Nota Bene Keyboard |
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Nota Bene is designed to provide the user with fast and efficient keyboard control. There are many key combinations that allow the experienced user to direct the program from the keyboard rather than with the mouse. The standard Nota Bene keyboard uses standard Windows key assignments such as Ctrl+B for bold or Ctrl+S to save a file. It also maintains most of the original Nota Bene DOS key assignments and it provides many new key assignments that are unique to Nota Bene for Windows.
A number of charts are available to show you the key assignments.
The second two charts (Alt+K and Ctrl+Shift+K) display the currently active keyboard, including any customizations. Lingua users will be able, for example, to see the Hebrew keyboard when Hebrew is active, the Greek keyboard when Greek is active, etc. Characters shown in purple are accents (e.g. in the French keyboard) and characters shown in red are smart characters that change shape depending on their position in a word (e.g. the lowercase sigma in Greek). On the Ctrl+Shift+K diagram, click the Ctrl+Alt radio button to display the characters that will be entered when you press Ctrl+Alt (characters shown on the bottom of each key) or Ctrl+Alt+Shift (characters shown on the top of each key). On the Ctrl+K keyboard, the Ctrl+Alt key assignments are shown below the Normal/Shift key assignments, on the same side dialog bar.
Nota Bene supports alternate keyboards including a XyWrite keyboard and alternate keyboards that use the Roman alphabet including British, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian. The Lingua module adds a number of different keyboards for the Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets.
If the alternate keyboards supplied with the program do not meet your needs, you can create your own customized keyboard with any character (with or without diacritics) assigned to any key.
For more information about Lingua's support for different alphabets, see Alphabets, Languages and Keyboards.
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