A Mnemonic Russian Keyboard Layout (AATSEEL Student)

Version 1.1

for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP (R)

With Accented Vowels (if using enclosed Accented Cyrillic font)

The zipped archive LexBridgeRussianKeboard.zip includes a TrueType
font that can be used for viewing and printing any Web
page or email text in Unicode or Windows Cyrillic encoding. The font is called Accented
Cyrillic because in addition to the standard Russian alphabet it
includes Russian accented vowels for indicating primary stress
(upper and lower case letters) and secondary stress (lower case letters).
Accented vowels are very useful to any learner of Russian because the
placement of stress in Russian words does not follow predictable patterns.

To install font Accented Cyrillic, use the standard procedure for
installing a True Type font. In Windows Vista and Windows 7,
you can right-click the name of each ttf file in this archive and select
Install.

The archive also includes a keyboard mapper compatible with Microsoft
Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 that places Russian letters
on keys that are mnemonic for speakers of English: the Russian letter A
is on the A key, the Russian letter T is on the T key, etc.
This utility will help you type Russian without learning the standard
Russian keyboard layout. It was developed with Microsoft tools and is
safe to use with any Windows application.

This keyboard layout was developed by the American Association of
Teachers of Slavic and European Languages (AATSEEL) and is known
as "AATSEEL Student" (also "Phonetic"). An image provided in this
archive shows the placement of all letters. It may be printed or
incorporated in your desktop background for convenience.
You may also order adhesive keytop labels from http://lexiconbridge.com
and place them on the keys of your physical keyboard.

Our keyboard mapper is just like all those other keyboard definitions
that ship with Windows. To install it, place all files from the
unzipped archive in any empty folder and run setup.exe. Give it
a moment to identify your computer's processor: no progress report
is displayed during this. After a while, Windows Vista and Windows 7 will,
of course, ask your permission to run this "unidentified" program.
Successfull installation will display a notification.

After the installation, you should have the standard Microsoft Language button
in your Windows taskbar (or Language bar), and on it you will see a new Russian
keyboard option. If you already have some other Russian keyboard running,
you'll recognize ours from its description, "Student Academic Russian
Unicode." If it is the only Russian keyboard activated on your computer,
you will only see "Russian (Russia)."

You will not need to go to Regional and Language Options in the Windows
Control Panel--our setup program will take care of that--but if you do, you'll
see this new keyboard there as well. You can use the Remove button in
Languages > Details > Settings to disable our keyboard layout or
the Add button to re-enable it. (That's what these buttons are called in
Windows XP; in later versions of Windows the names may be slightly different.)

The Regional and Language Options applet in Control Panel allows
you to define a way for switching from one language to another by pressing
a combination of keys. This is an alternative to clicking the Language Bar.

To type a vowel with a primary accent, press the "dead" accent key first
(Shifted comma), then release the accent key and tap the vowel key (lower
or upper case). To type a vowel with a secondary accent, press the tilde key
while holding down the right Alt key, then release both keys and tap the vowel key.

The keyboard layout, the character set, and the "dead" key method for typing
accented vowels are the same as those used in Cyrillic Support 2000, so
the customers of Lexicon Bridge Publishers and Fingertip Software should
be familiar with these features.

The Russian character set used by the LexBridge Russian Keyboard is the
standard Cyrillic region of Unicode. The non-standard accented vowels replace
non-Russian Cyrillic characters. We call this the "Academic" version of
Unicode Cyrillic.

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