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BibleWorks Keyboard Layouts

Clicking on this button will bring up the Keyboard Layouts Window. You can also open the window by
selecting Tools | Keyboard Layouts from the Main Menu.

Keyboard Layouts
Manual Mode
The Automatic Mode
Setting a Default Non-Command-Line Keyboard Layout
Inserting Special Characters
Non-English Keyboards
Problems with Greek and Hebrew
Vietnamese Input
A Summary of BibleWorks Fonts
Font Remapping
Transliterated Hebrew Characters

Clicking on this button will open up the BibleWorks Keyboard Window. This window contains a clickable
BibleWorks Keyboard that shows you how to type characters in the various BibleWorks fonts.

The Font Map Window

Font Map Tables
The BibleWorks U.S. English Keyboard
The BibleWorks Hebrew Keyboard (Bwhebb.ttf)
The BibleWorks Greek Keyboard (Bwgrkl.ttf)
The BibleWorks Hebrew Keyboard in More Detail (Bwhebb.ttf)
The BibleWorks Hebrew Accent Character Codes

Installing the BibleWorks Hebrew Unicode Keyboard Driver

Keyboard Layouts

BibleWorks loads keyboard maps from Windows when they

are needed for use with Bible Versions in non-English
languages. Options in this window permit you to configure
BibleWorks to work with non-English languages. The steps
required to do this are as follows:

For each language in the "Languages" List Box select a

Keyboard Layout from the "Layouts" List Box. This
determines which keyboard is activated automatically for
Command Line input when a version using that language is
chosen as a search version. In most cases you can just use
the default listed. The automatic switch will occur only if the
"Automatically" radio button is selected. Many non-English
users like to set the Default English Keyboard to their native-
language Keyboard. This, with the appropriate setting for the
"Default Keyboard" as discussed below, insures that all input
goes through the native keyboard. This will not work for all
languages, but it does work well for some.

The keyboard set in the Default Keyboard Layout section will

be used automatically in the Editor for non-Greek, non-
Hebrew text and in Windows requiring text input. There is also a special "language" called "default" listed in the
"Languages" list box that can be used to set this default keyboard layout. So the "Default Keyboard Layout"
section is redundant. We thought however that the parameter was important enough to be broken out separately.

The BibleWorks Editor will use an English Keyboard Layout for Greek and Hebrew text. This is the preferred

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method, because many non-English Keyboards do not provide access to all the Greek and Hebrew characters in
the BibleWorks fonts. However, if the language or layout that you normally use does map all the Greek and
Hebrew character codes, you can uncheck the "Always use English KB for Greek and Hebrew Text" box. Then
you can use, for example, a Danish keyboard to enter Greek and Hebrew.

The BibleWorks Keyboard Layout Manager functions in two modes, a manual mode and an automatic mode. The
mode is set by the radio buttons in the "Change Layout" group box. We strongly recommend leaving the setting
on "automatic" (the default setting).

Manual Mode

In manual mode the Keyboard Layout will change for the Keyboard only when you make a new selection in the
Keyboard Layout List Box and click on OK.

One exception to this behavior is that when your search version is a Greek or Hebrew version, the program will
always use the English Keyboard Layout. This guarantees that all the characters you need to use in these
versions will be available on the Keyboard. Some of the Hebrew characters are on keys not available on some
non-English keyboards and it seemed like this was the simplest approach to take.

Please note that if you want to change Keyboard Layouts you should select a language from the top List Box,
NOT a keyboard layout from the bottom List Box. The bottom List Box associates a particular keyboard layout
with each language. This makes it much easier to change keyboard layouts because you don't have to search
through a long list of layouts every time you want to change the layout. You just pick a language instead. This
note applies to Automatic Mode as well as Manual Mode.

We do not recommend that you use the manual mode unless you need to resolve problems.

The Automatic Mode

In automatic mode the Keyboard Layout used by the Command Line will change automatically whenever the
search version changes. The selections in the Keyboard Layout Window determine which Layout is used for
each language. To change a setting simply pick the language and then the Keyboard Layout that you want to
use. Windows 2000/XP/Vista users should see a list of all keyboards supported by the system and probably
will not need to install any. If you do not see the Keyboard that you want follow this procedure:

1. Click on the Start button.

2. Select Settings | Control Panel.
3. Double-click on the Keyboard icon
4. In the window that opens, choose the Language tab.
5. Click the Add button and select the keyboard layout you want.
6. Repeat step 5 for all languages that you want to add.
7. Windows will probably ask you to insert your Windows CD.

The currently loaded Layout will be displayed in the Status Window at the bottom of the BibleWorks screen.
You may have to enlarge the window or remove some items from the Status Window in order to see it.

Setting a Default Non-Command-Line Keyboard Layout

As we said in the previous paragraph, the Automatic Mode causes the Keyboard Layout used by the
Command Line to change to match the search version. For all other text entry in BibleWorks, the program will
use the last Keyboard Layout specified by the Keyboard Layout Window. So when you exit the Keyboard
Layout Window a new default Keyboard Layout is set and will be used for all non-Command-Line input. For
example, suppose you are a German user and are currently searching a Spanish Bible Version. You would
proceed as follows:

1. To specify German as your default Layout, open the Keyboard Layout Window, select "Automatically",
choose the German Language (NOT the German Layout in the bottom list) and exit.

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2. Now set LBA (a Spanish Version) as your current search version.

3. As you use the mouse to alternately activate the Command Line and another part of the User Interface
(like the Browse Window) you will see the Layout indicator on the Main Status Bar change back and forth
between "SPA" and "GER".

Inserting Special Characters

As we indicated earlier in the section on Command Line Searches, there are a number of special characters that
are used by BibleWorks to specify search type, grouping, wildcards, etc. on the Command Line. They are:

*?[]{}/.\!();#@%

Non-English Keyboards

There are two problems that arise from the need to use these characters. The first is the fact that some of these
characters do not occur on some non-English Keyboards. In those cases a special method is needed to enter
them. We have provided several mechanisms to do this:

1. If you press the INS key while on the Command Line the Keyboard Map will change to the standard
English Keyboard. A flashing red square in the upper right part of the Command Line tells you that you are
in this mode. You can then enter these special characters by pressing the appropriate English Keyboard
character. Press the INS key again to return to your native language keyboard.

2. RIGHT click on the Command Line and select "Code Insertion Buttons". This will add a row of buttons
under the Command Line that you can use to add these special characters.

3. RIGHT click on the Command Line and select "Insert Search Parameter Code". A submenu will open up
from which you can choose the character that you need.

Problems with Greek and Hebrew

Since the Greek and Hebrew versions by default use the standard English Keyboard, there is no problem with
inaccessible keys. No matter what keyboard you are using you should be able to access the keys to type
Hebrew and Greek. Normally you don't even have to think about it. However a problem arises when you turn
on accent-sensitive searching for Greek or vowel point-sensitive searching for Hebrew. Some of the keys used
for the special control codes listed above are also used for accents or vowel points.

The solution we have implemented also uses the INS key to change input modes when accent-sensitive Greek
or vowel-point-sensitive Hebrew modes are on. The INS key turns on a code insertion mode. For example, if
the INS key is off (no flashing red box) the question mark key (?) key will produce a hateph-seghol vowel. If
you press INS the same key will produce the ? wildcard.

Note that if you do not have vowel point-sensitive Hebrew or accent-sensitive Greek searching enabled, you
do not have to use the INS key at all. You do not even need it for the final consonants on the numeric keys 1
through 4. BibleWorks converts medial to final characters automatically on the Command Line. If you want to
type either a medial or a final letter nun, for example, just press the 'n' key.

Note also that for all languages, including Hebrew and Greek, you do not have to change fonts. The program
will handle that automatically. For example, to type a Hebrew entry for a morphological search, you just enter
the Hebrew part, then press @ to begin the code sequence, and the program will change the font to the
correct font automatically.

Vietnamese Input

Version 9 of BibleWorks does not provide a Romanized Vietnamese input method. You can use a compatible
Vietnamese keyboard to enter search strings. Otherwise you are limited to viewing the text and doing searches
by double-clicking on words.

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A Summary of BibleWorks Fonts

A number of TrueType fonts are installed with the BibleWorks program to display Greek and Hebrew text, as
well as specialized symbols for lexicons and non-Roman character sets. The following fonts are available on
the BibleWorks DVD. Fonts shown in bold italics are installed automatically by BibleWorks and are
necessary for full function.

bwcopm.ttf The BibleWorks Coptic Font - Used in some modules.

bwgrkl.ttf The default BW Greek font used for Greek text
bwgrkd.ttf The same as bwgrkl but with dots under the characters
bwgrki.ttf An Italic version of bwgrkl not used by BibleWorks
bwgrkn.ttf A denser version of bwgrkl not used by BibleWorks
bwhebb.ttf The default BW Hebrew font used for Hebrew text
bwhebl.ttf A lighter Hebrew font not used by BibleWorks
hebrew.ttf Identical to bwhebb but with a different internal name, for use with
some problem versions of WordPerfect
bwcyrl.ttf The default BW Cyrillic font used for Russian text
bwviet.ttf The default BW font used for Romanized Vietnamese text
bweeti.ttf The default Eastern European Times BW font. Currently used only in
the Polish versions
bweess.ttf The default Eastern European Sans Serif BW font. Currently used
only in the Polish versions
bwsymbol.ttf A symbol font used mainly to display specialized symbols in some of
the lexicons supported in BibleWorks
bwtransh.ttf A font containing transliteration characters for transliterated Hebrew
text. It is used by the BHT version
bwlexa.ttf A support font for BibleWorks Lexicons
bwlexs.ttf A support font for BibleWorks Lexicons
sileotsr.ttf The SIL Hebrew (Unicode) font
SBL_hbrw.ttf The SBL Hebrew (Unicode) font
GalSILR201.ttf The SIL Galatia Greek (Unicode) font

Both the SIL Hebrew and Greek and the SBL Hebrew fonts come with distribution file sets from the Summer
Institute of Linguistics and Society of Biblical Literature, respectively. They both contain documentation on the
fonts and keyboard utilities. See the zipped files GalSilv201.zip and EzrSIL20.zip for the SIL fonts. See the
zipped files "Biblical Hebrew (Tiro) keyboard v1.2.zip" and SBLHebrew-Distribution v1.11.zip for the SBL fonts.
Only the three fonts at the end of the list above are installed by the BibleWorks installation program, but you may
want to take a look at the documentation and utilities provided by SIL and SBL in these file sets.

Font Remapping

You can specify a font mapping file with which BibleWorks Greek and Hebrew fonts can be remapped when
text is exported to a word processor. This allows you to export BibleWorks Greek and Hebrew texts in a format
that is compatible with other mapping schemes and fonts. To access this capability go to the Options window,
and select the Font Options tab. See Font Options for more information.

Transliterated Hebrew Characters

The BHT version in BibleWorks is a transliterated version of the Hebrew Old Testament. Many of these
characters are mapped to ASCII characters above 128 and are directly accessible from the keyboard.

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However, when you are typing on the Command Line with the BHT as your search version you can press INS
to enter a mapping mode that translates these characters to the English keyboard. The following table gives
the English keys and the BHT transliteration characters to which they are mapped.

a ´ s â I î
" ' . ü p ó
x H : • o ö
j † ? é O ò
f S h è E ô
v š y Ê u ù
] á e ë A û
q à H Ë ` º
w ª Y ê
' ä i ì

The Font Map Window

Clicking on this button will open up the BibleWorks
Keyboard Window. This window contains a
clickable BibleWorks Keyboard that shows you how to
type characters in the various BibleWorks fonts. It is
intended for Command Line entry. The BibleWorks
Editor has its own utilities.

If you click on the "Keymap Tables" button in this

window, the BibleWorks Key Map Window will open.
This will display in a scrollable window all the characters
in the fonts used to display Bible Versions in BibleWorks.
The list box in the upper left corner enables you to
change the font. The list box on the upper right permits
you to change the size of the displayed font. This can be
useful when displaying Greek and Hebrew fonts which have accents and vowel points which are not very
legible at small point sizes.

The main purpose of the window is to help you locate characters

for entry on the Command Line. If you double-click on a
character in the list box it will be copied to the Command Line at
the current insertion point.

Font Map Tables

The following section contains keyboard maps for BibleWorks

Greek, Hebrew and Transliterated Hebrew fonts. All non-English
Bible Versions use (by default) the Windows Keyboard Layouts
that you have specified.

The BibleWorks U.S. English Keyboard

~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - =

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~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +
Q W E R T Y U I O P { }
q w e r t y u i o p [ ]
Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ]
A S D F G H J K L : "
a s d f g h j k l ; '
A S D F G H J K L ; '
Z X C V B N M < > ? |
z x c v b n m , . / \
Z X C V B N M , . / \

The BibleWorks Hebrew Keyboard (Bwhebb.ttf)

~ ! @ # $ % ^ & Ø* Ø( Ø) Ø_ Ø+
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - Ø=
~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +
Q W ØE R T Y ØU ØI ØO P Ø{ Ø}
q w Øe r t y Øu Øi Øo p [ Ø]
Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ]
A S D F G H J K L Ø: Ø"
a s d f g h j k l Ø; Ø'
A S D F G H J K L ; '
Z X C V B N M Ø< Ø> Ø? Ø|
z x c v b n m Ø, Ø. Ø/ Ø\
Z X C V B N M , . / \

The BibleWorks Greek Keyboard (Bwgrkl.ttf)

~A ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _A +A
a` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 a- a=
~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +
Q W E R T Y U I O P {A }
q w e r t y u i o p a[ A
a]
Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ]
A S D F G H K L :A "A
a s d f g h j k l a; a'
A S D F G H J K L ; '
Z X C VA B N M a< a> a? a|
z x c av b n m a, a. a/ \
Z X C V B N M , . / \

Note: The a and A shown with Greek accents and, on the following page, the a shown with Hebrew vowels

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are not printed. They are shown to illustrate accent and vowel point positions.

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The BibleWorks Hebrew Keyboard in More Detail (Bwhebb.ttf)

32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
! a" # $ % & a' a( a) a*
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
a+ a, - a. a/ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68
8 9 a: a; a< a= a> a? @ A B C D
69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81
aE F G H aI J K L M N aO P Q
82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94
R S T aU V W X Y Z [ a\ a] ^
95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107
a_ ` a b c d ae f g h ai j k
108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120
l m n ao p q r s t au v w x
121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133
y z a{ a| a} ~ ‚ „ a…
134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146
a† a‡ aˆ a‰ aŠ ‹ Œ a‘ a’
147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159
a" a" a• a– a— a˜ a™ aš a› œ Ÿ
160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172
a¡ a¢ £ ¤ a¥ a¦ a§ a¨ a© aª a« a¬
173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185
a® a° a± a² a³ a´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹
186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198
º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ
199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211
Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó
212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224
Ô Õ Ö × Ú aÛ aÜ aÝ aÞ aß aà
225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237

aá aâ aã aä aå aæ aç aè aé aê aë aì aí
238 239 340 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250
aî aï að añ aò aó aô aõ aö a÷ aø aù aú
251 252 253 254 255
aû aü aý

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The BibleWorks Hebrew Accent Character Codes

Many of the Hebrew accents in the BibleWorks Hebrew font have multiple instances so that the accents can
be placed at different locations. The following table lists the multiple instances. Positions of the codes are in
order of decreasing distance from the right side.

Accent BW Character Codes

Soph Passuq 96
Segolta 232
Zarqa, Sinnor 233
Pashta, Azla Legarmeh 145
Pashta (with previous left) 146,147
Telisha Parvum 251
Paseq [separator] 159
Yetib 133
Dehi or Tipha 226
Mugrash 247
Telisha Magnum 251
Ole or Mahpakatum 241,242
Geresh or Teres 248,247
Gershajim 250,249
Azla or Qadma 146,147
Illuj 236,237
Shalshelet (mag,parv) 166
Zaqep Parvum 234,235
Rebia (Magnum=Parvum) 170,169
Sinnorit 171,172
Pazer 135,179
Pazer Mag or Qarne Parv 161
Zaqep Magnum 167,168
Mahpak or Mehuppak 152,219,220,221
Mereka 153,238,239,240
Mereka Kepulah 154,253,162,150
Tipha, Majela, or Tarha 155,222,223,224
Munah 156,228,229,230
Silluq [meteg (left)] 134,40,41,42
Meteg (right) 165
Tebir 136,178,177,176
Atnah 137,95,43,61
Galgal or Jerah 151,231,225,246
Darga 138,243,244,245
Telisha Qetannah (med) 148,149
Telish Magnum (med) 252,251

Installing the BibleWorks Hebrew Unicode Keyboard Driver

BibleWorks comes with two Hebrew Unicode fonts (Ezra SIL and SBL Hebrew). Many people have difficulty
typing Hebrew using the standard Windows XP Hebrew Keyboard. If you are comfortable with the
BibleWorks Hebrew keyboard you can continue using it, with some necessary changes due to the way
Unicode works, in the BibleWorks Editor and any Windows Word Processor under Windows 2000 or

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Windows XP.

Installing the Driver

The first thing you have to do is install the Windows Keyboard driver. To do this open the Windows Explorer
and navigate to the "keyboards" subdirectory under the BibleWorks Directory. You will find there two
keyboard driver installation programs: BWHeb.msi and BHebTiro(1.2).msi. The first is the BibleWorks
Keyboard and the second is an Israeli keyboard provided by SBL. To install either keyboard just double click
on the filename. Note that these keyboards are only useable in an application that support Unicode (like the
BibleWorks editor and Word 2003). The keyboards can only be installed under Windows XP.

Adding the Driver to Windows Text Services

After installing the driver you must configure Windows Text Services to use the Driver. The procedure to do
that is as follows:

1. Open the Control Panel by choosing Start | Settings Control Panel.

2. Double Click on Regional and Language Options.
3. Select the Languages Tab.
4. Check the box labeled "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages" if it is not already
checked.
5. Click on the "Details" Button.
6. Click on the "Add" Button.
7. When the "Add Input Language" Window opens, select Hebrew as the Input Language.
8. Then Check the "Keyboard layout/IME check box.
9. The select Biblical Hebrew (BibleWorks) from the menu and click on OK.
10. Click on OK.
11. When the Language Bar Settings Window Opens, check the box labeled "Show the Language Bar on
the Desktop". This bar will be in the System Task Tray and permits you to easily change keyboards.
12. Click OK and you are done.

For more details see the BiblicalHebrew(Tiro)Manual.pdf document which details the same procedures for
use with the SBL Israeli Hebrew Keyboard. It is located in the keyboards folder.

The Font Mapping Table

The file BWHebLayout.pdf in your BibleWorks keyboards folder contains pictures of the Keyboard Layout
used by the Keyboard Driver. The keyboard was designed for use with the SBL Hebrew font but it should
work for most purposes with any Unicode Hebrew Font.

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