration character and text critical mark. Beginning students like it because it is easy to read. It's kind of a 'big' font (the characters are wider than usual and have a high x-height), so it works well in projection. We moved to Unicode a few years ago, and at that time David Perry's free Cardo font was really the best choice.

#Bibleworks keyboard update#

So, this post will be an update of that one with additional info.Р”Р‡ONTS The font situation is clear for us. I wrote about this matter back in September 2012, and since then, some things have changed and some not. Our seminary is getting new systems for the faculty! (Dell Venue Pro 8) That's great, but it also means we are revisiting what we are doing with fonts and keyboards for working with the biblical languages. And I find the Hebrew keyboard even more difficult to figure out.

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But for the new unicode fonts, I have to keep to hand printed sheets reminding me how to get accents and breathing marks in Greek. With the old SP fonts, I found the keyboard fairly intuitive. But I have to say that one complication is getting used to the keyboard. IРІР‚в„ўve now pretty much moved over to these fonts, having used them in several essays written during 2011. Then a few years ago, the Society of Biblical Literature (working with a number of other bodies) brought out new unicode fonts for Greek and Hebrew. So, they often didnРІР‚в„ўt transfer well from one computing platform to another. For many years I (with many others) used the old ScholarsРІР‚в„ў Press fonts for Greek, Hebrew and other languages, but the problem was that these were not РІР‚СљunicodeРІР‚Сњ fonts.