ZIGGY'S "YIDDISH PASEKH" SMART TRANSLITERATION KEYBOARD

One-Time Installation Instructions

Windows 2000 & XP

NOTE: This is an old, outdated web page. Instead, please download the Yiddish Keyboard Layouts Installer and you will have the most current, updated instructions. This page is remaining on the web only temporarily - until the Yiddish Keyboard Layout installer will be available on CD for those who wish to avoid large downloads.

The following notes and instructions are based on documents and files which were generously contributed by the creator of this keyboard layout,  Gyula "Ziggy" Zsigri.  An explanation of this Yiddish keyboard layout may be found on the previous page.

• Legal Notes

• How to Install

• How to Uninstall

LEGAL & ACKNOWLEDGMENT

You can freely use and distribute this package but you are not allowed to restrict the rights of others to freely use and distribute it.

(c) 2002 Gyula Zsigri. All rights reserved.

Fontboard: Fonts & Keyboards

http://www.geocities.com/fontboard/
http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/

The keyboard was inspired by Gaspar Sinai's Yudit editor
and Refoyl Finkel's Yidishe Shraybmashinke.

http://www.yudit.org/
http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/makeyiddish.html

Thanks Dvorah Biasca, Refoyl Finkel, Hershl Glasser, Perets Mett, Noyekh Miller, Leonard Prager and Shoshke-Rayzl Yuni for their help during the development of this keyboard.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Download and install Tavultesoft Keyman from:
http://www.tavultesoft.com 

• Browse to their "Keyman Downloads Page" to install the current free version of "Keyman." (Don't install their keyboards, just the installation file for the Keyman program.

• You'll need to save the file anywhere on your hard drive, but make a note as to where you saved it.

• Browse to the file in My Computer and double click on it to install Keyman.

• (Optional) Go to Start / Programs / Tavultesoft Keyman / Keyman and Right-click and Drag the Keyman program to your desktop. When you release the right-click, select "Create Shortcut Here" to make a shortcut on your desktop for Keyman. I suggest moving the shortcut to the lower right corner of your screen so that it will be near the blue Windows Keyboard Indicator, or else you can drag the shortcut to the lower left Windows Task Bar or to your Start menu so that it will be easily accessible. (Note that you will need to click this prior to typing in Yiddish after every time you restart your computer. Explained more fully in Usage Instructions, linked below.)
  

2.  Download the yidish2k.kmp file by right-clicking here.

• Follow instructions on your drop-down menu; eg.,

• in Netscape, select Save Link As

• in Explorer, select Save Target As

• Save the file where you want, but make a note of it so that you can find it again later.

• Go to My Computer and browse to find the yidish2k.kmp file on your comptuer.

• Double-click on yidish2k.kmp file.

• A dialog may pop up asking you if you wish to associate kmp and kmx files with Keyman. Click Yes.

3. An Install Package dialog will pop up. Click the Install button in the Install Package dialog and
click OK at the end of the installation.

4. For Windows 2000, go to step 4A, below. For WIndows XP, go to step 4B, below.

4A. For Windows 2000:

• Restart Windows.

• Double-click My Computer and Control Panel (or go to Start, Settings, Control Panel).

• Double-click Keyboard.

• Select the Input Locales tab and click the Add button.

• Select Hebrew in the drop-down list of languages (labelled "Input Locales") and select Yiddish Pasekh in the drop-down list of keyboard layouts. Click OK.

• Make sure that the "Enable indicator on taskbar" option is checked and click OK to finish the installation.

• Click here for notes on how to use this keyboard.

4B. For Windows XP:

• Restart Windows.

• Click on the Start button, then Settings, Control Panel and Date, Time, Language and Regional Options.

• Select the Regional and Language Options tab.

• Click Languages, then Details.

• Click Add, select Hebrew in the drop-down list of languages and select Yiddish Pasekh in the drop-down list of keyboard layouts.

• Click OK and click OK again. Check the "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages" option and click OK to finish the installation.

• Click here for notes on how to use this keyboard.

UNINSTALLATION

1. Open Control Panel, etc. (per Step 4, above) and remove "Hebrew - Yiddish Pasekh."

2. Click on the Start button, move the pointer over Programs and click on "Uninstall Yiddish Pasekh" in the Yiddish Pasekh folder.

• Back to Windows 2000/XP/NT Yiddish Configuration Notes

• Back to A Users' Guide to Yiddish on the Internet for an overview.