From the “Layout variant” box, select “Biblical Hebrew (Tiro)”.Click on “Israel” in the “Active layouts”.From the “Available layouts” list, select “Israel.” Click on the right-facing arrow button to move the layout to the “Active layouts.”.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. 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. 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. ( 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.