User manual
ECTACO Partner
®
XL1500 User Manual
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Keyboard
The standard American QWERTY keyboard is combined with Arabic, Dutch,
French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and
Spanish layouts.
Enter the desired symbol from the keyboard by pressing the corresponding
key.
To enter an accented letter, type the corresponding non-accented letter and
then press the ALT key several times – until the desired character appears.
To enter such letters in caps, press SHIFT+key+ALT
1
.
For Arabic, Greek and Hebrew, the ECTACO Partner
®
XL1500 offers you an on-
screen key mapping table which shows the positions of the Arabic, Greek and
Hebrew characters on the device's keyboard.
To invoke the key mapping table in the Dictionary and Hangman, press
SHIFT+KEYBD.
For Arabic and Hebrew, press SHIFT+KEYBD twice to access additional
letters. Alternatively, type the corresponding non-additional letter and then
press the ALT key.
To enter an accented letter in Greek, type the corresponding non-accented
letter and then press the ALT key several times – until the desired character
appears.
The ECTACO Partner
®
XL1500 has standard and phonetic modes of entering
Russian letters. Russian standard mode allows you to enter Russian letters
corresponding to the keyboard marks. Russian phonetic mode allows you to
enter Russian letters by their phonetic consonance with English letters, e.g. you
can press the F key to enter the Russian letter "Ф".
The table below shows the Russian and English layouts in the Russian phonetic
mode
2
.
q
я
w
ш/щ
e
е/э
r
р
t
т
y
ы
u
у/ю
i
и
o
о
p
п
a
а
s
с
d
д
f
ф
g
г/ж
h
х
j
й
k
к
l
л
z
з
x
ь/ъ
c
ц/ч
v
в
b
б
n
н
m
м
1
Key1+Key2 here and further on signifies the combination of keys to use – first
press and release Key1, then press and release Key2.
2
Press ALT to enter letters shown after the slash (/) in the table.