Keyboard Map of SPEzra, a public domain fixed width Hebrew/Aramaic font
Created by: Jimmy Adair, Scholars Press
Last modified: 18 February 1998

Description: SPEzra exists in both Macintosh and Windows 
versions, both with the same character and keyboard maps.  By 
design, all characters in the font lie between decimal 32 and 127 
(20x-7Fx, 040-0177), so they should transfer without problem over 
the Internet.  The font is designed to follow the Michigan-
Claremont encoding scheme (see <a href="http://purl.org/TC/TC-translit.html#Hebrew">
http://purl.org/TC/TC-translit.html#Hebrew</a>) to as great an 
extent as possible, though there are some exceptions, to maintain 
compatibility with the proportionately spaced font SPTiberian.

The consonants are listed first in alphabetical order, followed by vowel
points and then by other signs.  Please note the distinction between upper
and lower case in "key to push"; all shifted keys are so indicated.  A few
differences may exist among keyboards for some shifted keys (e.g., is "
shift-' or shift-2 ?), so people with different keyboards will have to
make the proper adjustments. 

character description      key to push

alef                       )   (shift-0)
bet                        b
gimel                      g
dalet                      d
he                         h
waw                        w
zayin                      z
het                        x
tet                        +   (shift-=)
yod                        y
kaf-initial/medial         k
kaf-final                  K   (shift-k)
lamed                      l
mem-initial/medial         m
mem-final                  M   (shift-m)
nun-initial/medial         n
nun-final                  N   (shift-n)
samek                      s
ayin                       (   (shift-9)
pe-initial/medial          p
pe-final                   P   (shift-p)
tsade-initial/medial       c
tsade-final                C   (shift-c)
qof                        q
resh                       r
sin/shin (without dot)     #
taw                        t
patah                      a
qamets                     f
qamets (final kaf)         1   (one)
hireq                      i
segol                      e
sere                       "   (double quote, shift-')
holem                      o
qibbuts                    u
shewa                      :   (colon, shift-;)
shewa (final kaf)          7
hatef-patah                j
hatef-segol                v
hatef-qamets               /   (forward slash)
sin dot                    &   (ampersand, shift-7)
shin dot                   $   (dollar sign, shift-4)
dagesh (most chars)        @   (shift-2) - also mappiq
dagesh (yod)               ,   (comma)
rafe                       {   (left brace, shift-[)
maqqef                     -   (hyphen)
sof pasuq                  .   (period)
meteg                      |   (virgule, shift-\)
dash                       _   (underscore, shift--)
paseq, vertical stroke     !   (exclamation mark, shift-1)
space                      space

Special characters

multi-word abbreviation    ~   (tilde, shift-`)
raised dot (damaged char)  H   (shift-h)
circule (unclear char)     G   (shift-g)