Keyboard Map of SPDamascus, a public domain Aramaic/Hebrew font with thin 
letters
Created by: Jimmy Adair, Scholars Press
Last modified: 14 July 1998
Modification 1998JUL14: add dot above for Masoretic abbreviations

Description: SPDamascus 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#Hebrew">
http://purl.org/TC/TC-translit.html#Hebrew</a>) to as great an 
extent as possible, though the vowel points have multiple forms to 
allow for proper placement with wide characters, narrow 
characters, and final kafs (and nuns).

The letters in the SPDamascus font are thinner than those in SP-Tiberian, and 
the font is designed for use in documents in which it is useful to 
differentiate between Hebrew and Aramaic script.  In such documents, 
SPDamascus should be used to render the Aramaic.  In addition to all the 
characters in the SPTiberian font, SPDamascus includes characters to render 
the Palestinian vowel points used in Sperber's _The Bible in Aramaic_. 

The consonants are listed first in alphabetical order, followed by vowel
points and then by other signs.  Please note the distinction between upper
and lower case in "key to push"; all shifted keys are so indicated.  Also,
note that vowels that are designed for wide characters (most letters) are
all unshifted, whereas the corresponding vowels for narrow characters
(gimel, waw, zayin, yod, nun) are shifted.  Vowels that go with the final
kaf (and nun) are mostly mapped to numbers.  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

alef                            )   (shift-0)
bet                             b
gimel                           g
dalet                           d
he                              h
waw                             w
zayin                           z
het                             x
tet                             +   (shift-=)
yod                             y
kaf-initial/medial              k
kaf-final                       K   (shift-k)
lamed                           l
mem-initial/medial              m
mem-final                       M   (shift-m)
nun-initial/medial              n
nun-final                       N   (shift-n)
samek                           s
ayin                            (   (shift-9)
pe-initial/medial               p
pe-final                        P   (shift-p)
tsade-initial/medial            c
tsade-final                     C   (shift-c)
qof                             q
resh                            r
sin/shin (without dot)          #
taw                             t

Tiberian (mostly sub-linear) vowel points

patah (wide char)               a
patah (narrow char)             A   (shift-a) - also furtive patah
qamets (wide char)              f
qamets (narrow char)            F   (shift-f)
qamets (final kaf)              1   (one)
hireq (wide char)               i
hireq (narrow char)             I   (shift-i)
segol (wide char)               e
segol (narrow char)             E
sere (wide char)                '   (single quote)
sere (narrow char)              "   (double quote, shift-')
holem (wide char)               o
holem (narrow char)             O   (shift-o) - also Mas abbrev, number mark
qibbuts (wide char)             u
qibbuts (narrow char)           U   (shift-u)
shewa (wide char)               ;   (semi-colon)
shewa (narrow char)             :   (colon, shift-;)
shewa (final kaf)               7
hatef-patah (wide char)         j
hatef-patah (narrow char)       J   (shift-j)
hatef-segol (wide char)         v
hatef-segol (narrow char)       V   (shift-v)
hatef-qamets (wide char)        /   (forward slash)
hatef-qamets (narrow char)      ?   (shift-/)

Palestinian (super-linear) vowel points

patah/segol (wide char)         0   (zero)
patah/segol (narrow char)       B   (shift-b)
qamets (wide char)              2
qamets (narrow char)            D   (shift-d)
hireq (wide char)               3
hireq (narrow char)             L   (shift-l)
sere (wide char)                4
sere (narrow char)              S   (shift-s)
holem (wide char)               5
holem (narrow char)             X   (shift-x)
qibbuts (wide char)             6
qibbuts (narrow char)           Y   (shift-y)
shewa (wide char)               8
shewa (narrow char)             Z   (shift-z)
hatef-qamets (wide char)        9
hatef-qamets (narrow char)      *   (shift-8)

Other symbols

sin dot                         &   (ampersand, shift-7)
shin dot                        $   (dollar sign, shift-4)
dagesh (wide char)              @   (shift-2) - also mappiq
dagesh (narrow char)            %   (shift-5) - also shureq dot
dagesh (yod)                    ,   (comma)
dagesh (alef)                   ^   (caret, shift-6)
rafe (wide char)                {   (left brace, shift-[)
rafe (narrow char)              }   (right brace, shift-])
maqqef                          -   (hyphen)
sof pasuq                       .   (period)
meteg (wide char)               \   (backslash)
meteg (narrow char)             |   (virgule, shift-\)
dash                            _   (underscore, shift--)
paseq, vertical stroke          !   (exclamation mark, shift-1)
space                           space

Special characters for Masoretic notes

single-word abbreviation        `   (grave accent)
multi-word abbreviation         ~   (tilde, shift-`)
dot above (wide char)           [   (left bracket)
dot above (narrow char)         ]   (right bracket)
circule (wide char)             G   (shift-g)
circule (narrow char)           H   (shift-h)

Special characters for manuscript transcription

sub-linear dot (wide char)      Q   (shift-q) - damaged character
sub-linear dot (narrow char)    W   (shift-w) - damaged character
sub-linear circle (wide char)   R   (shift-r) - uncertain character
sub-linear circle (narrow char) T   (shift-t) - uncertain character
