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Thomas Bartlett
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established protocols.
I am a novice in learning Hebrew, and have just installed the Hebrew font on
my Windows XP standalone home computer, which uses Office 2007. By striking
the keys of my English qwerty keyboard, I can make the Hebrew consonants
appear, but I haven't figured how to make the vowels appear.
I am not familiar with the arrangement of a Hebrew keyboard, and I hope
there may be some way to map the input from an English qwerty keyboard to
the Hebrew output, using phonetic correspondence (whether rough or fine).
Chinese is also installed on my computer and allows very convenient input
through romanized spellings, so I hope Hebrew letters can also be generated
the same way in cyber documents, by mapping to English letters on the
keyboard.
For example, in the Control Panel > Regional and Language Settings area, I
have found two options for the Hebrew Keyboard: one is 'Hebrew' and the
other 'US'. However, I don't see any effective difference in the pattern of
output.
By repeated hunt and peck, I have found that striking the English letters
'ako' will generate the Hebrew ×©×œ× , which I suppose are the consonants of
'shalom', and thus might be recognizable as that word, although a friend has
shown me a form which indicates that a letter representing the 'o' is
customarily also used. However, that's a vowel, and I don't see it among
the Hebrew output from striking all the qwerty keys. So I'm assuming that
the typed form doesn't use vowels.
I'll welcome any guidance on these points:
1) can the Hebrew output be mapped phonetically to more less corresponding
keys on the qwerty keyboard, so that input could be accomplished
successfully as if by spelling the Hebrew word in a romanized form? If so,
how do I configure that in the Windows XP Service Pack 3 setup?
2) are there vowels in the Hebrew font installed in Windows XP?
3) is modern Hebrew customarily written without vowels?
Sorry for the extreme naivety of my questions.
Thomas
microsoft.windowsxp suite of newsgroups. I hope that does not violate any
established protocols.
I am a novice in learning Hebrew, and have just installed the Hebrew font on
my Windows XP standalone home computer, which uses Office 2007. By striking
the keys of my English qwerty keyboard, I can make the Hebrew consonants
appear, but I haven't figured how to make the vowels appear.
I am not familiar with the arrangement of a Hebrew keyboard, and I hope
there may be some way to map the input from an English qwerty keyboard to
the Hebrew output, using phonetic correspondence (whether rough or fine).
Chinese is also installed on my computer and allows very convenient input
through romanized spellings, so I hope Hebrew letters can also be generated
the same way in cyber documents, by mapping to English letters on the
keyboard.
For example, in the Control Panel > Regional and Language Settings area, I
have found two options for the Hebrew Keyboard: one is 'Hebrew' and the
other 'US'. However, I don't see any effective difference in the pattern of
output.
By repeated hunt and peck, I have found that striking the English letters
'ako' will generate the Hebrew ×©×œ× , which I suppose are the consonants of
'shalom', and thus might be recognizable as that word, although a friend has
shown me a form which indicates that a letter representing the 'o' is
customarily also used. However, that's a vowel, and I don't see it among
the Hebrew output from striking all the qwerty keys. So I'm assuming that
the typed form doesn't use vowels.
I'll welcome any guidance on these points:
1) can the Hebrew output be mapped phonetically to more less corresponding
keys on the qwerty keyboard, so that input could be accomplished
successfully as if by spelling the Hebrew word in a romanized form? If so,
how do I configure that in the Windows XP Service Pack 3 setup?
2) are there vowels in the Hebrew font installed in Windows XP?
3) is modern Hebrew customarily written without vowels?
Sorry for the extreme naivety of my questions.
Thomas