Power Ge'ez

û¨` Ó°´ 2009

Power Ge'ez 2009™

User's Manual

http://www.conceptsdatasystems.com

© 1998-2008, Concepts Data Systems Private Limited

Company, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Power Ge'ez 2009™ User's Manual

© Concepts Data Systems, Pvt. Ltd. Co.

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................... 1

1.1. FEATURES OF POWER GE'EZ 2009™ ................... 2

2. INSTALLING POWER GASDFE'EZ 2009™ ........ 2

3. UNINSTALLING POWER GE'EZ 2009™ ............. 3

4. NOTE FOR MS-WORD USERS .............................. 4

5. KEYBOARD LANGUAGE/LAYOUT SETTINGS 5

6. USING POWER GE'EZ 2009™ ............................... 5

6.1. STARTING AND EXITING POWER GE'EZ 2009™ ... 5 6.2. TASK BAR ICON .................................................. 6 6.3. POWER GE'EZ 2009 MENU .................................. 7 6.4. SETTINGS DIALOG............................................... 7 6.5. PHONETIC KEYBOARD LAYOUT ........................... 8 6.6. AMHARIC TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD LAYOUT .... 13 6.7. CONVERTING/IMPORTING DOCUMENTS .............. 21 6.8. WORKING WITH NON-POWER GE'EZ FONTS ....... 21 6.9. OTHER PHONETIC KEYBOARD LAYOUTS ........... 22

ABOUT CONCEPTS DATA SYSTEMS PLC ............... 23

MISSION COMPANY DESCRIPTION ................................................... 23 SOME OF OUR PRODUCTS ................................................... 24


© Concepts Data Systems, Pvt. Ltd. Co. 1

1. Introduction

Thank you for using Power Ge'ez 2009™! Power Ge'ez

2009™ is a Windows-based software that allows users to do

word-processing in Ethiopic fonts. The software is designed to

work with all types of Windows applications. Once installed

onto your system, it will reside in memory making itself readily

available to all active Windows applications.

One of the greatest strength of Power Ge'ez 2009™ lies in

its ability to read and convert documents written in different

Ethiopic fonts. In fact, Power Ge'ez 2009™ is the first Ethiopic

software that addressed the question of compatibility with

other Ethiopic software packages. The software is capable of

translating 17 different types of fonts.

Power Ge'ez 2009™ provides two types of keyboard

configurations, namely Phonetic and Typewriter Keyboard

Configuration. The Typewriter Keyboard Configuration emulates

the standard Amharic Typewriter. This keyboard configuration

is made for those users who are familiar with Amharic

Typewriters. Conversely, to use Phonetic Keyboard

Configuration, one does not need to have prior knowledge of

the Amharic Typewriter layout. Users can easily type a given

word just by analyzing its phonetic pronunciation.

The software is compatible with Office 97/2000/XP/2003

and other standard Windows based word-processors. It has

proven to work on Windows 95/98/2000/NT/Me/XP and the

new Windows Vista operating systems. Power Ge'ez 2009™

is a software package easy to understand and can be used by



novices as well as experts. In simple terms, Power Ge'ez

2009™ is the Amharic word-processing companion of your PC

excellent for use at work and home.

1.1. Features of Power Ge'ez 2009™

Automatic fonts recognition.

]Comes with UNICODE and non-UNICODE fonts.

Supports email communication.

It can convert documents written in other Ethiopic fonts.

Supports sorting and searching features.

Emulates the Phonetic Keyboard Layout of Agafari, Alpas,

SAMAWARFA, and Visual Ge'ez. Hence, users who are

familiar with these software packages can easily use

Power Ge'ez 2009™.

Support for all types of UNICODE fonts and Agafari,

AleXEthipian, Alpas, Compose, Ethiopic, Feedel, NCI,

NCI2000, SAMAWARFA, and Visual Ge'ez fonts.

Two installation licenses on one diskette/CD.

Power Ge'ez 2009™ has proven to work on virtually all

Windows applications.

2. Installing Power Ge'ez 2009™

Turn on your computer and get ready to install Power Ge'ez

2009™. Close all programs before running setup. Make

sure your setup license diskette IS NOT WRITE PROETCTED. If

it is write protected remove the write protection tab before you

run setup from Power Ge'ez Setup CD. Your license diskette

has two installation licenses. To move the software from one



PC to the other, uninstall Power Ge'ez . To install Power Ge'ez

2009™ follow these steps

Turn on your PC and start Windows.

Insert License Disk into your 3.5" diskette drive.

Insert Power Ge'ez Setup CD into your CD drive.

Click on START button and select RUN option. Run window

will be activated.

At Run window, type in the following command and press

ENTER:

D:\setup (if setup CD is in drive D:)

After a while, Welcome window will appear on the screen.

Setup program will guide you through the setup process.

At any time you may choose to abort the setup by clicking

on CANCEL button.

At the end, setup program will prompt you if you want to

reset your PC. You must reset your PC in order for the

fonts installed to be active.

3. Uninstalling Power Ge'ez 2009™

To uninstalling Power Ge'ez 2009™ follow these steps,

Insert License Disk into 3.5" disk drive. Make sure setup

diskette is not write-protected.

Click on Uninstall icon. Uninstall program will start to

uninstall Power Ge'ez 2009™ from your PC.

Uninstall program will upgrade number of licenses on your

license disk by one.

Uninstall program will not work if it is run from the DOS

command line prompt.



4. Note For MS-Word Users

MS-Word users must first disable the Auto Correct, AutoText

and Automatic Format features of MS-Word.

To disable these features follow these steps.

From TOOLS menu of MS-Word select AUTO CORRECT. See

Figure-1.

Disable all the AUTO CORRECT options.

Select AUTO FORMAT AS YOU TYPE tab and disable STRAIGHT

QUOTES WITH SMART QUOTES option.

Disable Symbol characters (--) with (-) option.

Disable INTERNET AND NETWORK PATHS WITH HYPERLINKS option.

Select AUTO FORMAT tab and disable SYMBOL CHARACTERS (--)

WITH (-) option.

Disable INTERNET AND NETWORK PATHS WITH HYPERLINKS option.

Disable STRAIGHT QUOTES WITH SMART QUOTES option.

If these features of MS-Word are not disabled, Ethiopic

characters typed may not appear or the wrong Ethiopic

character will be displayed.



5. Keyboard Language/Layout Settings

Users must check if keyboard language/layout settings of your

PC are set to English (United States) - United States 101

mode. To change keyboard language and layout settings follow

these steps,

Start Windows operating system.

Click on Start -> Settings -> Control Panel.

Click on Keyboard icon and select Language tab. Keyboard

Properties screen will appear on the screen.

Make sure the Language is set to English and Keyboard

Layout to United States 101. If it is not, click on Add

button to add United States 101 keyboard layout.

6. Using Power Ge'ez 2009™

This section introduces Power Ge'ez 2009™ graphical interface

and the various tools provided by Power Ge'ez 2009™ to

facilitate its usage. In addition to providing an overview of the

software, this section will take you through a step-by-step

illustration on how to use Power Ge'ez 2009™ efficiently.

6.1. Starting and Exiting Power Ge'ez 2009™

Very Important Note !

Before you start using Power Ge'ez 2009™ the Auto Correct

and Auto Format features of your word-processor must be

disabled. Please read Section 4 before using Power Ge'ez.



Windows loads Power Ge'ez 2009™ into memory automatically

upon startup. As long as Windows operating system is running,

Power Ge'ez 2009™ will be active in the background making

itself readily available for use. Setup program places the

program items of Power Ge'ez 2009™ in an existing program

group or creates a new program group and new program items

for Power Ge'ez 2009. You are then ready to start Power Ge'ez

2009™ from Windows. To start Power Ge'ez 2009™ manually,

follow these steps,

Open Power Ge'ez 2009 program group/folder.

Double click on Power Ge'ez 2009 icon.

To exit from Power Ge'ez 2009™, from Power Ge'ez menu

select Exit Power Ge'ez item or just press Ctrl and "." key

on the numeric keypad.

6.2. Task Bar icon

Upon startup, Power Ge'ez 2009 places an icon on the system

tray. This provides fast and convenient access to Power Ge'ez

2009™. The icon serves three functions:

1. Shows the current keyboard status:- Place the mouse

pointer over the icon; Windows will show the current

status of Power Ge'ez 2009.

2. Helps change keyboard Layout:- Users can go from

English to Phonetic mode just by clicking on the icon on

Windows taskbar.

3. Makes Power Ge'ez 2009™ menu visible:- Position mouse

pointer on icon and click the right mouse button to display

Power Ge'ez 2009™ menu.



Figure 1 – Power Ge'ez 2009™ Icon Shown on Windows Taskbar

6.3. Power Ge'ez 2009 Menu

Settings:- Displays Settings Dialog.

Typewriter Keyboard Image:- Displays Amharic

Typewriter Keyboard Layout.

Help:- Displays online help of Power Ge'ez 2009™.

About Power Ge'ez 2009:- Copyright notice of Power

Ge'ez 2009™.

Exit Power Ge'ez:- Exits from Power Ge'ez 2009.

6.4. Settings Dialog

Phonetic Keyboard Layout Type:- Select the keyboard

layout you want from the combo box. Keyboard layouts of

Power Ge'ez, Agafari, Alpas, SAMAWARFA, and Visual

Geez are supported.

Type of Font to Use:- At the combo box, uses can select

types of fonts that they want to use. By default, it is set

to Power Ge'ez.

Enable/Disable:- Automatic Font recognition.

Yes/No:- Automatically starts Power Ge'ez.

Apply:- Click on APPLY button to save changes.

Close:- Click on CLOSE to close Settings Dialog without

saving the changes.



6.5. Phonetic Keyboard Layout

This keyboard layout is specifically designed for those users not

familiar with conventional Amharic Typewriter layout. Follow

these steps to activate phonetic keyboard layout,

Click on Power Ge'ez 2009™ icon located at Windows

taskbar. The icon will change as shown below.

Figure 2 - Power Ge'ez 2009 Phonetic

Click on the icon again to go into Phonetic UNICODE

mode. When Power Ge'ez is in Phonetic UNICODE mode

users must select Power Ge'ez Unicode font on the word

processor.

Figure 3 - Power Ge'ez 2009 Phonetic Unicode

Users can make use of Power Ge'ez 2009™ short cut key

to change the keyboard layout to phonetic. Just press

"Ctrl+*" short-cut key (Note: "*" key is the key located

on the numeric keypad) to change keyboard layout.



In phonetic keyboard layout, a combination of a consonant and

a vowel produce one Ethiopic character. The combinations are

selected in such a way that the sound produced by the Ethiopic

character and the phonetic pronunciation of the English

characters (consonant and vowel combination) typed is similar.

For example, to type ""D" the user types "kwa". Most of the

characters can be typed in a similar manner. Hence, users can

easily guess the consonant and vowel combination needed to

produce a given Ethiopic character.



u i a y e o

h G G< H> H H@ I J

l K K< K= L K? M KA

H N O N= P N? Q R

m S S< T> T T@ U V

S W W< X> X X@ Y Z

r [ \ ] ^ _ ` a

s c c< c= d c? e f

q k l m n o p q

b u u< u= v u? w x

t } ~ + • ‚ ƒ „

c † ‡ • ‣ ․ ‥ …

n < > @

N < > @  

x ‱ ‱< ‱= ′ ‱? • *

k ″ ″< ″= " ″? ¡ ¢

w ¨ ¬ © ª « ¨<

X ® ®< ¯> ¯ ¯@ ° ±

z ² ²< ²= ³ ²? ´ µ

Z ¶ ÿ ¸ ¹ º » ¼

Y ¾ ¿ À Á Â Ã Ä

d Å Æ Ç= Ç È É Ê

j Ë Ì Í= Í Î Ï Ð

g Ñ Ñ< Ñ> Ò Ñ@ Ó Ô

T Ö Ö< Ö= × Ö? Ø Ù

C Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß à

Table 1 - Phonetic Regular Keystrokes



u i a y e o

P â ã â= ä â? å æ

f ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö

p ø ù ú û ü ý þ

v y y< y= z y? { |

Q1 àG H G: I G;, J K

Table 1 - Continued - Phonetic Regular Keystrokes

The "àG" character is available on Ge'ez-1 Number for non-

UNICODE mode.

u i a y e o

h Ž Ž< Ž> • Ž@ • ‧

H ¤ ¤< ¤= ¥ ¤? ¦ §

s g g< g= h g? i j

t ç è ç= é ç? ê ë

T ì ì< í= í í@ î ï

Table 2 - Phonetic with the CAP LOCK key ON

lwa LD Nw

a

‰ bw

a

vD Cwa á

mw

a

TE zw

a

³D twa … tswa éD

rwa b Zw

a

½ cw

a

• fwa ÷

swa dD dw

a

ÇD nw

a

E vwa zE

sh

wa

hD jwa ÍD Tw

a

×D sft+2 ·

Table 3 - Phonetic Irregular Keystrokes I with CAPS key ON



o i u a e

kw ″A ″C ″B "D £

gw ÑA ÑC ÑB Õ ÑF

qw r kC kB s t

hw ŽA ŽC ŽB ŽE ŽF

Table 4 - Phonetic Irregular Keystrokes II with Caps Key ON

Key Pressed ! ( ) - = = : /

Key

Produced

! ( ) - , , : /

Key Pressed ? . < > , ; - .

Key

Produced

; . # $ ' & -2 .3

Table 5 - Punctuation Characters

Note: When Power Ge'ez is in non-UNICODE mode, the .available on Ge'ez-1 Numbers font. When Power Ge'ez is in

UNICODE mode the above two characters will be available on

all UNICODE fonts.

Key Pressed 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Key Produced 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Table 6 - Keys pressed with the CAPS LOCK key on



Key Pressed 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Key Produced * ) ! V # $ % & W ( [

Table 7 - Ge'ez Numbers

6.6. Amharic Typewriter Keyboard Layout

This keyboard layout is useful for users who are already

familiar with the conventional Amharic typewriter machines.

Follow these steps to activate Amharic Typewriter keyboard

layout,

Click on Power Ge'ez 2009™ icon located at Windows

taskbar until the image changes as shown below.

Figure 4 - Power Ge'ez Typewriter

Click on icon again to go into Typewriter UNICODE mode.

When Power Ge'ez is in TU mode users must select Power

Ge'ez UNICODE font on the word processor.

Figure 5 - Power Ge'ez Typewriter Unicode



Users can make use of Power Ge'ez 2009™ short cut key

to change the keyboard layout to typewriter. Just press

"Ctrl+-" short-cut key (Note: "-" key is the key located

on the numeric keypad) to change keyboard layout.



G M6+G M12+

H

H M10+H

I M4+G

G G< H> H H@ I J

K M6+K M12+K

M3+K M10+K

M M5+K

K K< K= L K? M KA

N M6+N

M12+N

M3+N

M10+N

Q M9+N

N O N= P N? Q R

S M6+S

M12+T

T M10+T

U M9+S

S S< T> T T@ U V

W M6+W

M12+X

X M10+X

Y M7+W

W W< X> X X@ Y Z

[ M7+[ ] ^ M10+[

` M4+`

[ \ ] ^ _ ` a

c M6+c M12+c

M3+c M10+c

e M9+c

c c< c= d c? e f

M1+c M6+g M12+g

M3+g M10+g

M1+e M9+g

g g< g= h g? i j

k M6+k

M12+k

M8+k

M10+k

p M4+k

k l m n o p q

Table 8 - Amharic Typewriter Regular Keystrokes



u M6+u M12+u

M3+u M10+u

w M9+u

u u< u= v u? w x

} M6+}

M12+}

M8+}

M10+}

ƒ M4+}

} ~ + • ‚ ƒ „

† M6+†

M12+†

M8+†

M10+†

M1+ƒ

M4+†

† ‡ • ‣ ․ ‥ …

Ž M6+Ž

M12+Ž

M8+Ž

M10+Ž

M2+Ž

M4+Ž

Ž Ž< Ž> • Ž@ • ‧

M6+ M12+

M10+

M4+

< > @

M1+ M6+ M12+

M1+ M10+

M1+ M4+

< > @  

‱ M6+‱ M12+‱

M3+‱ M10+‱

• M9+‱

‱ ‱< ‱= ′ ‱? • *

″ M6+″ M12+″

M3+″ M10+″

¡ M9+″

″ ″< ″= " ″? ¡ ¢

¤ M6+¤

M12+¤

M3+¤

M10+¤

M1+¡ M9+¤

¤ ¤< ¤= ¥ ¤? ¦ §

Table 8 - Continued - Amharic Typewriter Regular Keystrokes



¨ M12+

¨

M12+ª

ª M10+ª

M6+¨

M8+ª

¨ ¬ © ª « ¨<

® M6+® M12+¯

¯ M10+¯

M2+® M8+®

® ®< ¯> ¯ ¯@ ° ±

² M6+² M12+²

M3+² M10+²

´ M9+²

² ²< ²= ³ ²? ´ µ

¶ M6+¶

M12+¶

M3+¶

M10+¶

M1+´

M9+¶

¶ ÿ ¸ ¹ º » ¼

¾ M6+¾ M11+¾

M8+¾ M5+¾ Ã M4+¾

¾ ¿ À Á Â Ã Ä

Å M6+Ç M12+Ç

Ç M10+Ç

M6+Å

M9+Å

Å Æ Ç= Ç È É Ê

M1+Å

M6+Í M12+Í

M1+Ç M10+Í

M6+Ë

M9+Ë

Ë Ì Í= Í Î Ï Ð

Ñ M6+Ñ M12+Ñ

M8+Ñ M10+Ñ

Ó M2+Ñ

Ñ Ñ< Ñ> Ò Ñ@ Ó Ô




Ö M6+Ö

M12+Ö

M3+Ö

M10+Ö

Ø M9+Ö

Ö Ö< Ö= × Ö? Ø Ù

Ú M6+Ú

M12+Ú

M3+Ú

M5+Ú

ß à

Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß à

M2+ç M6+â M12+â

M3+â M10+â

M2+ê

M9+â

â ã â= ä â? å æ

ç M6+ç M12+ç

M3+ç M10+ç

ê M9+ç

ç è ç= é ç? ê ë

ì M6+ì M12+ì

M3+ì M10+ì

M2+ì M8+ì

ì ì< í= í í@ î ï

ð M7+ð

ò ó M10+ð

õ M4+ð

ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö

ø M6+ø

M12+ø

M8+ø

M10+ø

M1+ø

þ

ø ù ú û ü ý þ

M1+u M6+y M12+y

M3+y M10+y

M1+w

M9+y

y y< y= z y? { |

M1+

d

M6+

à

M12+

à

M8+

à

M10+

à

M1+

g

M4+

à

à1 á àõ â àø ã ä




M5+″ M11+″ M7+″ M7+M12+″ M7+M10+″

″A ″B ″C "D £

M5+k M11+k M7+k M7+M12+k M7+M10+k r kB kC s t

M5+Ñ M11+Ñ M7+Ñ M7+M12+Ñ M7+M10+Ñ ÑA ÑB ÑC Õ ÑF

M5+Ž M11+Ž M7+Ž M7+M12+Ž M7+M10+Ž ŽA ŽB ŽC ŽE ŽF

Table 9 - Amharic Typewriter Irregular Keystrokes I

M7+M12+K LD M7+M12+} … M7+M12+² ³D

M7+M12+T TE M7+M12+† • M7+M12+¶ ½

M1+^ b M7+M12+ E M7+M12+Ö ×D

M7+M12+c dD M7+M1+ ‰ M7+M12+Ú á

M7+M1+c hD M7+M12+Ç ÇD M7+M12+ç éD

M7+M12+u vD M7+M1+Ç ÍD M7+M12+ó ÷

Table 10 - Amharic Typewriter Irregular Keystrokes II

Key Pressed ! ( ) - = = : /

Key Produced ! ( ) - , , : /

Key Pressed ? . < > , ; - .

Key Produced ; . # $ ' & - .

Table 11 - Punctuation Characters



6.7. Converting/Importing documents

Power Ge'ez 2009™ comes with advanced Font conversion

facility. Power Ge'ez 2009™ can read and convert documents

written in different Ethiopic fonts. This increases its

compatibility with other Ethiopic software packages. The

software is capable of translating over 27 different types of

fonts. It supports fonts of Agafari, Alpas, AleXEthiopian,

Compose, Ethiopic, Feedel, NCI, NCI2000, SAMAWARFA, and

Visual Ge'ez. Follow these steps to convert a document written

with a non-Power Ge'ez font to Power Ge'ez font,

Open the non-Power Ge'ez document, i.e. document

written with other Ethiopic Software, on your word-

processor. You will see a text, which is unreadable if font

is not installed on your PC.

Open Power Converter and just click on Convert button.

Power Converter will automatically detect the font with

which the document is written and will convert the

document to the format specified in the CONVERT

DOCUMENT TO box.

The document will be converted on-line.

6.8. Working with non-Power Ge'ez Fonts

If you have fonts of other Ethiopic Software installed in your

PC; you do not need to convert your documents. However, you

may want to use those fonts to do word-processing. Power

Ge'ez 2009™ supports fonts of four other Ethiopic software

packages, namely, Agafari, Alpas, Feedel, NCI, SAMAWARFA,

and Visual Ge'ez. This gives Power Ge'ez the ability to read 27



different types of fonts provided by the above stated software

packages. Power Ge'ez provides a very easy way of using non-

Power Ge'ez fonts. For instance, if you want to use one of

Visual Ge'ez fonts, lets say VG2 Main, follow the these steps,

Set the font on your word-processor to VG2 Main.

From Setting Dialog set Type of font to Use to Visual

Ge'ez.

Now you are ready to do word-processing with VG2 Main

font. Just start typing as you used to do with Power Ge'ez

fonts.

6.9. Other Phonetic Keyboard Layouts

If you are already familiar with Phonetic Keyboard Layout of

Agafari, Alpas, SAMAWARFA or Visual Ge'ez, Power Ge'ez has

good news for you. Power Ge'ez 2009™ provides you with the

option of using Phonetic Keyboard Layout of the above stated

Amharic software packages. For instance, to change Phonetic

Keyboard Layout from the default Power Ge'ez style to Agafari.

From Power Ge'ez Menu select on SETTINGS menu item.

Power Ge'ez Settings Dialog will appear on the screen.

Select Agafari from PHONETIC KEYBOARD LAYOUT TYPE combo

box and then click on APPLY button.

About Concepts Data Systems PLC

Mission

Founded in 1999, Concepts Data Systems is a software

development firm established with a vision of developing state-

of-the-art software products for the local and international

market. Our goal is to be the premier software developer

focused on providing high quality, affordable turnkey solutions.

Company Description

Concepts Data Systems PLC is a software development firm

dedicated in designing and developing quality software

products. We provide state of the art technological services and

software solutions to our clients. Concepts Data Systems PLC is

headquartered in the metropolis of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Concepts Data Systems PLC develops various types of

software products ranging from a complete Management

Information System (MIS) to Computer Telephony Applications.

We are committed to providing high quality products and

services to our clients.

The company is composed of competent software and

electrical engineers with expertise in the areas of software

engineering/design, software development and networking.

Our engineers are experts in various programming languages

including Pure C/C++ programming, Visual C/C++, Visual

Basic, Java and the .NET. We offer the following services:

Software Design and Development

Reengineering of existing applications

Database design and implementation

Web design and development

Network design and Installation

Some of our products

Power Suite™ - is an integrated management information

system (MIS). Power Suite™ is composed of five business

software applications namely, accounting, payroll, stock, fixed

asset and human resource systems.

Power Voice™ - is software based auto-attendant telephone

PBX system. The system can perform standard features of a

PBX and more. It can also completely replace human telephone

operator fully automating your inter office communication.

Power Stock™ - is a complete inventory complete system

specially designed for big warehouses, spare part shops, and

pharmacies. The system can handle sales, expiry date

information, general stock movement, etc.

Power Payroll™ - is a payroll management system developed

to work with the current tax system of Ethiopia.

Power Personnel™ - is a human-resource-management

system.

Power Med™ - is software package specifically designed for

hospitals and small clinics (like dental and eye clinics). The

software keeps track of appointment records, credit and

payment information on each patient.

Power Lib™ - is library management system.

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