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Any order I type the letter and dagesh, this is what happens, looks right to me in the composer screen. I hadn't even noticed it was different than normal, but I can see it now.

בּ ---- letter / + sign
ּב ---- + sign / letter

Here's my 8. It took nearly 4 hours (not in one sitting). This is waaaay too long. How could I work faster? וְהָיָה אמ עָבְדוּ אֵתִי בֶּאֱמֶת וָשָׁמְרוּ אֶת מִצּוֹתַי אֲשֶׁר צַוְּתִי לָהֶם וְאָשׂוּ אֶת אֲשֶׁר אֶת הַתֹּב בְּעֵנַיִּיִם וְשָׁלַחְתִּי עַל הֵם וְעַל־פְּרִי אַדְמָתָם וְיָדְעוּ כִּי אֲנִי ...

I figured it out. Just have to press alt/control + A. Yikes, I had to look at the SIL manual for this keyboard layout.

It's not קַמֶתס under the ע but a chataf patach and I can't create it, I tried typing a patach then a shewa but then it inverts it under the consonant.

How do I get this vowel combination switched around? I can't figure it out. I also can't really understand when it's used.

עְַ (which needs to be inverted) as in מֵעְַבֹדַתַם וְשָׁמַעְתִי אֶת־צַעְַקָתָם

Let's see:

ּב

Aha... got it, it is the + sign. Then I type the ב after it to get this ּב.

אַנִי מִצטַעֵר גֵּ׳ייסוֹן

תֹדַה יֶיִסֹן

It's the same as the alt key. The alt key will add a dagesh to every character that takes it, but it doesn't work on the ב. Even the sample keyboard layout doesn't show it as an option. I'm using the HebrewTH and when I hold option/alt I can do this:

קּשּרּתּעּפּלּכּיּהּגּטּדּסּמּנּוּצאּ but not ב.

Thanks. We had a good class basically pointing the consonants. I have figured out all the basic vowels. The dagesh inside the ב doesn't work, it's supposed to be the option key that adds a dagesh to letters but it doesn't work on the ב. Thoughts?