              How to use Yiddish Pasekh?
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STARTING UP

1. Start Keyman.  If you do not want to start Keyman every time then
   you can configure it to start with Windows.

2. click the keyboard layout indicator on the Windows taskbar and
   switch to "Hebrew."  The keyboard layout indicator will display
   HE instead of EN, and the Keyman icon will turn into a blue
   Pasekh Tsvey Yudn icon.


KEYSTROKES

Type Yiddish by transliteration:  type Shin with sh or Pasekh Tsvey
Yudn with ay.

Khof, mem, nun, fey and tsadek are shaped automatically:  they take
their final forms at the end of words and their regular forms
otherwise.  Isolated final forms can be typed with shifted keys:

Shift+C -> final tsadek
Shift+X -> final khof

Shtumer Alef is automatically inserted before ay, ey, i, oy, or u
at the beginning of words.  You can type a word-internal shtumer alef
with Shift+A.

Occasionally, you may need initial ay, ey, etc. without a shtumer alef,
e.g. when you want to list the letters of the alefbeys.  You can type
them with the following key combinations:

Shift+E -> ey
Shift+I -> i
Shift+J -> ey (the name of J rhymes with ei)
Shift+O -> oy
Shift+U -> u
Shift+Y -> ay (the name of Y rhymes with ai)

Hebrew-specific letters are typed with shifted keys, too:

Shift+B -> veys
Shift+H -> khes
Shift+K -> kof (Hebrew kaf)
Shift+S -> sof
Shift+T -> tof
Shift+W -> sin

Geresh is typed with Shift+G and curley double quotes are typed with
the Q key.  The opening quotation mark is low if Q is unshifted and
high if shifted.

The backslash key functions as a temporary place holder to separate
letters or parts of compound words.  Type s\h to output samekh hey
instead of shin, or type ge\aylt to insert a shtumer alef between
the ayen and the pasekh tsvey yudn.

The hyphen key outputs a makef after a Yiddish letter and a hyphen
otherwise.  If, for some reason, you need a hyphen after a Yiddish
letter, press the hyphen key twice.

A hyphen after a hyphen turns the hyphen into an en dash.
A hyphen after an en dash turns the en dash into an em dash.
A geresh after a geresh turns the geresh into gershayim.


Gyula Zsigri

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January 14, 2002
