? Logos Hebrew Keyboard Layout

LOGOS HEBREW KEYBOARD CHART

This layout description was created by Sarah J. Blake in order to assist students who are blind or visually impaired in learning the layout of the Logos Biblical Hebrew keyboard. Since the manual is in PDF format and, even when converted to a more usable form, relies heavily on diagrams and visual demonstrations, it seemed reasonable to create a resource so that key assignments could be located easily if necessary. If you don't wish to view the entire table, the following points will be of use.

Letters are arranged phonetically as much as possible. The j key is assigned to the letter khet. The f key is assigned to the letter tet. The c key is assigned to the letter tsadi.
The point which forms the qamets is mapped to both shift+a and o. This is because it can be used for both an a sound as in the word father and an o sound.
To form the reduced vowels, use shift with the letter below the vowel (shift+z, shift+d, shift+l).
To form characters such as hireq-yod, type the two letters. They will not display in braille as they do in hard copy. There are no precomposed characters for these combinations.

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Char	Name	Braille Dots	Key Assignment
א	aleph	dot 1	apostrophe
ב	bet	dots 1236	b
ג	dots 1245	g
ד	dalet	dots 145	d
ה	he	dots 125	h
ו	vav	dots 2456	v or w
ז	zayin	dots 1356	z
ח	khet	dots 1346	j
ט	tet	dots 2345	f
י	yod	dots 245	y
ך	final kaph (requires a sheva after it)	dots 13	shift+k
כ	kaph	dots 16	k
ל	lamed	dots 123	l
מ	mem	dots 134	m
ם	final mem	dots 134	shift+m
נ	nun	dots 1345	n
ן	final nun	dots 1345	shift+n
ס	samech	dots 234	s
ayin	dots 1246	double quote
פ	pe	dots 124	p
ף	final pe	dots 1234	shift+pe
צ	tsadi	dots 2346	c
ץ	final tsadi	dots 2346	shift+c
ק	qof	dots 12345	q
resh	dots 1236	r
שׁ	shin	dots 146	right bracket
שׂ	sin	dots 156	left bracket
ת	tav	dots 1456	t
ְ	sheva	dot 3	comma
ּ	dagesh	dot 5	period (following the character it accompanies
־	maqqef	dots 36	dash
ַ	patah	dots 14	a
ֲ	hatef patah	dots 25	sift+z
ָ	qamets	dots 345	shift+a
ֳ	hatef qamets	dots 126	shift+l
ֶ	segol	dots 15	e
ֱ	hatef segol	dots 26	shift+d
ִ	hireq	dots 24	i
ֵ	tsere	dots 34	shift+e
ֹ	holem	dots 135	shift+o
ֻ	qubuts	dots 136	u
וּ	shuruq	dots 346	shift+u

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