How to configure the keyboard layout for Hebrew (biblicalSIL, phonetic, etc)
— Albert De La Fuente VigliottiHow to configure the keyboard layout for Hebrew #
How to use multiple layouts and variants on setxkbmap #
setxkbmap -layout "eu,il,il" -variant ",biblicalSIL,biblical" -option -option "lv3:ralt_switch,grp:rctrl_rshift_toggle"
To cycle the layout hold right shift + right control. All available keystrokes
combination can be found here 1. Note that the first -option is to reset
any other old option in use.
The available layouts are located in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules. You can grep
for SIL for example.
Biblical SIL keyboard layout #
Since my intention is to learn to read biblical hebrew (and write it), I will
settle up for biblicalSIL for the time being. It seems to be a good starting
point, since it has Niqqud and a pretty logical layout.
The full documentation of the layout can be found here 2
Biblical keyboard layout #
It seems to be the standard hebrew keyboard layout. Probably it will also match the android hebrew keyboard, if so it is good to learn it. I am not sure if it does support niqqud vowel pointing.
The full documentation of the layout can be found here 3.
How to list the available layout variants #
localectl list-x11-keymap-variants il
The output should be something similar to this:
biblical
lyx
phonetic
Other layouts that might be worthwhile to look at #
https://github.com/kyriesent/type-biblical-languages-linux-xkb
https://frame-poythress.org/keyboard-entry-of-polytonic-greek-and-biblical-hebrew-in-gnulinux-2014/
Hebrew-mode (worthwhile checking it out) #
https://github.com/ymarco/hebrew-mode
Anki-vocaulary and Youdao #
https://github.com/lujun9972/anki-vocabulary.el
How to change Doom Emacs font on the fly (not working) #
(setq doom-font (font-spec :family "Input Mono Narrow" :size 12 :weight 'semi-light)
doom-variable-pitch-font (font-spec :family "Fira Sans") ; inherits `doom-font''s :size
doom-unicode-font (font-spec :family "Input Mono Narrow" :size 12)
doom-big-font (font-spec :family "Fira Mono" :size 19))
(setq doom-unicode-font (font-spec :family "Cardo" :size 12))
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#<font-spec nil nil Cardo nil nil nil nil nil 12 nil nil nil nil>
How to use keyman + kimtoy #
See: https://help.keyman.com/knowledge-base/102
I could not make it to work, and it doesn’t seem to be the preferred method anyway.
Biblical Hebrew Fonts #
https://software.sil.org/ezra/
Perhaps Cardo is preferred, since it has greek also. I am not sure, more testing is needed.