Entering Hebrew Characters
Accordance automatically uses Yehudit and the right-to-left direction for all Hebrew text. Most of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet are easy to find in the familiar positions of their transliterated letters in Roman fonts.
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Note If incomplete sections of mixed language text (such as part of a verse reference with some text) are selected, copied and pasted, the results can be anomalous. Similarly, the selection of parts of commands in the argument entry box, and the wrap-around of long commands to the next line may appear anomalous. |
Three text entry options are available, via the Greek & Hebrew area of the Preferences dialog box, which affect entering Hebrew characters via the keyboard.
- Automatic final letter: This option alters the form of certain Hebrew letters depending on their position in the word. As you enter the word, the final form, for example of the mem, appears. But if this letter is followed by another letter, the previous letter reverts to the regular form. If not selected, the Hebrew characters appear exactly as entered. The other Hebrew characters with ending forms, caph, nun, peh, and tzadi, are treated in the same way.
- Automatic diacritical marks: This option affects overstrike characters—the vowel points and the dagesh. Most accents and other diacriticals are entered after (to the left of) the character. Most are offered with a short, medium, and long overstrike for correct positioning over or under each character. Some marks, such as the dagesh, have special positions for specific characters.
- As you enter any position for an overstrike character, the character is positioned with the correct amount of overstrike for the previous or following letter. This option help lets you learn just one keystroke for each overstrike character, and still create correctly pointed text.
- Example: If you type any dagesh after a character which takes a dagesh, the correct dagesh is entered.
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Note Automatic entry of the correct overstrike does NOT apply to cantillation marks (te‘amim or accents). See sections below for an explanation of the different positions of these accents. |
- Use Israeli keyboard layout for Hebrew: When selected, this option converts keyboard entry to the layout used by Nisus, Israeli, and other Hebrew right-to-left systems. Text can then be entered as in a Hebrew right-to-left word processor.