Typing Hebrew fonts on a Mac

[Ploni]

What's the complete solution for typing Hebrew on a Mac? When I need to type Hebrew text I use Mellel (for its Unicode support, and so I can send Hebrew text to others and they can read it). I type text in with the Hebrew Keyboard offered for free by Tyndale house. This keyboard is better and more natural than the other two Hebrew keyboards that come with the Mac: Hebrew and Hebrew QWERTY.

 

The problem is that when I use Accordance I have to use a different keyboard, the one native to the application that uses the Yehudit font. The problem is that Accordance does not provide a 'keyboard' with Yehudit and so one has to type the characters either by guessing or by having a printed page in front of one that has the Yehudit Hebrew font. There is no keyboard viewer.

 

I am really looking for a way of typing Hebrew in Accordance and Mellel with a single keyboard, without having to use two different keyboards. I would like possibly to purchase a 'physical' Hebrew/English board to go into my Mac that uses a standard keyboard that will work in Mellel and Accordance. Perhaps someone can help to find a solution to the problem?

[Helen Brown]

I am not an expert on physical keyboards, nor on Tyndale's keyboard. I know that we hope to release a Unicode keyboard that matches our Yehudit layout. Two Accordance features may help: the Israeli keyboard option in Preferences: Greek & Hebrew, and the Character Palette (version 7.1) which lets you enter any character in any of our fonts and reminds you of the keystroke.

[Thomas]

Basil,

 

Perhaps the best solution is to learn the Israeli layout (OS X "Hebrew). The only caveat to this is, that Accordance has the nikudot completely mismapped from that of the OS X keyboard (which is Unicode compliant). Accordance does not recognize Unicode mappings as input

[Eleuterio]

I personally found a solution for the same problem with Ukelele. It is a very simple (and free) program to create your own keyboard layout. I took Hebrew Qwerty as start point and changed the keys to fit Accordance layout. Now I write both in Accordance and everywhere else with the same Hebrew kbd.

 

Best wishes.

 

Eleuterio