John Tiro has created a very complete free Unicode-encoded Hebrew font modeled on early, traditional Hebrew type designs for the Society of Biblical Literature.
As the society's name indicates, the font includes trup, vowels, and even the Yiddish composites. I look forward to hearing from folks how well this works in practice in setting Torah portions with trup.
A User's Guide to Yiddish on the Internet. A great resource. When you install Hebrew resources on a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, the layout defaults to one based on Israeli Hebrew typewriters. There are a host of utilities to change the layouts to ones that are more phonetic, or to work around awkwardnesses in the way each platform accesses vowels or special Yiddish characters. I will include links to such utilities where I know them, but my own practice has been to simply learn the standard keyboard.
Then, on almost any computer with Hebrew resources, I can type. For Windows , the following pages seem to provide the most coherent, easy-to-follow directions:.
The most common problem beginners encounter when typing in Hebrew or Yiddish other than figuring out how to use the cursor and delete keys, which now work backwards is what happens at the end of the sentence. You press the "period" or other punctuation mark and the mark displays on the wrong side of your sentence. You try again, being careful to use the punctuation from the Hebrew keyboard layout and the same thing happens. You give up and start your next sentence and the punctuation magically moves to the right location.
The default in most word processors is to assume that paragraphs are in English, even if you are currently typing Hebrew or Yiddish. Therefore, when you get to punctuation, the computer first defaults to showing the punctuation as it would properly appear if you were typing a bit of Hebrew or Yiddish in the middle of an English paragraph.
There is a simple solution. These layouts come from a microsoft site that provides keyboard layouts for all microsoft keyboards: www. You'll notice that the popup with the keyboard layouts works with Internet Explorer, but not Mozilla. Use of these layouts for Hebrew and Yiddish is an awful kludge. The first part is simple. Use your mouse to change to Hebrew mode.
In Hebrew mode the unshift keyboard has all of the old Hebrew typewriter keys. If you are typing Hebrew without vowels, this is the easiest way to go. Thank you very much. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. I suspect that your user is a 'reserved user' in the settings, and you need to 'extend' the setting you have recently created to your user account. Do one of the following: To copy the current settings to the default user account, select the New user accounts check box. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to kommerenDj's post on August 14, So near and yet so far: At one point I actually saw a language bar at the top of the screen and selected "Hebrew.
I clicked the Admin Tab and clicked Copy settings. I did not need a password. I tried copying settings to the default user account by selecting the New User check box. This was after I tried double clicking the Hebrew Keyboard option on the General tab.
Where it says to select a default language it is now defaulted to English, as I'm afraid that I'll use my English language settings. I want Hebrew as a secondary keyboard only. Is this the problem? Under the Region and Language tab called Language Bar tab I have checked off "Show additional language bar icons" and "show text labels," as well as "Docked in Taskbar"; none of checkboxes has any effect.
I'd be very grateful to hear from you again. This site in other languages x.
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