Keyboard Map of SPTiberian, a public domain Hebrew/Aramaic font
Created by: Jimmy Adair, Scholars Press
Last modified: 14 July 1998
Modification 1998FEB18: remove all vowels for final kaf except qamets, shewa
                        add single-word abbreviation mark
                        add sub-linear dots & circles for ms transcription
             1998JUL14: minor graphical correction

Description: SPTiberian 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 the vowel points have multiple forms to 
allow for proper placement with wide characters, narrow 
characters, and final kafs (and nuns).

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.  Also,
note that vowels that are designed for wide characters (most letters) are
all unshifted, whereas the corresponding vowels for narrow characters
(gimel, waw, zayin, yod, nun) are shifted.  Vowels that go with the final
kaf (and nun) are mostly mapped to numbers.  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 (wide char)               a
patah (narrow char)             A   (shift-a) - also furtive patah
qamets (wide char)              f
qamets (narrow char)            F   (shift-f)
qamets (final kaf)              1   (one)
hireq (wide char)               i
hireq (narrow char)             I   (shift-i)
segol (wide char)               e
segol (narrow char)             E
sere (wide char)                '   (single quote)
sere (narrow char)              "   (double quote, shift-')
holem (wide char)               o
holem (narrow char)             O   (shift-o) - also Mas abbrev, number mark
qibbuts (wide char)             u
qibbuts (narrow char)           U   (shift-u)
shewa (wide char)               ;   (semi-colon)
shewa (narrow char)             :   (colon, shift-;)
shewa (final kaf)               7
hatef-patah (wide char)         j
hatef-patah (narrow char)       J   (shift-j)
hatef-segol (wide char)         v
hatef-segol (narrow char)       V   (shift-v)
hatef-qamets (wide char)        /   (forward slash)
hatef-qamets (narrow char)      ?   (shift-/)
sin dot                         &   (ampersand, shift-7)
shin dot                        $   (dollar sign, shift-4)
dagesh (wide char)              @   (shift-2) - also mappiq
dagesh (narrow char)            %   (shift-5) - also shureq dot
dagesh (yod)                    ,   (comma)
dagesh (alef)                   ^   (caret, shift-6)
rafe (wide char)                {   (left brace, shift-[)
rafe (narrow char)              }   (right brace, shift-])
maqqef                          -   (hyphen)
sof pasuq                       .   (period)
meteg (wide char)               \   (backslash)
meteg (narrow char)             |   (virgule, shift-\)
dash                            _   (underscore, shift--)
paseq, vertical stroke          !   (exclamation mark, shift-1)
space                           space

Special characters for Masoretic notes

single-word abbreviation        `   (grave accent)
multi-word abbreviation         ~   (tilde, shift-`)
circule (wide char)             G   (shift-g)
circule (narrow char)           H   (shift-h)

Special characters for manuscript transcription

sub-linear dot (wide char)      Q   (shift-q) - damaged character
sub-linear dot (narrow char)    W   (shift-w) - damaged character
sub-linear circle (wide char)   R   (shift-r) - uncertain character
sub-linear circle (narrow char) T   (shift-t) - uncertain character
