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 here) 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.
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