Galaxie Hebrew (Mnemonic) Keyboard Help
Overview
Hebrew Keyboard
Keyboard Layout
Quickstart
Examples
Keyboard Details
Technical Information
Authorship
Overview
This Keyman keyboard is designed for Biblical Hebrew, a Semitic language of the ancient Near East and the language of the Hebrew Bible. It is a mnemonic Keyman keyboard. This means that the arrangement of the letters in the Keyman keyboard will depend on the order of the keys on your hardware layout.
This keyboard has been optimised for use with the following hardware layouts:
- AZERTY French
- QWERTY UK
- QWERTY US
- QWERTZ German
This keyboard includes an On Screen Keyboard view, which displays best on a QWERTY US layout.
This keyboard works with standard Unicode fonts.
Keyboard Layout
QWERTY US : Unshifted
QWERTY US : Shifted
QWERTY UK : Unshifted
QWERTY UK : Shifted
AZERTY : Unshifted
DROITE
DROITE
AZERTY : Shifted
DROITE
DROITE
QWERTZ : Unshifted
QWERTZ : Shifted
Quickstart
This Keyman keyboard works intuitively with a Latin-letter hardware layout. You can usually find Hebrew letters on this keyboard by typing the equivalent Latin letter. For example, type D*g to get דָּג.
Vowels and diacritical marks are typed after the letter. They can be typed in any order. For example, דָּ can be typed d?* or d*?. As you can see, a dagesh ( ּ ) can be typed two ways — with ? or by using the Shift key.
To get the standard keystroke for a key instead of Hebrew output, type + before the character (e.g. to get [ instead of ף type +[).
Keyboard Details
Letters
The Galaxie Hebrew Mnemonic keyboard uses an intuitive system where most of the Hebrew letters are matched to equivalent Latin letters.
Example: typing q produces ק.
Example: typing o produces וֹ.
Some Hebrew letters have no English match. These have been assigned the remaining keys.
Example: typing x produces צ.
Example: typing c produces שׂ.
When followed by a Space, Tab, or Enter, letters automatically take their word-final form.
Example: typing kSpace produces ך .
Example: typing mEnter produces ם.
To prevent a letter from taking a final form, use Ctrl+Space.
Example: typing xSpace produces ץ , but typing xCtrl+Space produces צ .
Example: typing pSpace produces ף , but typing pCtrl+Space produces פ .
Final forms also each have a dedicated key.
Example: typing H produces ץ.
Example: typing / produces ן.
Dagesh can be typed using ? or with Shift+ the letter.
Example: typing Shift+b produces בּ.
Example: typing r? produces רּ.
To get the standard Latin keystroke for any key instead of Hebrew output, type + first.
Example: typing +{ produces {.
Example: typing ++ produces +.
Vowels + Diacritics
The Galaxie Hebrew keyboard includes the following vowels and diacritics.
| Name | Character | Keys |
|---|---|---|
| Sh'wa | ְ | = or Ä |
| Hiriq | ִ | ! |
| Tsere | ֵ | @, ä, ¨ or é |
| Segol | ֶ | # or è |
| Hatef Segol | ֱ | $ |
| Qubuts | ֻ | % |
| Patakh | ַ | ^ |
| Hatef Patakh | ֲ | & |
| Qamats | ָ | * |
| Hatef Qamats | ֳ | ( |
| Holam | ֹ |
) |
| Raphe | ֿ | _ |
| Dagesh or Mapiq | ּ | ? |
| Ole | ֫ | ` or ² |
| Mahpach | ֤ | ´, ~ or é |
| Meteg | ֽ | \ or ° |
Vowels and diacritical marks are typed after the letter. They can be typed in any order.
Example: typing d?* or d*? produces דָּ.
On European hardware layouts where `,´,^,~, and/or ¨ already function as deadkeys, you'll need to type a Space after just those keys in order to get the proper vowel or diacritic.
Example: typing b´Space on a German QWERTZ keyboard produces ב֤.
Punctuation
The Galaxie Hebrew keyboard includes the following Hebrew punctuation.
| Character | Character | Keys |
|---|---|---|
| Comma | , | , |
| Sof Pasuq | ׃ | . |
| Full Stop | . | > |
| Geresh | ׳ | ' |
| Gershayim | ״ | " |
| Maqaf | ־ | - |
| Paseq | ׀ | ¦ or § |
Technical Information
System Requirements
It is recommended that you use one of the following hardware layouts with this Keyman keyboard:
- AZERTY French
- QWERTY UK
- QWERTY US
- QWERTZ German
Unicode Version
This keyboard complies with Unicode 6.0
