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User's Guide --Perfect 2.0 for MAC

1. Introduction

“Perfect” Tibetan input software is jointly developed by Department of Computer Science in Jinan University, sponsored and supervised by H. H. Tudeng Nima (Alak Zenkar) Rinpoche. 
Perfect 2.1 comes with 8 optional Tibetan input keymaps, including Himalaya, Banzhida, Monlam, Wylie, Sambhota, Dzongkha, and Symbol, with a phrase input dictionary containing up to 180,000 phrases.

2. Quick Start

1)  Installation: a) Run "uninstall-perfect.app" to uninstall the old version; b) Run ”perfect 2.1.pkg” to install; c) logout to finish installation.
2)  To launch the Perfect input method: Click the input method icon on the upper right of the screen, select "Open Keyboard Preferences " in the drop down menu, then Click the+” button, select “English”, and add your prefered Perfect keymaps from the “Input source”.

3) The input method has two input modes: The “phrase input mode" and the “verbatim input mode", and the “phrase input mode" is default. Select the 设置 Preference for switching among the modes or getting help information.
  

4) In the "phrase input mode", a candidate window will pop-up, use the “Number Key” or the“Enter Key” to select a candidate and, if necessary, use the left or right arrow keys to turn pages,  and use the up or down arrow keys to move up or down in the candidate window.

5) Use the Enter-key to confirm the input result.

3. The Keymaps

3.1 The Wylie Keymap

  • The thirty consonants and the four vowels:

  • Retroflex letters, long vowels and Tibetan numerals:


  • Commonly used punctuations, symbols, marks and signs


Notice that gya is stacked, but g.ya isn’t:
གྱེང gyengགཡེང g.yeng
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས bkra shis bde legs
སྐྱེ skye  སྒོའི sgo’i  བཀྲ་ ཤིས་ཤོག bkra shis shog
Stacks can also be typed by using the plus-sign '+'. The “a” vowel can be omitted. Press the “Enter" key to confirm.
དྷཱི d+hAi ཛམྦྷ dzm+b+h སིདྡྷི sid+d+hi
རྦྷྱོ r+b+h+yo  ཀུམྦྷཎྜེ kum+b+hN+de
ཨརཀྵིཏཱརཾརཱཛཱནཾགྷྣནྟིདོཥཱཿ  ark+ShitArMrAdzAnMg+h+nn+tidoShAH

3.2 The Himalaya Keymap

Five keyboards are provided: "Regular Keyboard", "Shift Keyboard", "m+Shift Keyboard”, and "M Keyboard", as shown in Fig.1-Fig.5.
Notice that the "m+Shift Keyboard” is corresponding to the Microsoft Himalaya "Alt+Ctrl+Shift Keyboard”.

ms Figure 1  The "Regular Keyboard"

ms4Figure 2  The "m Keyboard"

ms1 Figure 3  The "Shift Keyboard"

ms2 Figure 4  The "m+Shift Keyboard"

ms3 Figure 5  The "M Keyboard"

3.3 The Dzongkha Keymap

Four keyboards are provided: "Normal Keyboard", "Shift Keyboard", " ~ Keyboard", and " ~+Shift Keyboard”, as shown in Fig.7-Fig.9.
Notice that the " ~ Keyboard” is corresponding to the Dzongkha "Option Keyboard”, and the " ~+Shift Keyboard” is corresponding to the Dzongkha "Option+Shift Keyboard”.

zk1 Figure 6 The "Normal Keyboard "

zk2 Figure 7  The "Shift Keyboard"

 

zk3 Figure 8 The " ~ Keyboard"

 

zk4 Figure 9  The " ~+Shift Keyboard"

3.4 The Monlam Keymap

In this keymap, the key “a” is used to stack glyphs vertically. For example:
བསྒྲིགས་ bsagarigs

Figure 10  The Monlam TCRC Keyboard

3.5 The Banzhida Keymap

In this keymap, the key “ f ” is used to stack glyphs vertically. For example:
བསྒྲིགས་ psfkfriks

bzd Figure 11 The Banzhida Keyboard

3.6 The Sambhota Keymap1

In this keymap, the key “ f ” is used to stack glyphs vertically. For example:
བསྒྲིགས་ bsfgfrigs

  • The consonants:

  • The vowels:

samb2

  • The symbols

3.7 The Sambhota Keymap2

In this keymap, the key “ h ” is used to stack glyphs vertically. For example:
བསྒྲིགས་ d/hehme/

  • The consonants:

  • The vowels:

samb22

  • The symbols

samb23

3.8 The Symbol Keymap

This keymap includes almost all the Tibetan symbols, punctuations, marks and signs listed in the Unicode table http://unicode-table.com/cn/blocks/tibetan/.

Figure 12 The Symbol Keyboard