Keyboard Map of SPEdessa, a public domain Syriac (Estrangela) font
Created by: Jimmy Adair, Scholars Press
Last modified: 18 February 1998
Modification 1998FEB18: add unpointed dalath/rish

Description: SPEdessa exists in both Macintosh and Windows 
versions, both with the same character and keyboard maps.  By 
design, all characters in the font lie between decimal 32 and 127 
(20x-7Fx, 040-0177), so they should transfer without problem over 
the Internet.  The font is designed to follow the Michigan-
Claremont encoding scheme (see <a href="http://purl.org/TC/TC-translit.html#Syriac">
http://purl.org/TC/TC-translit.html#Syriac</a>) to as 
great an 
extent as possible (the Michigan-Claremont scheme is designed for Hebrew).

The consonants are listed first in alphabetical order, followed by vowels
and other signs.  Please note the distinction between upper and lower case
in "key to push"; all shifted keys are so indicated.  Also, note that
unjoined forms and forms joined only on the right side are unshifted,
whereas forms that are joined on the left (and possibly on the right as
well) are shifted (nun joined on the right is a special case).  Although
spacing between joined letters should be adequate for most purposes, a
special joiner character is included for increasing the space between two
joined letters.  A few differences may exist among keyboards for some
shifted keys (e.g., is " shift-' or shift-2 ?), so people with different
keyboards will have to make the proper adjustments. 

character description                     key to push

alaph                                     )   (shift-0)
beth (unjoined/joined on right)           b
beth (joined on left/joined on both)      B   (shift-b)
gamal (unjoined/joined on right)          g
gamal (joined on left/joined on both)     G   (shift-g)
dalath                                    d
unpointed dalath/rish                     D   (shift-d)
he                                        h
waw                                       w
zayn                                      z
heth (unjoined/joined on right)           x
heth (joined on left/joined on both)      X   (shift-x)
teth (unjoined/joined on right)           =
teth (joined on left/joined on both)      +   (shift-=)
yudh (unjoined/joined on right)           y
yudh (joined on left/joined on both)      Y   (shift-y)
kaph (unjoined/joined on right)           k
kaph (joined on left/joined on both)      K   (shift-k)
lamadh (unjoined/joined on right)         l
lamadh (joined on left/joined on both)    L   (shift-l)
mim (unjoined/joined on right)            m
mim (joined on left/joined on both)       M   (shift-m)
nun (unjoined)                            n
nun (joined on left/joined on both)       N   (shift-n)
nun (joined on right)                     o
semkath (unjoined/joined on right)        s
semkath (joined on left/joined on both)   S   (shift-s)
e (unjoined/joined on right)              9
e (joined on left/joined on both)         (   (shift-9)
pe (unjoined/joined on right)             p
pe (joined on left/joined on both)        P   (shift-p)
tsadhe                                    c
qoph (unjoined/joined on right)           q
qoph (joined on left/joined on both)      Q   (shift-q)
rish                                      r
shin (unjoined/joined on right)           4
shin (joined on left/joined on both)      $   (shift-4)
taw                                       t

ptaha (short a, wide character)           a
ptaha (short a, narrow character)         A
ptaha (short a, with lamadh)              0   (zero)
zqapa (long a, wide character)            f
zqapa (long a, narrow character)          F
zqapa (long a, with lamadh)               1   (one)
hbatsa (i, wide character)                i
hbatsa (i, narrow character)              I
hbatsa (i, with lamadh)                   2
rbatsa (e, wide character)                e
rbatsa (e, narrow character)              E
rbatsa (e, with lamadh)                   3
utsatsa (u, wide character)               u
utsatsa (u, narrow character)             U
utsatsa (u, with lamadh)                  6

four dots in diamond                      :   (colon, shift-;)
period                                    .   (period)
raised dot                                &   (ampersand, shift-7)
two diagonal dots                         ;   (semicolon)
two vertical dots                         !   (exclamation point, shift-1)

seyame (wide character)                   8
seyame (narrow character)                 *   (asterisk, shift-8)
seyame (with lamadh)                      ^   (caret, shift-6)
superdot (wide character)                 [   (left bracket)
superdot (narrow character)               {   (left brace, shift-[)
subdot (wide character)                   ]   (right bracket)
subdot (narrow character)                 }   (right brace, shift ])
underline (wide character)                \   (back slash)
underline (narrow character)              |   (virgule, shift-\)
joiner                                    _   (underscore, shift--)
non-breaking space                        7
space                                     space
