Available Keyboards

EzerKb comes with four pre-defined keyboards: A classical Greek keyboard, two classical Hebrew keyboards, and a Russian keyboard. They are detailed in the following sections.

All four keyboards can be started by selecting the appropriate shortcut under EzerKb in the Windows Start menu.

Classical Greek

The Greek keyboard is similar to the keyboard available in Logos Bible Software (Libronix) program.

System tray icon:

Lower case layout:

Upper case layout:

Characters with diacritics are generated by typing the diacritics followed by the base character. Note that a iota subscript must also be written before the base character.

Warnings

Unfortunately, a few Greek characters have two different codes in the Unicode character set used by Windows. This includes the following Greek characters: ά έ ή ί ό ύ ώ ΐ ΰ plus the following special characters: ʹ (dexia keraia, Greek numeral sign), ; (erotimatiko, Greek question mark), and · (ano teleia, Greek semicolon). EzerKb sends one of the available codes to the target program. If the program expects the other code, the results may not be as expected.

Classical Hebrew

Two Hebrew keyboard layouts are available. One uses a layout similar to the keyboard available in Logos Bible Software (Libronix) program. The other keyboard simply arranges the characters in alphabetical order. The latter keyboard can only be operated with the mouse.

System tray icon:

Libronix-like keyboard layout, lower case:

Libronix-like keyboard layout, upper case:

Alphabetic keyboard layout:

Masoretic marks must be typed after the base character. For example, to type בְּ, you must first type the ב and then the dagesh and the shewa.

Warnings

Microsoft Word has problems recognising right-to-left writing when EzerKb is being used. If you use EzerKb to write Hebrew in Word, you may notice that the Hebrew characters move around in unexpected ways. Other Windows programs such as Notepad or WordPad do not have such problems, so you can write your Hebrew text in one of those programs and then copy and paste the text into Word. This normally works well. EzerKb works well with OpenOffice Writer version 3.1 (I have not tested other versions).

At present, EzerKb does not provide a way to type Hebrew cantillation marks.

Russian

The Russian keyboard uses the standard Russian layout, which is not related to the location of the Latin letters in any way.

System tray icon:

Lower case layout:

Upper case layout:

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