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http://www.naijablog.co.uk/2006/11/yoruba-keyboard.html
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Home Readers' Club Member's Login Disclaimer
Yoruba Language capable font with incorporated
simple keyboard input software program
A major objective of Bis Bus International
is the promotion, growth and use of the Yoruba
language in a multimedia format on the World
Wide Web. In pursuance of this goal, Mr. James
Kass in a cooperative effort with Dr. Adebusola
Onayemi released a freeware font -
YorubaOK.ttf sometime ago.
Yoruba School
L M N O Ô P R S ß T U W Y
Yoruba translation of the English
text on the right to follow.
This font, designed for typing Yoruba text on the computer keyboard, makes it possible to render Yoruba in its full acceptable orthographic form - complete with all the characters of its alphabet, accent/diacritic marks inclusive. This font is available for download on our web site - www.learnyoruba.com .
Unlike the regular English language alphabet, typing accented characters or the letter of other languages is usually a tedious process requiring multiple keystroke combinations to produce a single character. This usually involves depressing the Ctrl, Alt and Shift keys in combination with a letter character or a series of numbers which are the assigned ASCII code numbers for that particular "foreign" letter. Moreover, it is also necessary to have a chart of the ASCII code numbers handy or memorize the numbers to type in to produce each special character.
Mr. Kass has recently written a keyboard reconfiguration file for the YorubaOK font. We are delighted to present you with this simple keyboard input program which when used in conjunction with YorubaOK.ttf facilitates the typing process. This does not require the use of cumbersome multiple keystroke combinations, neither does it entail manual remapping of the keyboard or the need to memorize any numbers. On installation of the Yoruba font (YorubaOk.ttf), the keyboard reconfiguration file (YorubaOK.kmx) and the freeware keyboard input software (keyman6-0-164-0.exe), all that is required is to remember the characters of the English alphabet that are not present in the Yoruba alphabet i.e. z, x, c, v and q. ( Incidentally, the letters z, x, c and v are conveniently located contiguously on the keyboard.) These five letters have been programmed with the YorubaOK.kmx file to insert the accent/diacritic marks required to produce the complete character repertoire of the Yoruba language in any text document. You can now type directly into any text editor including your e-mail with this program and input the accent/diacritic marks on the fly.
Here is a summary of how to proceed.
1. Download the YorubaOK.ttf font into a specified folder on your computer.
Go to the Home page of www.learnyoruba.com and Download the YorubaOK.ttf by clicking on YorubaOK font.
Save it to the a folder of your choice.
(The next step to install the file can be done when you go off-line or immediately as you wish)
To do this:
Go to the bottom Task bar of your computer
Click on Start, Control Panel, Fonts
then go to Files
Install New Font
Select the Folder where you saved the font and you will see that there is a file
"YorubaOK (True Type)" in the folder.
Select it and Click "OK"
The YorubaOK Font will be added to the numerous fonts that are already in your computer's Fonts folder.
2. Install it from the folder, so that it now appears as on of the numerous like Arial, Times New Roman, etc.
fonts in your fonts folder
Also, from the Learn Yoruba home page, click on the link: Keyboard
This will bring you to the page that provides the links and explains the steps required to enable you type Yoruba text on your computer.
This is what you need to do
1. Go to http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads and
download the file keyman6-0-164-0.exe to a specified folder on your computer
2. Go to http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/dowloads/keyboards/ and from the list of languages, select Yoruba you will be prompted to download yorubaok.kmx
Go to the folders where you have downloaded the 2 files and install them.
You are now Ready to Type Yoruba Text!!!!
TYPING INSTRUCTION
Load the Tavultesoft keyboard program. (It may be preprogrammed to launch automatically at startup.
Toggle the keyboard profile to "ON"
Set the "Font" to yorubaOK and select the desired font size. You are now ready to begin typing.
To input the accent/diacritics
Type
"c" after the vowels (and m or n ) to input the acute sign ( ' )
"z" to input the grave sign ( ` )
"x" for macron (sometimes required on letters "m" and "n"
"v" for the underbar (preferable to the under dot used when required with the letters "e", "o" and "s".
"q" for the low-rising tone mark ( v )
Use ' Shift + ^ ' for the Naira symbol
Thus
(you need to have installed YorubaOK.ttf to view the following Yoruba text correctly)
Type "e", see an "e"
Type "c" immediately after, see an " é "
Type Ade and then "c" get Adé
Type O "v" ba get Ôba
Type E "zv" ko "cv" get Êkö
Type Is "v" e"cv" get Iÿë
Note: You have to type the "c" or "z" first to insert the accent mark then followed by the "v" for letters requiring the underbar to obtain the desired composite character (i.e type the letter "e" or "o" then "cv" or "zv" as indicated. Putting the "v" first will not work)
English (or other) keyboard can be clicked on or off for entering non-Yoruba passages to the text. For one or two words, in case the user does not want to take the time to toggle, the letters c,q,v,x and z appear correctly if they have a dash typed in first. Thus "Victoria" could be entered as "Vi-ctoria" at the keyboard and it will be stored in the document correctly.
FINALLY
This package, with the exception of the keyboard program (keyman32) from SIL International, was developed by Mr.James Kass with a little help from my humble self. If you find it useful and feel inclined to you may send a short ( or long) thank you note to Mr. Kass at jameskass@worldnet.att.net and visit his web page http://home.att.net/~jameskass/
As for me, A kìí dúpë ara çni
or in our trade mark color code to enhance
recognition of the changing tone in pronounciation
A kìí dúpë ara çni
Visit our website often, e-mail suggestions for improvement, and buy our book and CD –
www.learnyoruba.com/products.htm
Yorùbá
Mõ ön kô, Mõ ön kà
Ìwé Kïnní 1 Book One
Fún àwôn ômôdé Children’s Edition
Please feel free to distribute this program as long as the html sheet – YorubaOK.htm is included.
In summary, the three important download files you need to install are:
1. YorubaOK.ttf
2. YorubaOK.kmx and
3. keyman6-0-164-0.exe
....... and you are in business. You can go ahead and publish your Yoruba book or novel.
Best regards,
Adébùsölá Ônäbàjò Ônäyçmí
GO THERE AND INSTALL!
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"ABD Yoruba" Keyboard Layout
Created On: Oct 27th, 2004
Created By: Bomi Olamijulo-Oki
Now with accented N and Japanese Yen
ABD YORUBA KEYBOARD
Features
Free, Easy Download
Extremely Easy to Use
Unicode Compatible
Send pure Yoruba email to family and friends with Hotmail, Yahoo, MS Outlook
Create MS Word documents in Yoruba, Transfer Yoruba documents via internet, Publish your Yoruba work online
Create, Present, Transfer Yoruba MS Office documents - Works with MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, etc
Type both Yoruba and English with the same keyboard, no need for keyboard switches
Preserves conventional English keyboard use – No need to learn any new key strokes for English characters
Reduced keystrokes by using the Alt Key only to replace AltGr (or Alt + Ctrl)
Right Alt key reserved for most Yoruba functions, Left Alt key remains for English functions
Variations of each character are very close to each other
Can use with a variety of Unicode Compatible fonts, including Arial Unicode MS, Tahoma, Code 2001 and more
- Currently works best with Arial Unicode MS
ENTER ABD YORUBA TUTORIAL
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Yoruba keyboard
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Posted by Jeremy at 10:00 AM
13 comments:
Anonymous, 11:46 AM
I thought you would be interested in this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/11/african_image.html Note the comment from a certain Andrew Fowler who worked in Naija
Anonymous, 1:18 PM
How many websites and indeed documents are out there written in Yoruba to really justify this keyboard?
Anonymous, 2:32 PM
dumb ass statement from chxta. the only way to get more documents in yorubas to provide people with the tools to be able to make them
St Antonym, 2:39 PM
Punds, dollars, euros. Sorted for the Yoruba.
The rest is sauce.
Marin, 2:46 PM
Are you sure this is really a Yoruba keyboard? I do not see a gb or sh, written as an s with a dot underneath.
Anonymous, 4:02 PM
marin,
umm, to type gb you press g and then b... :P
The S with a dot is there, using the S key with the Ng modifier key.
I would love to grab one of these, if they're not made with rubbish keyboards. I remember a few years ago, hearing about a Nigerian PC Assembly company supplying Nigerian keyboards, but I thought at the time this was just a keyboard with a ₦ on it. This is much better.
You would also need a Yoruba Font
Soul, 4:06 PM
ohh I would buy this sharpish..
Considering that Yoruba is spoken in many countries and that the it's such a pain to try inserting symbols into names and documents.
this would be great!
I was actually thinking of this as a pet project for myself.. I'm actually a bit bummed that someone has already come up with it. but happy at the same time.
Marin, 6:09 PM
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naijajams, 7:29 PM
I have this keyboard. As some have pointed out, the gb & sh are not there. You also find unicode support in the popular word processors to be somewhat shaky and most of the popular typefaces to not have the complete unicode character. To make an (S.) I have to make an S & then use the . as a combining character. Microsoft Word has problems rendering this properly...
Here is the link to the actual site:
http://www.konyin.com/
Overwhelmed Naija Babe, 11:00 PM
oh whao.. thats sooo cool
Anonymous, 12:12 AM
Sorry Marin, I hope you realise my remark was facetious.
I know gb is a separate single letter, but is it really necessary to create a single key for the task when the two latin characters are already there? The language of my people uses two latin characters to represent one letter too.
And Naijajams, thanks for the link, I assumed that some sort of driver would be provided with the keyboard in order to make it operate with Windows apps and the Characters/Fonts. Is that not the case?
The method you are describing sounds like a microsoft hack for people with regular keyboards to enter Yoruba characters, making the extra features on this keyboard redundant.
As a linux user I will probably have to get keyboard maps from wazobia linux to use this. It will take more than a fancy keyboard to move me from Debian.
Marin, 12:34 AM
aaron,
you got me there with the gb. I guess that is what happens when one is trying to sneak a comment onto a blog from work 0).
I will not read blogs at work.
I will not read blogs at work.
I will not read blogs at work..........................
learningyoruba, 4:24 PM
So can I ask...how can I get access to such a keyboard? I've been looking for ages!
http://www.naijablog.co.uk/2006/11/yoruba-keyboard.html
A B D E Ç F G GB H I J K
Home Readers' Club Member's Login Disclaimer
Yoruba Language capable font with incorporated
simple keyboard input software program
A major objective of Bis Bus International
is the promotion, growth and use of the Yoruba
language in a multimedia format on the World
Wide Web. In pursuance of this goal, Mr. James
Kass in a cooperative effort with Dr. Adebusola
Onayemi released a freeware font -
YorubaOK.ttf sometime ago.
Yoruba School
L M N O Ô P R S ß T U W Y
Yoruba translation of the English
text on the right to follow.
This font, designed for typing Yoruba text on the computer keyboard, makes it possible to render Yoruba in its full acceptable orthographic form - complete with all the characters of its alphabet, accent/diacritic marks inclusive. This font is available for download on our web site - www.learnyoruba.com .
Unlike the regular English language alphabet, typing accented characters or the letter of other languages is usually a tedious process requiring multiple keystroke combinations to produce a single character. This usually involves depressing the Ctrl, Alt and Shift keys in combination with a letter character or a series of numbers which are the assigned ASCII code numbers for that particular "foreign" letter. Moreover, it is also necessary to have a chart of the ASCII code numbers handy or memorize the numbers to type in to produce each special character.
Mr. Kass has recently written a keyboard reconfiguration file for the YorubaOK font. We are delighted to present you with this simple keyboard input program which when used in conjunction with YorubaOK.ttf facilitates the typing process. This does not require the use of cumbersome multiple keystroke combinations, neither does it entail manual remapping of the keyboard or the need to memorize any numbers. On installation of the Yoruba font (YorubaOk.ttf), the keyboard reconfiguration file (YorubaOK.kmx) and the freeware keyboard input software (keyman6-0-164-0.exe), all that is required is to remember the characters of the English alphabet that are not present in the Yoruba alphabet i.e. z, x, c, v and q. ( Incidentally, the letters z, x, c and v are conveniently located contiguously on the keyboard.) These five letters have been programmed with the YorubaOK.kmx file to insert the accent/diacritic marks required to produce the complete character repertoire of the Yoruba language in any text document. You can now type directly into any text editor including your e-mail with this program and input the accent/diacritic marks on the fly.
Here is a summary of how to proceed.
1. Download the YorubaOK.ttf font into a specified folder on your computer.
Go to the Home page of www.learnyoruba.com and Download the YorubaOK.ttf by clicking on YorubaOK font.
Save it to the a folder of your choice.
(The next step to install the file can be done when you go off-line or immediately as you wish)
To do this:
Go to the bottom Task bar of your computer
Click on Start, Control Panel, Fonts
then go to Files
Install New Font
Select the Folder where you saved the font and you will see that there is a file
"YorubaOK (True Type)" in the folder.
Select it and Click "OK"
The YorubaOK Font will be added to the numerous fonts that are already in your computer's Fonts folder.
2. Install it from the folder, so that it now appears as on of the numerous like Arial, Times New Roman, etc.
fonts in your fonts folder
Also, from the Learn Yoruba home page, click on the link: Keyboard
This will bring you to the page that provides the links and explains the steps required to enable you type Yoruba text on your computer.
This is what you need to do
1. Go to http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads and
download the file keyman6-0-164-0.exe to a specified folder on your computer
2. Go to http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/dowloads/keyboards/ and from the list of languages, select Yoruba you will be prompted to download yorubaok.kmx
Go to the folders where you have downloaded the 2 files and install them.
You are now Ready to Type Yoruba Text!!!!
TYPING INSTRUCTION
Load the Tavultesoft keyboard program. (It may be preprogrammed to launch automatically at startup.
Toggle the keyboard profile to "ON"
Set the "Font" to yorubaOK and select the desired font size. You are now ready to begin typing.
To input the accent/diacritics
Type
"c" after the vowels (and m or n ) to input the acute sign ( ' )
"z" to input the grave sign ( ` )
"x" for macron (sometimes required on letters "m" and "n"
"v" for the underbar (preferable to the under dot used when required with the letters "e", "o" and "s".
"q" for the low-rising tone mark ( v )
Use ' Shift + ^ ' for the Naira symbol
Thus
(you need to have installed YorubaOK.ttf to view the following Yoruba text correctly)
Type "e", see an "e"
Type "c" immediately after, see an " é "
Type Ade and then "c" get Adé
Type O "v" ba get Ôba
Type E "zv" ko "cv" get Êkö
Type Is "v" e"cv" get Iÿë
Note: You have to type the "c" or "z" first to insert the accent mark then followed by the "v" for letters requiring the underbar to obtain the desired composite character (i.e type the letter "e" or "o" then "cv" or "zv" as indicated. Putting the "v" first will not work)
English (or other) keyboard can be clicked on or off for entering non-Yoruba passages to the text. For one or two words, in case the user does not want to take the time to toggle, the letters c,q,v,x and z appear correctly if they have a dash typed in first. Thus "Victoria" could be entered as "Vi-ctoria" at the keyboard and it will be stored in the document correctly.
FINALLY
This package, with the exception of the keyboard program (keyman32) from SIL International, was developed by Mr.James Kass with a little help from my humble self. If you find it useful and feel inclined to you may send a short ( or long) thank you note to Mr. Kass at jameskass@worldnet.att.net and visit his web page http://home.att.net/~jameskass/
As for me, A kìí dúpë ara çni
or in our trade mark color code to enhance
recognition of the changing tone in pronounciation
A kìí dúpë ara çni
Visit our website often, e-mail suggestions for improvement, and buy our book and CD –
www.learnyoruba.com/products.htm
Yorùbá
Mõ ön kô, Mõ ön kà
Ìwé Kïnní 1 Book One
Fún àwôn ômôdé Children’s Edition
Please feel free to distribute this program as long as the html sheet – YorubaOK.htm is included.
In summary, the three important download files you need to install are:
1. YorubaOK.ttf
2. YorubaOK.kmx and
3. keyman6-0-164-0.exe
....... and you are in business. You can go ahead and publish your Yoruba book or novel.
Best regards,
Adébùsölá Ônäbàjò Ônäyçmí
GO THERE AND INSTALL!
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africanPortal
"ABD Yoruba" Keyboard Layout
Created On: Oct 27th, 2004
Created By: Bomi Olamijulo-Oki
Now with accented N and Japanese Yen
ABD YORUBA KEYBOARD
Features
Free, Easy Download
Extremely Easy to Use
Unicode Compatible
Send pure Yoruba email to family and friends with Hotmail, Yahoo, MS Outlook
Create MS Word documents in Yoruba, Transfer Yoruba documents via internet, Publish your Yoruba work online
Create, Present, Transfer Yoruba MS Office documents - Works with MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, etc
Type both Yoruba and English with the same keyboard, no need for keyboard switches
Preserves conventional English keyboard use – No need to learn any new key strokes for English characters
Reduced keystrokes by using the Alt Key only to replace AltGr (or Alt + Ctrl)
Right Alt key reserved for most Yoruba functions, Left Alt key remains for English functions
Variations of each character are very close to each other
Can use with a variety of Unicode Compatible fonts, including Arial Unicode MS, Tahoma, Code 2001 and more
- Currently works best with Arial Unicode MS
ENTER ABD YORUBA TUTORIAL
africanPortal........The World's Portal to Africa!
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Yoruba keyboard
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Posted by Jeremy at 10:00 AM
13 comments:
Anonymous, 11:46 AM
I thought you would be interested in this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/11/african_image.html Note the comment from a certain Andrew Fowler who worked in Naija
Anonymous, 1:18 PM
How many websites and indeed documents are out there written in Yoruba to really justify this keyboard?
Anonymous, 2:32 PM
dumb ass statement from chxta. the only way to get more documents in yorubas to provide people with the tools to be able to make them
St Antonym, 2:39 PM
Punds, dollars, euros. Sorted for the Yoruba.
The rest is sauce.
Marin, 2:46 PM
Are you sure this is really a Yoruba keyboard? I do not see a gb or sh, written as an s with a dot underneath.
Anonymous, 4:02 PM
marin,
umm, to type gb you press g and then b... :P
The S with a dot is there, using the S key with the Ng modifier key.
I would love to grab one of these, if they're not made with rubbish keyboards. I remember a few years ago, hearing about a Nigerian PC Assembly company supplying Nigerian keyboards, but I thought at the time this was just a keyboard with a ₦ on it. This is much better.
You would also need a Yoruba Font
Soul, 4:06 PM
ohh I would buy this sharpish..
Considering that Yoruba is spoken in many countries and that the it's such a pain to try inserting symbols into names and documents.
this would be great!
I was actually thinking of this as a pet project for myself.. I'm actually a bit bummed that someone has already come up with it. but happy at the same time.
Marin, 6:09 PM
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naijajams, 7:29 PM
I have this keyboard. As some have pointed out, the gb & sh are not there. You also find unicode support in the popular word processors to be somewhat shaky and most of the popular typefaces to not have the complete unicode character. To make an (S.) I have to make an S & then use the . as a combining character. Microsoft Word has problems rendering this properly...
Here is the link to the actual site:
http://www.konyin.com/
Overwhelmed Naija Babe, 11:00 PM
oh whao.. thats sooo cool
Anonymous, 12:12 AM
Sorry Marin, I hope you realise my remark was facetious.
I know gb is a separate single letter, but is it really necessary to create a single key for the task when the two latin characters are already there? The language of my people uses two latin characters to represent one letter too.
And Naijajams, thanks for the link, I assumed that some sort of driver would be provided with the keyboard in order to make it operate with Windows apps and the Characters/Fonts. Is that not the case?
The method you are describing sounds like a microsoft hack for people with regular keyboards to enter Yoruba characters, making the extra features on this keyboard redundant.
As a linux user I will probably have to get keyboard maps from wazobia linux to use this. It will take more than a fancy keyboard to move me from Debian.
Marin, 12:34 AM
aaron,
you got me there with the gb. I guess that is what happens when one is trying to sneak a comment onto a blog from work 0).
I will not read blogs at work.
I will not read blogs at work.
I will not read blogs at work..........................
learningyoruba, 4:24 PM
So can I ask...how can I get access to such a keyboard? I've been looking for ages!
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