Macintosh Hebrew Language Kit Installation and User’s Manual Manuel d’installation et d’utilisation
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Contents Chapter 1 Introduction A-1 About this manual A-1 About the Hebrew Language Kit A-1 Requirements A-2 Chapter 2 Setting Up A-3 Installing the Hebrew Language Kit from the compact disc A-3 Installing the Hebrew Language Kit from floppy disks A-3 Displaying Hebrew filenames correctly A-5 Installing SimpleText Hebrew A-6 Removing the Hebrew Language Kit from your system A-6 Chapter 3 Choosing a Language for Your Application Program A-9 The Hebrew Language Register program A-9 Registering your program
Chapter 1 Introduction About this manual This manual explains how to install your Hebrew Language Kit. You will also learn how to designate which of your application programs should be opened in Hebrew, and how to use the new control panels and menus that the language kit adds to your system software. Here is how to use this manual: 1. Install the Hebrew Language Kit. Follow the instructions in Chapter 2 to install Hebrew language support in your computer. 2. Display Hebrew file and folder names correctly.
m You can enter English, Hebrew, and Yiddish in a single document, using any Hebrew or non-Hebrew application program that takes advantage of WorldScript I. (Check with the program’s manufacturer if you’re not sure your program is fully compatible with WorldScript I.) Requirements The Hebrew Language Kit includes: m At least 4 megabytes of RAM (8 megabytes if you are using Macintosh System 7.5 with QuickDraw GX installed).
Chapter 2 Setting Up Installing the Hebrew Language Kit from floppy disks Before you can use the Hebrew Language Kit you must install the software. You may also want to consider setting your Views control panel to display Hebrew file and folder names correctly on your screen. The installation process automatically makes a backup copy of your System Folder (to protect the contents during installation of the Hebrew Language Kit). The backup copy uses approximately 3 megabytes of space on your hard disk.
1. Quit any open application programs. If you have any virus-detection software, turn it off. v Note: It’s best to start your computer with all extensions turned off before doing the installation. To do so, hold the Shift key down while your computer is starting. v 2. Insert the Install 1, English disk into your floppy drive (or insert the Macintosh Hebrew Language Kit CD disc into your CD-ROM drive). You should see the Installer icon in the Install 1, English disk’s window. 3.
Displaying Hebrew filenames correctly If you have files and folders with Hebrew names on your computer, you may find that your system can’t correctly display these Hebrew names. This can happen if the font your system currently uses for file and folder names is not appropriate for Hebrew. 4. Choose Hermon (or any other Hebrew font you prefer). Choose Hermon.
Installing SimpleText Hebrew SimpleText Hebrew is a basic multilingual text-editing program that supports traditional Hebrew characters as well as all other available writing systems. This program is not automatically installed with your language kit. If you wish to install it, follow these steps: 1. Do one of the following: If you have a CD-ROM drive, insert the CD Install disc into the CD-ROM drive. Otherwise, insert the Install 1, English floppy disk into your floppy drive. 2.
2. Insert the Install 1, English disk into your floppy drive (or insert the Macintosh Hebrew Language Kit CD disc into your CD-ROM drive). You should see the Installer icon in the Install 1, English disk’s window. 3. Open the Installer by double-clicking its icon. 9. If you see a message telling you to restart your computer, click Restart. Hebrew is not removed until you restart your computer.
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Chapter 3 Choosing a Language for Your Application Program Now that your computer can work in more than one language, it must have a way to determine which programs must be opened in Hebrew. The Hebrew Language Register program Application programs contain a region code that tells your system which language and font should be used for menus, dialog boxes, help balloons, and other items. Some programs, however, contain region codes that don’t specify the preferred language.
3. Select the application program you want to register. Creating a Roman Language Register If you register a program as Hebrew by accident, you can change it back to your computer’s primary language by following these steps: If the program you want to register is not listed, use this menu to see files in other folders. Click the program you want to register. 4. Click the Register button. Now you can open your program and begin working in Hebrew.
Chapter 4 Working in Multiple Languages Now that you have installed the Hebrew Language Kit, your system supports at least two languages: your primary language and Hebrew. When you add another language to your computer, you have new choices about how text should appear on your desktop and in documents. The more languages your computer supports, the more choices you have.
Primary and secondary scripts The script used by your system software—the language in the menus, dialog boxes, and other items on the screen—is your computer’s primary script. If you install a language kit that uses a different script, that script becomes a secondary script for your system. For example, if your system is English, and you install the Hebrew Language Kit, your system’s primary script is Roman, and its secondary script is Hebrew.
Hebrew Language Kit keyboard layouts The standard Hebrew keyboard layout The Hebrew Language Kit offers four different keyboard layouts: This is the standard Hebrew keyboard. It lets you type all Hebrew characters in Normal and Shift positions. The numbers typed on the top row are displayed from right to left, as on a Hebrew typewriter. The numbers typed on the numeric keypad are displayed from left to right.
The Hebrew keyboard layout for PowerBook computers This layout is similar to the standard Hebrew keyboard except that you type numbers from the top row as if they were typed from the keypad. It is recommended for use with Apple PowerBook computers, which do not have a numeric keypad integrated into the keyboard. The Hebrew-QWERTY transliterated keyboard layout Shift Press Shift to obtain final (sofit) consonants and long vowels.
The Hébreu-AZERTY transliterated keyboard layout Option + Shift This keyboard layout phonetically maps the Hebrew characters to a standard AZERTY (French) keyboard layout. Pressing the Shift, Option, or Option+Shift keys provides the Hebrew characters for different consonants and vowels, as shown below. Normal Transliteration guidelines The following charts list the names of all the letters of the Yiddish and Hebrew character sets.
QWERTY Keyboard Transliteration AZERTY Keyboard Transliteration Name of Letter Alef a a Beth (with dagesh) b` Veth QWERTY Keyboard Transliteration AZERTY Keyboard Transliteration Nun n n b^ Nun Sofit N N, § b b Samekh s s Ghimal g g Ayn e e Daleth d d Pe (with dagesh) p` p^ He h h Fe f, p f, p Waw u, o, v u, o, v Fe Sofit F, P F, P, à Zayn z z Tsade c c Heth j, H j, H Tsade Sofit C C, é Teth y, T y, T Qof q q Yod i i Resh r r Kaf (with d
The Keyboard control panel 3. Select the new default keyboard layout you want. Use the Keyboard control panel to choose which keyboard layout is the default—the one automatically selected in your Keyboards menu—for each script on your system. The keyboard layouts displayed in the Keyboard control panel correspond to the language currently selected in your Keyboards menu. For instance, if the U.S.
Specific features for right-to-left scripts The Hebrew Setting control panel If your system has a right-to-left script such as Hebrew installed, your Text control panel has some additional features (as shown below). The Text control panel determines the direction (left to right or right to left) in which the system presents text and other on-screen elements such as buttons and menus. This control panel lets you select a Roman font to be associated with Hebrew fonts.
The Hebrew characters encoding table The character encoding table used in the Hebrew Language Kit is shown on the right. Column rank represents the first code digit, and row rank represents the second code digit. Rank starts from 0. For example, letter b is in the 6. column and the .2 row, so its hexadecimal code is $62. v Important: The Hebrew space character code is $A0. This is not the same as the Roman space character code, which is $20.
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Chapter 5 Troubleshooting I changed my Views control panel to the Hermon font, but I still see odd characters in my Hebrew application program. This section contains information about some common problems you may encounter while working on a computer that supports Hebrew. Your system may not recognize your Hebrew program as Hebrew. Follow the instructions in Chapter 3 of this manual to register your program as Hebrew. I see odd characters that I can’t read in some of my file and folder names.
Setting the Views control panel to Hermon is necessary only to read Hebrew file and folder names. If you don’t set the Views control panel, you will still see Hebrew correctly displayed within your Hebrew or multilingual application programs. You can write and print in Hebrew; remember to give your files non-Hebrew names. I can’t edit a Hebrew file or folder name. I changed my Views control panel to the Hermon font, but I still see odd characters in my Application menu.
Since I installed the Hebrew Language Kit, I can no longer work with some of my other application programs, even in Roman. Since I installed the Hebrew Language Kit, unwanted keyboard layouts appear in my Keyboards menu. How do I remove them? This may be due to a lack of memory. The Hebrew Language Kit, when installed, is automatically loaded in memory at startup along with system software. Your system software takes up more space in memory, and the amount of memory available for programs decreases.
