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select “Keyboard layout.” Make sure that “Enable keyboard layouts” is selected.

KDE (versions 3 and 4) have a keyboard switching applet. The default X11 distribution comes with a Biblical Hebrew keyboard layout.

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Image: ALT-CTRL SHIFT (Level 4) Biblical Hebrew (Tiro) Keyboard Layout from the Biblical Hebrew (Tiro) Keyboard Manual v.1.5 by John Hudson (Copyright 2007) Instructions for Installing a Hebrew Keyboard Layout on GNU/Linux Here is the keyboard mapping for the four levels of the keyboard: The fourth level contains punctuation and is accessed using SHIFT+ALT+CTRL keys. The third level contains additional punctuation and diacritics and is accessed using the ALT+CTRL keys. The second level contains vowels and cantillation marks and is accessed using the SHIFT key. The first level is the default level with all of the letter forms and numbers. The images below from John Hudson’s Biblical Hebrew (Tiro) Keyboard Manual provide a reference to which glyphs correspond to which keys on the keyboard. On-screen keyboards come shipped with your Operating System: You can see the characters available to type if you use an on-screen keyboard as you press SHIFT or ALT. On-screen keyboard programs are useful to see the different characters available at each level of your keyboard. There are four levels to the Hebrew keyboard that you can access. We recommend LibreOffice as a cross-platform and open source Unicode text editor. This sets an invisble RTL code at the end of the line, so periods and other punctuation should now display correctly. To do so, use the “End” key to move to the end of the line, and press ALT+CTRL 9. With your Hebrew keyboard layout selected, you can always place an invisible mark at the end of your paragraph identifying your text as RTL. Text editors need to be told to display text as RTL (right-to-left) text.

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When you notice you’re punctuation misaligned and misplaced, you should know why that’s happening and how to fix it. Once you start typing, you should know the following rule: when typing a letter containing a dagesh and a vowel or some other diacritic, first type the letter, then the dagesh, then the additional diacritical mark or marks. (pro-tip: In Windows, you can toggle between your default language and Hebrew by pressing ALT-SHIFT.) To learn the Hebrew keyboard layout, take note of the images at the bottom of this page.

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( check here for support.Īfter the install routine completes, open up a capable text editor such as LibreOffice and try out your Hebrew keyboard. Installing the keyboard layout in Windows is as simple as running the install file. Linux users can add this keyboard simply by going to their Keyboard settings and following the instructions at the bottom of this post. Within the font pack are keyboard layouts suitable for Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X. (Make sure to right-click rather than left-click, otherwise you won’t see the install font option and you’ll have to select them all again using CTRL-A.) Then right-click on any of the highlighted fonts and select “install font”.(Alternately you can click edit on the windows toolbar and select, “select all”.) To select all of them at once use CTRL-A. The search will list all of the fonts in their separate directories.

Type *.ttf (asterisk dot ttf) as your search keyword. To search and find all of the TTF files in the unzipped directory of fonts, use CTRL-F.If you’d like to install all the fonts in the font pack at once, follow these instructions: We’ve provided a special font pack containing perhaps the largest collection of open source licensed Unicode Hebrew fonts that exist. Ezra SIL SR, Cardo, and Taamey Frank CLM are excellent fonts in the Open Siddur font pack to install.

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The instructions presented below refer to the layout designed by John Hudson known as the “Biblical Hebrew (Tiro) Keyboard.” Install Unicode Hebrew Fontsīefore you setup your keyboard layout for Hebrew, make certain to install a font that supports the full Biblical Hebrew Unicode vowel set (Unicode 4.1 or above).

This is the case with the the “SI-1452” layout, the default Hebrew keyboard layout that comes with many systems (including Windows and GNU/Linux/X11). It’s important to note that not all Hebrew keyboard layouts support all the diacritical marks available in the Unicode Hebrew code range. All you need is to install a Hebrew keyboard layout and a set of Hebrew fonts supporting all of those diacritical marks.

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Also, one doesn’t need to purchase any expensive software to type in Hebrew with all of its special vowels, cantillation marks, and punctuation. You don’t need to buy a new keyboard with Hebrew keys in order to type in Hebrew.