Welcome to “Irish Accessories 8” for the Macintosh.
Please read this document through before installation.
What is “Irish Accessories 8”?
“Irish Accessories 8” is a set of extras to make your English-language Macintosh more suitable for use with the Irish language:
• An Irish Keyboard Layout is designed to make it easy to put fadas on vowels,
• Enhanced popular fonts give you a full set of vowels with fadas, for screen and printer,
• Irish Day and Month names allow your Macintosh to generate automatic dates and times in Irish,
• Irish currency and time formats are provided for your convenience.
Open “Irish Accessories 8” to begin installation.
What kind of a system do I need to use “Irish Accessories 8”?
You can install “Irish Accessories 8” on any English-language Macintosh with System 8 or later and a Hard Disk. No modification of your computer or its software is needed, and the keyboard and accessories are available with every application. Documents you produce containing letters with fadas are fully compatible with English-only Macintoshes and with all Apple printers.
Will “Irish Accessories 8” interfere with my Macintosh?
“Irish Accessories 8” does not interfere with the English facilities of your Macintosh, and does not convert your Macintosh into an Irish-only machine – instead, it makes your computer more suitable for Irish-language work. Also, all the extras are optional – you can select and deselect them using standard Control Panels.
WARNING: “Irish Accessories 8” has not been tested on non-English-language Macintoshes.
Is “Irish Accessories 8” free?
“Irish Accessories 8” is Shareware. You can use it for 15 days without charge. After that, you must register it and pay the appropriate fee – see Register Your Shareware below for pricing and registration details.
Installing Irish Accessories 8
WARNING: Before attempting to install Irish Accessories 8, it is VERY IMPORTANT to ensure that your hard disk is free from any defects. To do this, run a disk checking program such as Apple’s ‘Disk First Aid’, provided with your Macintosh. Damage must be repaired before the installation is attempted. If the damage is not repaired before installation, you may lose documents, files and other information stored on your hard disk.
Installation
If you have checked your hard disk (see above), click the Continue button to allow the Installer to continue. There are two variants of Irish Accessories 8 – one for Macintoshes with normal, US-type, keyboards, the other for Macintoshes with UK keyboards. The only difference between these keyboards is the character above ‘3’ on the main keyboard: on a US-type keyboard, the character above ‘3’ is ‘#’, whereas on a UK keyboard, the character above ‘3’ is ‘£’. Choose the package appropriate for your Mac’s keyboard and click the Continue button. The Installer places the enhanced fonts (Monaco, Geneva and New York) in your System file and Fonts Folder as appropriate. Next, it places the Day and Month Names, the Currency and Time Formats and the Irish Keyboard Layout in the System file. Finally, the Installer places a folder called “Irish Accessories 8” on the desktop with this Read Me file and the “Register” registration program in it.
Having completed the installation, you will be required to restart your machine.
Using Irish Accessories 8
Selecting the Irish Keyboard.
You can select the Irish Keyboard by using the “Keyboard” Control Panel. Alternatively, you may have a “Keyboards” menu at the right hand end of the Menu Bar – if so, simply select the Irish keyboard and a shamrock will appear on the Menu Bar confirming your choice.
Using the Keyboard.
(In the following explanation, where you see something like alt-p, it means: hold down the alt key, and, keeping the alt key down, press the ‘p’ key; then release the keys. Similarly, alt-shift-r means: hold down both the alt and the shift keys, and, keeping them down, press the ‘r’ key; then release the keys.)
The Irish Keyboard Layout allows you to put a fada on a vowel simply by holding down the alt or option key while typing the vowel. Thus, for example, alt-i gives í, alt-shift-e gives É, and so on.
All the characters and symbols that are available on English keyboard layouts are available on the Irish keyboard layouts using the same key combinations except for those listed below:
• Fadas or Acute accents
´ All letters with acute accents (i.e. ‘fadas’) are available by holding down the alt key in addition to the normal keys. E.g. á is entered by typing alt-a, É is entered by typing alt-shift-e, etc. For QuickMenus users, capital-ó is available as alt-shift-y.
´ The acute accent itself is available by itself by typing alt-shift-r.
Grave accents
` All letters with graves are now available on a two-key selection: alt-` followed by the letter (i.e. an extension of the UK and US system) .
• Umlaut
¨ All letters with umlauts are now available on a two-key combination: alt-: [i.e. alt-shift-;] followed by the letter (an extension of the UK and US system, but using alt-: instead of option-u, which has become ú. Mnemonic: - ¨ is like a : on its side!)
• Circumflex
^ All letters with circumflex are now available on a two-key combination: alt-^ [i.e. alt-shift-6] followed by the letter (an extension of the UK & US system, but using alt-^ instead of alt-i, which has become í) .
• Tilde
~ All letters with an ~ are now available on a two-key combination: alt-~ [i.e. alt-shift-`] followed by the letter. (Still available on a two-key combination alt-n etc.).
• Others…
°, å, Å These three characters are now combined on a two-key selection starting with alt-k, as follows:
å alt-k followed by a
√Ö alt-k followed by A
° alt-k followed by a space gives just °.
√∏,√ò alt-shift-h and alt-shift-j respectively.
‰ alt-% [i.e. opt-shift-5]
ԨŠalt-shift-f (ligatured fi)
fl alt-shift-g (ligatured fl)
Summarizing, the ‘fadas’ have been put in place, the displaced characters have been moved to other key combinations and all changes are visible in Key Caps.
• QuickMenus users please note that QuickMenus makes use of alt-shift-o for its own purposes, in contravention of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. If you do use QuickMenus, note that capital-ó is also available as alt-shift-y.
Hint: The “Key Caps” Desk Accessory is very useful for locating special characters. If you've never used it, open it and turn on Balloon Help; you'll be surprised!
Selecting Irish Date & Time settings
You can select Irish Date and Time settings using the “Date & Time” Control Panel. If you click on Date Formats or Time Format, you will find “Irish” as a new option – select it to activate the Irish date/time format.
Using Irish Date & Time settings
Once you have selected Irish Date/Time settings, whenever the Macintosh needs to generate a date/time automatically, it will generate an Irish form of it.
Be assured that the underlying date/time information is stored in a language-independent way, and you can change back to the previous form of the date/time without losing any information.
The time format (12 hour with am/pm, etc.) is the same as the British time format, and is provided as a convenience to North American users who may not have a British time layout.
Selecting Irish Currency setting
You can choose the Irish Currency setting using the “Numbers” Control Panel. At present, it is the same as the British currency setting, and is provided as a convenience to North American users who may not have a British currency layout.
The Enhanced Fonts
The screen or bitmap versions of Geneva, Monaco and New York fonts provided with your English-language Macintosh do not have a full set of capital-letter vowels with fadas. The uppercase vowels that don’t have fadas are: capital-á, capital-í, capital-ó and capital-ú. The enhanced fonts supplied with Irish Accessories 8 include these extra characters; they are placed in the System File and Fonts Folder by the Installer.
Register Your Shareware
Irish Accessories 8 is Shareware. You may use it and pay nothing for up to 15 days. After 15 days, you must register your shareware by sending the appropriate fee to Kagi software. Use the program “Register” to make your registration easy.
Irish Accessories 8 has the following pricing:
• 1- 10 single user licenses, $10 per user
• 11+ single user licenses, $8 per user
• A Site License costs $100 (roughly equal to 12 users) and covers all locations for your organization within a 160 kilometer radius of your site (100 miles). One big advantage of a Site License is that you do not need to keep track of how many people at your site are using the software.
• A World-Wide License costs $200 and it covers all locations for your organization on the planet.
Paying for Irish Accessories 8 is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies Irish Accessories 8. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-2YR
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-US$ checks is around US$15 per check and that is just not practical.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi can not invoice your company, you need to act on our behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the payment, the form cannot be processed.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed.
“Irish Accessories 8” is Shareware. You can use it for 15 days without charge. After that, you must register it and pay the appropriate fee – See Register Your Shareware above for more details.
Liability
Use “Irish Accessories 8” at your own risk.
No liability is accepted for any consequences of the use or attempted use of “Irish Accessories 8”.
About This Installer
The installer for this product was created using Installer VISE Lite from MindVision Software. For more information on Installer VISE Lite, contact:
