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    Unclear Diacritics in Floating Keyboard

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    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Aleph
    • Product Version: 18.01

    Description:
    Floating Keyboard characters are too small to be clearly understandable to cataloger.
    Need a list naming each button or tooltips.

    Resolution:
    The problem that keyboard signs are too small to read can be helped by making changes in font.ini and keyboard.ini.

    In AL500\ALEPHCOM\TAB\FONT.INI, change the current height (default 16) in column 8 to 36. This will make the keyboard characters MUCH larger.
    AlephKeyboard 0000 00FF Tahoma Y N N 36 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    AlephKeyboard 0401 045F Tahoma Y N N 36 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    AlephKeyboard 0384 03CE Tahoma Y N N 36 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    AlephKeyboard 05D0 05EA Tahoma Y N N 36 DEFAULT_CHARSET
    AlephKeyboard 0000 FFFF Arial Unicode MS Y N N 36 DEFAULT_CHARSET

    In C:\AL500\ALEPHCOM\TAB\KEYBOARD.INI change all BtnWidth and BtnHeights to the below values:
    BtnWidth=44
    BtnHeight=40
    This will make the keyboard buttons big enough to display the enlarged letters.

    Restart the GUI.

    More information about the Floating Keyboard is available in the Staff User Guide, Cataloging Section, ALEPH Keyboard.

    Regarding explanations of the keyboard signs:
    Each individual PC has the ability to fully customize both the keyboards that are displayed and their contents.
    The Unicode for all the signs is kept in C:\AL500\ALEPHCOM\TAB\keyboard.txt.

    The default Diacritics keyboard contains the following signs:
    02BB COMMA, MODIFIER LETTER TURNED
    0307 COMBINING DOT ABOVE
    0324 BELOW, COMBINING DIAERESIS
    0310 CANDRABINDU, COMBINING
    0327 CEDILLA, COMBINING
    0301 ACCENT, COMBINING ACUTE
    0308 above, double dot
    0303 COMBINING TILDE
    030C above, v
    0300 Marks, Combining Diacritical
    0302 hat
    0306 greek vrachy
    FE20 Combining Half Marks
    FE21 COMBINING LIGATURE RIGHT HALF
    030B DOUBLE ACUTE ACCENT, COMBINING
    0141 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE
    0307 ABOVE, COMBINING DOT
    0142 L WITH STROKE, LATIN SMALL LETTER
    266A EIGHTH NOTE

    The source for these above "translations" is the http://unicode.org/ site. Most of them came from the http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Index.txt page.
    This would also be a good source for codes if you want to customize your keyboard.

    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013