SIL International is very pleased to announce that Keyman is now completely free and open source! Today, 23 August 2017, we released free versions of the existing Keyman products on the Keyman website, and have simultaneously launched our open source Read more…
As part of the transition to SIL, we’ve moved all the content from blog.tavultesoft.com to this new site, hosted on WordPress.
This is a quick technical note on different ways to activate Keyman Desktop for system administrators. Activation using a command line tool The simplest way is using the command line for kmshell.exe (located in Program Files (x86)TavultesoftKeyman Desktop 8.0): kmshell.exe -activate Read more…
We have many hundreds of keyboard layouts online at keyman.com that cover well over a thousand languages. These keyboard layouts work on Windows, the web, iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets. However, most of the layouts on the website Read more…
This video shows you how you can use Keyman Pro to type in Amharic in any app on your iPhone or iPad. If you have any questions or suggestions, send us an email, or ask on Facebook or Twitter! Read more…
In part 1 of this series, we looked at the steps involved in creating a basic Android app which included a Keyman in-app keyboard. In this post, we’ll work with the second sample included in the Keyman Engine for Android Read more…
Some Keyman users have recently brought to our attention inconsistencies in the appearance of Malayalam text when viewed with different fonts. Although this has become more apparent with the release of new versions of Keyman Desktop and Windows, it is Read more…
Note: You must have a license for Keyman Engine for Android in order to access the resources documented in this blog. (Purchase a license) Keyman Engine for Android allows you to use any Keyman touch keyboard in your Android app, Read more…
This is just a short blog post to describe our in-house tool for creating key images, such as the ones shown below. How to use the key image generator Visit http://keyman.com/support/keytemplate.php Type the key sequence you wish to use, such Read more…
For many years, Keyman Desktop has adapted layouts to work more accurately with European hardware keyboards. For example, a US English keyboard has a top alphabetic row of QWERTYUIOP, but a French keyboard has instead AZERTYUIOP. Keyman makes sure that if, Read more…